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It seems to me that conservatism is just fascism with a friendlier face or a type of proto-fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

One way to define fascism is that it's capitalism's self-defense mechanism against the workers organizing, and through this lens you can see conservatism as that self-defense operating "normally" and fascism as it in "crisis mode".