After the fascist and Nazi regimes were defeated in 1945, European post-war historiography largely overlooked right-wing extremism. New research now shows how extremists rebuilt cross-border networks in Europe and the part Switzerland played.
For more depth on the usages of Fascism and it’s history, context etc. see this link about this new book. Facsism" by Princeton History Prof Federico Marcon.
The faster we recognise it, the better we can counter it.
Capitalism is the seed of fascism.
So China is a capitalist government then? Russia?
Now you’re starting to get it.
I don’t think these two things (capitalism and fascism) are related (but China and Russia are fascist governments).
In what way is China fascist?
Capitalism inevitably evolves to fascism, Adam Smith knew it, I know it, eventually this generation will learn it too, the hard way.
It’s greed that fuels it. Capitalism first becomes ‘capitalism’ which in turn becomes some sort of oligarchy until there is only a central wealthy and powerful entity and ultimately it’s just a single wealthy autocrat ruling everybody.
Just because every fascist country was a capitalistic country doesn’t mean that it needs to be that way or that that evolution is inevitable. By the same line of logic you could argue that communism leads to autharianism, which happened at least most of the time, but I’d argue it’s not inevitable.
It’s the worst in mankind that leads to fascism but inherently it’s in and outgroup behaviour routed in insecurity and alienation that is the cause of that thinking.
There are several examples of socialist countries that became fascist because of cspitalism. Read a bit about 9/11, the most tragic one, and you start seeing a pattern of contagion.
Unregulated capitalism maybe but that’s why you should set up regulations
Are those “regulations” in the room with us right now?
I mean that’s the problem lol
Rent-seeking politicians exist in any political system. The problem are in the rules of the game.
@atcorebcor “rent-seeking”? Show me One politician who pays rent.
Any politician who has been “regulatorily captured”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Joseph Stiglitz have made a convincing argument that inequality can entirely be explained by rents. That without rents (coming from monopoly power, companies influencing politics, private ownership of land) we will not see rising inequality. Which suggests that we can prevent excessive inequality with anti trust laws, land value taxes, and heavier protections against political regulatory capture.