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[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nazism is a Capitalist response to left wing organization in order to violently suppress it, and ensure the existing ruling class does not lose power.

Well, not exactly. I can see why many of us have this oversimplified view of Fascism (it was my own for a while), but as respectable as our numbers were in the Kingdom of Italy and the Weimar Republic, we were still too minor to ensure a revolution. Rather, preventing capitalism’s collapse by any means necessary—saving it from its own contradictions—was the ruling class’s main motive for institutionalizing Fascism. Listen to this monologue by Michael Parenti or read Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big Business for the details.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Would it be accurate to say that suppressing left wing movements is a part of that defense from its own contradictions, or is that tangential to it?

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

It is part of the defense, yes, because our movements were responsible for achieving the concessions that the Fascists had to undo.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Gotcha. I appreciate the correction on my PoV, that does seem a more complete view of fascism. I had elsewhere described it more as Capitalism in "different circumstances," ie when it needs to be especially brutal to protect itself and pretend that it isn't still Capitalism, and I think that's closer to what you're saying here.

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