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After reading this piece I was wondering if there were any examples of a fascist state that were deposed by peace, or whether armed conflict is now inevitable.
by jay_kyburz 9mo ago
After reading this piece I was wondering if there were any examples of a fascist state that were deposed by peace, or whether armed conflict is now inevitable.
- freitasm 9mo agoThere are few, Spain's King Juan Carlos I being crowned king after Francisco Franco's death, and Chile's Pinochet leaving power after the 1988 referendum for example.
- ks2048 9mo agoIf 15 years of dictatorship is one of the few positive examples, that is not a good sign.
- card_zero 9mo agoWell how many examples have there been anyway? Maybe six, under a range of definitions? Besides, historicism (inevitabilism) is wrong.
- jay_kyburz 9mo agoI agree, and I wish I was able to delete the post. I thought afterwards the question itself is a little poor taste.
- karmakurtisaani 9mo agoI think Spain transitioned from fascist dictatorship to democracy relatively peacefully.
- kh_hk 9mo agoPortugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution