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07-09-2020, 03:10 PM | #6631 (permalink) |
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It's fine to be concerned about moving toward fascism or dictatorship but that doesn't mean that's what currently exists.
I probably wouldn't even bother to call that characterisation out if you were just speaking colloquially the way modern leftists refer to anything racist or with an authoritarian undertone to it as fascist, but you started this out insisting on some sort of technical textbook definition being applied. |
07-09-2020, 03:11 PM | #6632 (permalink) |
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We’re about halfway to an autocracy. Is that fair?
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07-09-2020, 03:25 PM | #6633 (permalink) | ||
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https://www.musicbanter.com/games-li...u-fascist.html
if you guys desperately want to discuss fascism why not do it the fun way
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07-09-2020, 03:29 PM | #6634 (permalink) | |
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This is the fun way, what are you talking about?
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07-09-2020, 03:34 PM | #6635 (permalink) |
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In terms of functional power I honestly don't know tbh.
I basically see Trump as an autocrat at heart who has yet to figure out how to actually seize the power he would need to get the job done. And I don't think he will figure it out before he's out of office if I had to guess. But yeah, it's plausible somebody will eventually do so. |
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Oh sieg heill no.
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07-09-2020, 03:50 PM | #6638 (permalink) |
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But did classism exist in the Soviet Union? For sure. Just look at how the average Soviet Citizen lived compared to guys like Stalin and Kruschchev. While the proletariat, long after the revolution, labored all day in factories during the summer, Stalin would be taking vacations to one of his many dachas. Do you think that high-ranking members of the politburo generally used their political power to benevolently help the Soviet citizens or do you think they used it to enrich themselves? I don't know how familiar you are with Soviet history, but class and race most certainly played a consequential role. Antisemitism was most prominent under Stailn, who used the fact that Trotsky was a Jew to persecute other Jews. This wasn't always done openly, as the Soviets were aware of the bad optics internationally were this to become well-known, but they couched these policies under terms like "Anti-Zionism" (rather than antisemitism). They also appropriated words like "cosmopolitan" and "Bourgeoisie" as codes for Jews (these words did not always refer to Jews throughout Soviet history). For a concrete example of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union, look up the Doctor's plot if you've never heard of it, in which the government accused some high level Jewish doctors of concocting a plot to assassinate Soviet leaders. The Soviet government used this bull**** story to persecute, torture, and put Jewish people through show trials. As for class - during the early 30s, the Soviet process of collectivization contained a policy of 'dekulakization' in which the 'kulaks' (peasant owners) were targeted for liquidation as a class. These people weren't rich, they simply owned a few more acres of property and a few more cows than the average peasant. Some were sent to the gulags, others were relocated. If the definition of fascism includes dictatorships that exercise extreme central authority to persecute people based on class or race, I'd say the Soviet Union was a textbook definition of a fascist regime. I'd certainly say that your definition of fascism would include the Soviet Union, and I'd be interested in your reasons if you disagree. That said, the Stalin-led USSR was much different from the Gorbachev-led USSR. I could easily see a case being made that while the Stalin-led USSR was fascist, the Gorbachev-led (or perhaps even the Krushchev-led or Brezhnev-led) one was not. While you might be able to make the case that their initial revolution was based wholly or in-part on the teachings of Marx, which had specific outlines and goals which may not qualify as fascist, the reality of what the Soviet Union became, what actions the government took, and what policies they subscribed to was much, much different. Likewise, I'd agree with jwb that your definition of fascism does not apply to the modern USA (yet). Quote:
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