Capitalism is a tool that must be forced to submit to the needs of the nation instead of allowing nations to be enslaved by the needs of capital.
Damn straight. We are seeing the "needs of capital" contributing to the transformation of the republic into a fascist bureaucratic state. The fact that our elections are becoming compromised is part of the overall campaign to place even more power in the hands of corporations in cooperation with the USG, with the big tech outfits in the vanguard, naturally.
Escape the hauntologies of the 20th century. There are no fascists nor communists nor even liberals around. They are all functionally dead ideologies that were peculiar to an era. Using fascist for bad stuff is particularly egregious as it validates the progressive moral framework. You cannot win by positioning yourself as the real antifa.
Well, what would you call the current relationship between the USG and corporations, particularly Big Tech?
I'm not interested in competing with antifa, just with understanding what's happening and finding useful terminology to discuss it.
And understanding the history and definition of "fascism" allows one to discredit antifa as a gaggle of childish armchair neo-Marxists, whether or not any of them are aware of any political ideology.
And if I properly use a term that is misused and abused by the left, or even replace it with an original stipulative definition (like "conspiracy theorist" for one example) how does this "validate the progressive moral framework"?
These are serious questions if you have the time and inclination to reply.
Fascism can only be understood in the context of interwar Italy. It was a direct reaction to the Biennio Rosso, when Italian communists seized factories and territory with machine guns. Various groups, mostly comprised of middle class college students, clashed with the reds and recreated the horrors of WW1 in the streets of Italy. Mussolini was the leader of one such group. He and some friends marched to the King to declare that they could end the violence if they were put in charge, so the King gave them control of the government.
Fascism is a form of managerialism with the explicit goal of opposing communists and advancing the interests of the Italian people. While not antiracist in any form, it is relatively race neutral, which was a major point of disagreement with their German ally. In order to prevent communists gaining control, the fascists set about securing every node of power before the reds could. It is explicitly hierarchical, corporatist and nationalist. Corporatism isn't to be confused with modern corporations, but rather is about organizing people into power blocks according to their societal role, then balancing the interests of those groups with the interests of the nation. This was all permeated with a very particular Catholic flavor.
For better reading on the topic check out Paul Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept, or if you are into YouTube videos Mr Patriarch has a series on it that leans heavily on Gottfried's work.
Damn straight. We are seeing the "needs of capital" contributing to the transformation of the republic into a fascist bureaucratic state. The fact that our elections are becoming compromised is part of the overall campaign to place even more power in the hands of corporations in cooperation with the USG, with the big tech outfits in the vanguard, naturally.
Escape the hauntologies of the 20th century. There are no fascists nor communists nor even liberals around. They are all functionally dead ideologies that were peculiar to an era. Using fascist for bad stuff is particularly egregious as it validates the progressive moral framework. You cannot win by positioning yourself as the real antifa.
Well, what would you call the current relationship between the USG and corporations, particularly Big Tech?
I'm not interested in competing with antifa, just with understanding what's happening and finding useful terminology to discuss it.
And understanding the history and definition of "fascism" allows one to discredit antifa as a gaggle of childish armchair neo-Marxists, whether or not any of them are aware of any political ideology.
And if I properly use a term that is misused and abused by the left, or even replace it with an original stipulative definition (like "conspiracy theorist" for one example) how does this "validate the progressive moral framework"?
These are serious questions if you have the time and inclination to reply.
Fascism can only be understood in the context of interwar Italy. It was a direct reaction to the Biennio Rosso, when Italian communists seized factories and territory with machine guns. Various groups, mostly comprised of middle class college students, clashed with the reds and recreated the horrors of WW1 in the streets of Italy. Mussolini was the leader of one such group. He and some friends marched to the King to declare that they could end the violence if they were put in charge, so the King gave them control of the government.
Fascism is a form of managerialism with the explicit goal of opposing communists and advancing the interests of the Italian people. While not antiracist in any form, it is relatively race neutral, which was a major point of disagreement with their German ally. In order to prevent communists gaining control, the fascists set about securing every node of power before the reds could. It is explicitly hierarchical, corporatist and nationalist. Corporatism isn't to be confused with modern corporations, but rather is about organizing people into power blocks according to their societal role, then balancing the interests of those groups with the interests of the nation. This was all permeated with a very particular Catholic flavor.
For better reading on the topic check out Paul Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept, or if you are into YouTube videos Mr Patriarch has a series on it that leans heavily on Gottfried's work.
So Fascism was a historically contingent movement that ceased to exist with the execution of Mussolini and the destruction of Fascist Italy in WW II.
I can get along with that, but what to do with all the contemporary palaver about "Fascism"? It's meaningless.