lol, I've been openly rightist my entire time on this site. You must be new here. Imagine thinking people who speak highly of Franco/Mussolini would be lefties.
yeah went back and clearly you aren't antifa. So my bad on that. Still, a massively bloated state taking control and coercing the populace? Feels pretty damn lefty to me
Fascism is a tool of control wielded by every dictator using the state in history. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, all fit the definition of fascism, which is a convoluted definition because every retard fights over it, but put simply : everything within the state.
unironically, a theocratic monarchy would be better than the hopelessly corrupt "liberal democratic" republics we have right now.
I appreciate you investigating me to make sure you have accurate information, though I'd like to note that there is no one "Fascist text" like there would be historically with Communism (Stalin/Pol Pot/Mao types) all reading Marx. Fascism historically would really be a rightist movement which usually comes to be in response to Communism. However, it's going to vary from country to country and head of state to head of state. Hitler isn't Mussolini, he's not Franco, and he's not Pinochet or Salazar. For example, Mussolini was syndicalist, though not socialist. Pinochet was explicitly capitalist.
It's very interesting, I think a lot of it comes down to the American view that a strong centralized authority is inherently left wing. Which you do see in communism and also leftist in the US regularly pushing for a stronger federal government. Where as the right usually pushes for more autonomy at the state level.
Slow news day, it happens.
I'll make a comparison where there was overlap in historical Communist/Fascist countries from the POV of your average American voter:
It feels that way because you're American.
"You only have to depose 1 guy" is, as history shows, a lot harder than it sounds. Theocratic monarchy just doesn't fit in todays age, there's too much information out there for one religion to take over sharia style.
US markets were up ~1.5%; the S&P500 is on its longest win streak in 20 years. We could all channel John Badman and invent reasons why this is evidence Trump's presidency is a disaster.
Democracy is no longer a tool in Germany. It is a institution. A cathedral. Only the clean and worthy are allowed in. The exact opposite of what Democracy was supposed to afford. A voice for its citizens. Not just for the few. Glad Rubio yelled at them.
>the implication of this statement being Karl Marx and the French Jacobins he looked up to were right wing
Or, fascism is left wing.Which is much more elegant
hard, but not impossible. has there ever been a republic that didn't become corrupt and then have to completely fucking die (usually by a strongman's hand) to fix it?
maybe, maybe not. i would argue that "woke materialistic individualism" operates very much like a religion and liberal democracy is just the political system that it created.
