Fascism is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon | MR Online
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Unless there is going beyond neo-liberalism, which is necessary for overcoming the crisis it has caused, even a political defeat of the fascistic elements in elections, will only cause a temporary setback to them; they will come back to power again, as Donald Trump has done in the U.S., because the conjuncture that gave rise to their ascent would not have been overcome.
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Ehhh. The pattern of ‘put me in charge because powerless weaklings will ruin civilization if we don’t kill them first’ is at least as old as Rome’s “social war” c.90 BC. Italian states outside Rome demanded equal citizenship and the Empire violently put down that effort.