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pbow's avatar

Only "right wingers" can be fascists?

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Jerome's avatar

Fascism is the marriage of corporatism and the state. Corporations own the state under fascism. The traditional left vision is of common ownership of the means of production, or socialism, or economic democracy, or any form of workers' power that involves expropriating the stolen billions from our overlords and using those resources for the common good. Under fascism, billionaires own the economy and we are all serfs. That is right wing, and what Rockefeller, Gates, Zuckerberg et al are all about. The goal of the Great Reset is to stabilize billionaire ownership of the economy, while spouting nonsensical platitudes about equality and the like for the serfs. To call these billionaire fascists "left" is simply nonsensical. They are not planning to redistribute their wealth to the lower 99.9%, nor are they planning to meet human needs with their wealth. Instead, they want to exterminate the working class and grind whoever remains under their boots.

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Eric Brown's avatar

And, of course, the first thing that Lenin, Mao, Ortega, Chavez, Maduro, etc, etc, etc, did was to redistribute the wealth to the peasants.

Right.

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

They would consider THEMSELVES left, as they are socially liberal oligarchs who use the gullible leftist masses to further their own gains, just as the Republican oligarchs do.

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Professor's avatar

Corporations can own the state in socialism too and in the extreme example one corporation owns the state. The political spectrum is not a left/right line. It's more like a circle and at a certain point Fascism and Communism meet. They have more in common than differences.

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