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And the supposed left wing parties (social democrats in name) didn't do left wing policies.
Capitalism is the seed of fascism.
So China is a capitalist government then? Russia?
Now you're starting to get it.
I don't think these two things (capitalism and fascism) are related (but China and Russia are fascist governments).
In what way is China fascist?
Capitalism inevitably evolves to fascism, Adam Smith knew it, I know it, eventually this generation will learn it too, the hard way.
It's greed that fuels it. Capitalism first becomes 'capitalism' which in turn becomes some sort of oligarchy until there is only a central wealthy and powerful entity and ultimately it's just a single wealthy autocrat ruling everybody.
Just because every fascist country was a capitalistic country doesn't mean that it needs to be that way or that that evolution is inevitable. By the same line of logic you could argue that communism leads to autharianism, which happened at least most of the time, but I'd argue it's not inevitable.
It's the worst in mankind that leads to fascism but inherently it's in and outgroup behaviour routed in insecurity and alienation that is the cause of that thinking.
There are several examples of socialist countries that became fascist because of cspitalism. Read a bit about 9/11, the most tragic one, and you start seeing a pattern of contagion.
Unregulated capitalism maybe but that's why you should set up regulations
Are those "regulations" in the room with us right now?
I mean that's the problem lol
Rent-seeking politicians exist in any political system. The problem are in the rules of the game.
@atcorebcor “rent-seeking”? Show me One politician who pays rent.
Any politician who has been “regulatorily captured”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Joseph Stiglitz have made a convincing argument that inequality can entirely be explained by rents. That without rents (coming from monopoly power, companies influencing politics, private ownership of land) we will not see rising inequality. Which suggests that we can prevent excessive inequality with anti trust laws, land value taxes, and heavier protections against political regulatory capture.
It‘s a world wide movement from Washington to Tokyo.
Which, by chance, is not present in every country where the politicians care (or at least pretend to) for their people.
Could be not be that people is tired to vote the same people who always make promises and then deliver the opposite ?
That type of fascist movement is present in most countries. But the degree of their size and influence varies greatly. It does benefit from political and economical instability.
No, it's a first world wide movement from Washington to Tokyo and then you have Russia and India. Bringing up China is probably cheating, but this trend is not apparent in developing democracies as a rule. What we're looking at here is overripe and/or rotting capitalist societies collapsing on themselves, not magic.
The corrosion of other countries is not much better. Formerly Brazil, Argentina, South-Africa, the Arabian countries (though clad differently), Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldavia, Nepal and thos are the ones that came to mind in the past 3 minutes. All are a bit different to each other and none are outright fascist yet, but some of them are well on their way or have major parts of their population heavily dipping in nationalism
for all the Europeans currently dealing with the rise of fascism, hold strong and never give up hope for a better tomorrow. this problem is worldwide, you're not alone.
I would also like to provide a message to every European on lemmy that has bashed Americans for not doing enough this year.
you're not doing enough losers. stop being a bunch of pussies and just stop the fascists! why did you fight all those wars just to let this happen again? don't blame this shit on us, we don't run your countries.
you're not doing enough losers. stop being a bunch of pussies and just stop the fascists! why did you fight all those wars just to let this happen again? don't blame this shit on us, we don't run your countries.
Seconded.
His ideal, historian Aram Mattioli writes, was the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire.
Don't we kind of have that? The countries send their representative to determine the president of the commission. The difference is that the presidency is not for life.
Unlike the past, countries are democracies and don't receive their legitamacy as a fief. But otherwise we are not too far away.
The largest denominator for progressive movements is the hate of men. Alienating 50% of the population will send them straight into the arms of something else, in this case right-wingers who tell them "we'll take care of you, you are not at fault, this is a safe space for you, foreigners and queers are to blame".
If progressives instead made the rich the boogeymen/scapegoats and were a unifying force instead of a divisive force based on multifaceted ideological purity, we'd have a strong counterweight to fascists, nazis, conspiracy theorists, and their ilk. Unite under "Tax Wealth, Not Work" and maybe we can defeat them.