• @CybertoothTiger
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    22 months ago

    Not contradicting, trying to learn here. How is it a feature of capitalism, and not fascism? Or are the two similar enough they can effectively be put in the same group?

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      62 months ago

      Fascism is Capitalism in decline. They aren’t distinct systems, but the same one meshed.

      • @mrcleanup
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        02 months ago

        Eh … capitalism is an economic model, fascism is political. One may enable or encourage the other, but I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say they are the same.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          42 months ago

          What causes fascism to rise or fall? Whose interests does it serve? The economy is political, politics are economic in nature, you cannot divorce the two.

          • @mrcleanup
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            12 months ago

            That’s like saying that since you never see deer ticks except with deer, they are the same animal as the deer. Just because things commonly appear together does not mean they are the same.

            • Cowbee [he/him]
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              42 months ago

              No, it isn’t. The economy forms the Base, while politics forms the Superstructure. You cannot have one without the other, and they are tangled.

              • @mrcleanup
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                12 months ago

                Thanks for sharing that picture of two different things in your attempt to argue that they are one thing.

                  • @mrcleanup
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                    12 months ago

                    That… Is a completely different argument.