• alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    For those who don’t seem to get it:
    No, this meme does not mean that you can’t temporarily halt fascist electoral victory, but rather that fighting symptoms and portraying that as a “victory over fascism” completely disregard the root cause (as liberalism often does)…

    Tho I’m ngl, the NFP seems to be pretty based, at least relative to the usual neolib bs

    ie.: Fascism is a built-in function of capitalism and thus bourgeois “democracy”. Capitalism turns to fascism when threatened, so as long as you aren’t ready to give up the private ownership of the economy, you will not be able to get rid of fascism (paraphrasing Bertolt Brecht here)

    sheesh, I often forget, that libs and revisionists actually believe in bourgeois democracy. If you are open to changing your mind I can recommend “Reform or Revolution” by Rosa Luxenburg

    EDIT: @trolololol@lemmy.world made me aware of an ebook-specific link

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        1 year ago

        Fascism is a weed and power is a vacuum. It’s always going to crop back up and we stop it with any means necessary.

        Unfortunately for the US, we’re kinda fucked and being pushed towards the more extreme removal methods.

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          1 year ago

          At some point one has to wonder why that weed finds such fertile ground to grow instead of spending all their time weeding.

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        1 year ago

        We know that fighting fascism requires constant vigilance. But you don’t have to be an asshole about it. Nor do you have to shit on a country’s electorate for, you know, doing the right thing and voting against fascism.

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          doing the right thing and voting against fascism.

          You can’t vote against fascism. The French fascists are still there, gaining power - the voting didn’t weaken them in any way whatsoever. And they’ll keep on gaining strength until they figure out how to get into power despite so-called “liberal democracy.”

          All the voting in the world isn’t going to change that.