Prolekult has a video on fascism I watched just a few days ago that I thought made a fairly good case that the USA is not actually fascist. Fascistic in some ways certainly, and with the possibility to become fascist, but still very much just a liberal “democracy”. But don’t underestimate the amount and intensity of violence and horror that can be perpetrated by liberal democracies.
Of course this was more of a historical materialist analysis. For the purpose of memeing and shitting on libs for whom “thing I don’t like = fascism”, it’s close enough to correct.
That’s a good piece. Based on the definition of fascism used in that essay then it does certainly seem quite apparent that the USA is fascist. The Prolekult essay I referred to uses a different definition, based more on economics than ideology. In that sense maybe it wouldn’t be too far off to say that the USA is ideologically fascist, but not (yet) economically fascist? I don’t know.
Prolekult has a video on fascism I watched just a few days ago that I thought made a fairly good case that the USA is not actually fascist. Fascistic in some ways certainly, and with the possibility to become fascist, but still very much just a liberal “democracy”. But don’t underestimate the amount and intensity of violence and horror that can be perpetrated by liberal democracies.
Of course this was more of a historical materialist analysis. For the purpose of memeing and shitting on libs for whom “thing I don’t like = fascism”, it’s close enough to correct.
Obligatory Red Sails: https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/
I could write my own essay on why the US is fascist and has been since at least 1945 and maybe I will one day, but this will do for now.
In fact my essay may indeed argue that “liberal democracy” is indeed fascism.
That’s a good piece. Based on the definition of fascism used in that essay then it does certainly seem quite apparent that the USA is fascist. The Prolekult essay I referred to uses a different definition, based more on economics than ideology. In that sense maybe it wouldn’t be too far off to say that the USA is ideologically fascist, but not (yet) economically fascist? I don’t know.
There’s also this.
There’s a rev left radio podcast discussing this as well, See here.
Ask the oppressed nations within the continent whether the US is fascist…