11-17-2016, 05:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2016, 11:43 AM by FireIceTalon.)
The link you provided on the Marxist view of fascism I generally agree with for the most part. I do disagree with the Marxist Bordiga's take however though (yep, even Marxists disagree with eachother on certain things), that fascism is no different from regular bourgeois democracy, or monarchy (even if it is a type of bourgeois rule, there are still specific conditions that define fascism and make it distinguished from typical bourgeois political systems), and that it isn't exceptionally reactionary. Otherwise, we would be able to label social democratic, capitalist states like Sweden or Norway as being fascist, which they certainly are not. It would also be in error to label all Monarchies in Feudal Europe as fascists, they simply were not.
It's why before Trump's election I was still a bit hesitant to label America as being full blown fascist (though it certainly was well on its way). To me, Trump is the completion of American fascism, the final resulting crown jewel that signifies the ruling class' panic because the capitalist system is in a very precarious state. A demagogue is one of the defining features of fascism and Trump is filler of that checkbox on the list.
It's why before Trump's election I was still a bit hesitant to label America as being full blown fascist (though it certainly was well on its way). To me, Trump is the completion of American fascism, the final resulting crown jewel that signifies the ruling class' panic because the capitalist system is in a very precarious state. A demagogue is one of the defining features of fascism and Trump is filler of that checkbox on the list.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)