• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

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          23 hours ago

          Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

          Every self serving entity desires to accumulate power. The same can be said of anything that serves itself and can last beyond a single generation. A family, a commune, a group of like minded individuals, a business or a corporation, etc.

          The goal should be for the organization to serve it’s membership and for the organization’s membership to include everyone. Capitalism’s values and incentives are inherently self serving. Most capitalist “market theory” assumes, if not requires, self serving participants. Its an inherently self-destructive system.

        • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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          2 days ago

          ‘Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.’ - Benito Mussolini, a founder of fascism.

          Corporations only exist within the capitalist model

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            So Stalin was a corporatist?

            Mussolini was trying to push that particular economic agenda at the time he said that. He is generally credited with being the father of modern fascism, but Mussolini himself waffled between different economic policies as he rose to power and led Italy through WWII.

            You can be a fascist and an oligarch, socialist, communist, capitalist, etc…

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              49 minutes ago

              The soviets did not merge corporate and state power, they abolished the bourgeois state and established a socialist state. The fascist route would have been to support the Provisional Government protecting bourgeois interests.

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              13 hours ago

              I wish liberals would learn that fascism isn’t just a synonym for “thing I don’t like”

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              No, Stalin was a dictator, and authoritarian (like all states are). You’re mixing up facism and authoritarianism maybe?

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        2 days ago

        Uhhh, that is some wild oversimplification

        Like, we’re probably sharing the same sentiment all in all, but shut up