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> end up in de facto fascism I’m going to need to know what definition of fascism you’re using here.

• ethbr0 4y ago
  "[...] an authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."
  • comte7092 4y ago
    It is a stretch to call those states “de facto fascist” under that definition. Particularly under these points: > belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race It seems more so that you are reducing facism down to authoritarianism, and therefore authoritarian communist states share behaviors in common with authoritarian fascist states. However, the notion that authoritarianism resembles authoritarianism isn’t particularly notable.
    • ethbr0 4y ago
      At least Russia (Russian), China (Han), and Burma have looong had very serious racial superiority concepts encoded into their governments. North Korea and Juche are a bit of a weird case. And Cuba and Vietnam were very multi-ethnic or tolerant to start.
  • borroka 4y ago
    Strangely, "corporatism", a distinctive feature of Fascism, is not stated in that definition of Fascism.