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.
Rent-seeking politicians exist in any political system. The problem are in the rules of the game.
It‘s a world wide movement from Washington to Tokyo.
No, it’s a first world wide movement from Washington to Tokyo and then you have Russia and India. Bringing up China is probably cheating, but this trend is not apparent in developing democracies as a rule. What we’re looking at here is overripe and/or rotting capitalist societies collapsing on themselves, not magic.
The corrosion of other countries is not much better. Formerly Brazil, Argentina, South-Africa, the Arabian countries (though clad differently), Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldavia, Nepal and thos are the ones that came to mind in the past 3 minutes. All are a bit different to each other and none are outright fascist yet, but some of them are well on their way or have major parts of their population heavily dipping in nationalism
for all the Europeans currently dealing with the rise of fascism, hold strong and never give up hope for a better tomorrow. this problem is worldwide, you’re not alone.
I would also like to provide a message to every European on lemmy that has bashed Americans for not doing enough this year.
you’re not doing enough losers. stop being a bunch of pussies and just stop the fascists! why did you fight all those wars just to let this happen again? don’t blame this shit on us, we don’t run your countries.
you’re not doing enough losers. stop being a bunch of pussies and just stop the fascists! why did you fight all those wars just to let this happen again? don’t blame this shit on us, we don’t run your countries.
Seconded.
His ideal, historian Aram Mattioli writes, was the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire.
Don’t we kind of have that? The countries send their representative to determine the president of the commission. The difference is that the presidency is not for life.
Unlike the past, countries are democracies and don’t receive their legitamacy as a fief. But otherwise we are not too far away.
The largest denominator for progressive movements is the hate of men. Alienating 50% of the population will send them straight into the arms of something else, in this case right-wingers who tell them “we’ll take care of you, you are not at fault, this is a safe space for you, foreigners and queers are to blame”.
If progressives instead made the rich the boogeymen/scapegoats and were a unifying force instead of a divisive force based on multifaceted ideological purity, we’d have a strong counterweight to fascists, nazis, conspiracy theorists, and their ilk. Unite under “Tax Wealth, Not Work” and maybe we can defeat them.
