Hot take:
Nazis weren't fascist. Fascism is just as misunderstood and mislabeled as Marxism. The only thing the modern american right like about fascism is the race aspect of it. Fascism is very communitarian based with an emphasis on traditional values and racial preservation
Fascism isn't inherently authoritarian or violent. It also doesn't require the elimination of other races, merely the separation. Most actual fascists don't wish no I'll will toward other races, merely their separation.
We as leftist should appose this ideology because it's..
..based on races viewed as different and cultivates a sense of division and ultimately superiority based on no real evidence. We as humans are essentially the same and our real difference are based on culture and class. Fascism leads to conflict on a racial level if not..
..properly maintained and educationally upkept. The issue is also that once societies have mixed and certain groups (white) have used others (non white) to far exceed other nations or people's, the issue of just "sperating by race" doesn't work on an equal level, resulting in..
The divide between races to grow larger and be starting their new nations on unequal footings. This would be unethical and unfair to those that were exploited by others without receiving any type of compensation. This gal would then lead to further issues of superiority and..
Mistreatment between groups. Then as these nations grow, resources will become more contested and the otherization of each other would make it very easy to start conflict and genocide moving forward. This ideology in it's pure state with it's actual values isn't very bad to..
..start, but the ease that it presents to future conflict and injustice is not a gamble we should allow. We need to accurately call out fascists and bring them over to the left, they are a caring people that want the best for their own and their view needs to be expanded.
We also must not conflate the modern neoliberal with actual fascists as it conflates the two and makes neoliberalism more appealing and excuses it's violent and alienated nature. Capitalism is the cause of this alienation and the responses to that are Marxism and fascism. If we..
..allow the capitalists/neoliberals to move to the side of fascism or Marxism without any critique or by improperly labeling them, it becomes so much worse. Nazis weren't fascists just like the soviet union wasn't Marxist. They were totalitarians using two systems of unity to..
..exploit people into doing anything in the name of progress. Fascism is bad because it's inefficient and illogical and doesn't work long term. It also grows the inequality of class AND race leaving the most marginalized and vulnerable at a massive disadvantage..
The point of this thread is to understand the opposing view, why they feel the way they do, and prevent it from warping ours and others perception of what we are against. Capitalism is always the enemy, don't let it change its name, don't let it infect and warp any movement.
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