• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    Thats no excuse not to vote and enable fascism. That lead to there never being free elections again so 0 chance to improve things.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Our elections were never going to change things. Losing electoralism isn’t great don’t get me wrong but when the only people you can reasonably get elected are presented to you by the owning class it isn’t a free election.

      There is a reason we call so many problems “systemic”

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        9 days ago

        The US is just an oligarchy. Most political scientists agree these days.

        It might not be Russia-levels of oligarchy, but it’s trending that way.

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              8 days ago

              I do think calling Capitalism’s end stage as “oligarchy” gets in the way of depicting the very real tie to its eventual collapse that comes from this centralization, though.

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      8 days ago

      Fascism is Capitalism in decay, it can’t be stopped at the ballot box. I highly recommend reading theory, it can help make sense of our modern world. I made an intro to Marxism reading list that you can check out, the second work listed Blackshirts and Reds goes over the historical causes, aims, and reasons for fascism in the first chapter.