• db2@sopuli.xyz
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    Capitalism is financial, fascism is political. They can be concurrently implemented.

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    I need to make a bot to post this any time fascism gets mentioned.


    The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism (practiced by the US, Canada, UK, Australia, France, the Netherlands, etc): bourgeois parliamentarism.

    British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially “becoming british colonialists.” They haven’t changed, and their wealth is still propped up by surplus value theft from the super-exploitation of hundreds of millions of low-paid global south proletarians.

    This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.

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      Fascism was a form of colonialism

      Wow what an utterly ridiculous statement. No wonder it came from lemmygrad.

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        Are you joking? Every scholar of Fascism will tell you that Fascist Italy inherited numerous colonies from the prefascist period: the Dodecanese Islands, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and arguably a portion of Tianjin, and later Fascist Italy added Fiume in 1924 and Albania, Ethiopia, and Tavolara in the 1930s. The very expression ‘mutilated victory’ was quickly adopted by the Fascists because they were outraged that the Kingdom of Italy didn’t gain more territory from World War I. Did you seriously not know this?

        From the Dodecanese Islands to Libya, to Eritrea, the Italian state’s colonial holdings were testing grounds for strategies of governance and repression that would characterize [Fascist] domestic and occupied territories during World War II.13

        (Source.)

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    Capitalism juxtaposes socialism/communism. Authoritarian juxtaposes anarchy.

    Also, I think that most nations become a bit more facist when times get hard.

    Edit: THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE AND SO IS THIS DIAGRAM

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      Over 11,000 people died last week because of a cyclone, and they are investigating hundreds of deaths in phoenix from the heat.