Fascism is the merger of the state and corporate power including the destruction of unions and labor power. Mussolini, the inventor of fascism as ideology, entirely disagrees with you and killed all socialists and communists
The Nazis legit purged the Strasserists as soon as they got into power. it’s crazy how the whole “we are socialists actually” propaganda they used before 1933 still works to this day
An ideology that seeks to empower corporate interests and reinforce unequal class structure (fascism) and an ideology that seeks to destroy capitalists and empower workers and create a classless society (communism) are not close to being the same thing. They are in fact, opposites
thinking about the term "cartels" as it relates to state/corporate bedfellows; that's how Germany under the Nazis functioned and uh, there's some connectivity to how the US designed its public/private dynamic after WW2.
communism CAN be the opposite to fascism, but imo communism is just an end goal and it could be that we try to get there through authoritarian or libertarian socialism. I prefer libertarian socialism since it's more representative of the will of the people. you have to be specific about the method
Individualism cannot resolve the collective problem. To win a program of socialism requires political unity developed from class consciousness. The masses must work together for the collective benefit. There are those who will not willingly abandon individualism and ultimately greed.
who said anything about individualism? anarchism has been misunderstood to mean chaos and selfishness bc of right wing propaganda but the leftist understanding of anarchism is much different. it overlaps with the collective class consciousness you mentioned, although maybe not political unity
That’s why communists kill Nazis and Nazis kill communists. The ideology that is more compatible with fascism is liberalism as they join in their anti communist mission and empower corporations and believe in individual rights over collective rights
A liberalism that is slaved to capital is a liberalism that is slaved to fascism and it’s gonna be really interesting to see if anyone notices which side actually shares there supposed “values” lmao
I take issue with the individual rights framing as a fascist ideal. Fascists aren't in favor of individual freedom, if anything they're the most anti individual freedom one can be. They're in favor of corporate freedom, capitalist freedom, dominant class freedom.
Individual freedom is sexual freedom, religious freedom (or freedom from religion), financial freedom. None of which are fascists ideals, on the contrary. Fascists oppose all types of freedom that lie outside their heavy moral policing.
The only type of "freedom" fascists defend is the freedom for the ingroup to dominate the out group, which I guess becomes the the most individual freedom in the end, since the ingroup always shrinks back into one single individual, the fuhrer.
sorry i don't have any class consciousness so i don't actually know or understand a difference between the worker and the capital owners because I've been led to believe through merit alone, i can become the latter
I would love to return to the times of my people, the indigenous people of what we call turtle Island y’all call America! We didn’t have the white man’s mentality because it wasn’t run has a country collective, ruling everyone!
the kinds of people who use "fascist" to mean "generic bad thing" also use "Nazi" to mean "generic bad thing," ignoring that both those terms refer to specific worldviews and policy priorities
one thing fascists and Nazis aren't is "communist"
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~Benito Mussolini
sentiment still holds imo but kinda wild it can’t be properly traced to anything given how frequently i’ve seen it repeated
one thing fascists and Nazis aren't is "communist"