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Actually, what we have now in the US is full blown fascism, which technically means the government and corporations together in a "fasces," a bundle of sticks.
by cpr 10y ago
Actually, what we have now in the US is full blown fascism, which technically means the government and corporations together in a "fasces," a bundle of sticks.
Calls for caution in the face of the madness of our current immigration and essentially open borders, and for taking radical Islamism seriously, don't amount to anything like fascism.
- tdb7893 10y agoWikipedia has different definitions (example below). I don’t know where you get your definition from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism “a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism”
- frabbit 10y agohttp://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Antonio%20Gramsci/1924/11/democracy_fascism.htm http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Antonio%20Gramsci/1924/11/dem... "[F]ascism and democracy are two aspects of a single reality, two different forms of a single activity: the activity which the bourgeois class carries out to halt the proletarian class on its path[.]"
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYeah, well, I'll actually believe Wikipedia over Gramsci on the question of what Fascism is...
- frabbit 10y agoYeah, no point straining yourself by reading an analysis by someone who was actually around at the time and locked up by the fascists for opposing them. After all, you have your part to play in maintaining the hegemony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci#Imprisonment_and_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci#Imprisonment_a...
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYeah, but Gramsci is not an unbiased observer. He's going to have a very ideologically biased view of many things, fascism among them.