• pigginz@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Prolekult has a video on fascism I watched just a few days ago that I thought made a fairly good case that the USA is not actually fascist. Fascistic in some ways certainly, and with the possibility to become fascist, but still very much just a liberal “democracy”. But don’t underestimate the amount and intensity of violence and horror that can be perpetrated by liberal democracies.

    Of course this was more of a historical materialist analysis. For the purpose of memeing and shitting on libs for whom “thing I don’t like = fascism”, it’s close enough to correct.

  • deconstruct@lemm.ee
    519·
    1 year ago

    Is this supposed to be propaganda? Or just a joke? I’m baffled by your point.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
      143·
      1 year ago

      Instead of being baffled go read into similarities (and oh boy there’s a lot!) between the third Reich and US empire. A good place to start is the Nuremberg laws compared to Jim Crow laws.

      • deconstruct@lemm.ee
        18·
        1 year ago

        I know all about that stuff. The inspiration for German eugenics laws came from the US, anti-semitism in the US prior to WWI, etc.

        Posting this “meme” without any context then don’t be surprised when noone takes the argument seriously.

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlM
      10·
      1 year ago

      The US committed a genocide and got away with it, the nazis attempted and failed at it. The concept of lebensraum is just the nazi equivalent of manifest destiny. Hitler says as much that he wants to emulate the US model of settler colonialism, in mein kampf.

      So the only real difference between bourgeois democracy as a form of government, is that its much better at genocide than fascism was.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      318·
      1 year ago

      Don’t even try. These people have their own set of brain worms. They want to live under the exact kind of authoritarian regime that the Nazis were, just only if it calls itself communist