• swlabr@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    Currently, I think (right-)libertarianism is a subset of fascism. In short:

    • Libertarians believe that people with more capital are inherently better than others and deserve all the power in society.
    • Fascists, in the abstract, believe that their ingroup is inherently better than the outgroup and deserves all power in society.
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      1 year ago

      Both groups exalt the dictatorship of the market and ownership class and see it as simply the just enforcement of The Natural Order via survival of the fittest.

      You can’t have naked market capitalism and violent enforcement of private property restrictions without it being the groundwork for proto-fascism, IMO.

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        1 year ago

        Symbolically speaking nazi germany was by and large eaten/def”eat”ed by the bear of Asia AKA the soviet union, so there’s that too