Exactly that. That's why I always said here on SN: for me, as a full communist regime survivor is very easy to see the atrocities done in my past how are coming slowly then suddenly into this "new world" . For me is like living the groundhog day all over again...

Yuri Bezmenov was right. You should watch his interview by Ed. Griffin in the 80s. Everything he said it became now true.

And this is just the beginning.

Let's check Brittanica:

lol.

The word fascism literally comes from the italian word fasci which means "bundle" or "group".

So fascism is basically identitarian politics of any kind. Even leftist groups in Italy called themselves "fasci" at the time.

To the extent that communism is also about group politics (labor vs capital), it's basically fascistic.

Gerald Celente defines fascism as “the merger of corporate power with government power”.

So, if cooperation takes over the state or the state takes over cooperations may result in a similar end state.

Fascism is the merger of corporate and state, where there is no longer a distinction between church (moral) and state (executive) functions. This tends to be implemented in ethnic or linguistic hegemonies because pluralistic societies are inherently more decentralised. But there is no reason per se that fascism and ethno-nationalism need to synonyms, this is just an accident of our associations, and an unfortunate one. Ireland is an ethno-nationalist state, as was Greece. They weren't propositional nations as the modern revisionist history suggests. Why were Greece of Portugal fascist but not Ireland? The difference comes down to the level of corporate integration with the state, not the ethnic dimension. Arguably South Korea and Japan are fascist today, and have been since WW2, not because they are ethno-states, but because they are deeply centralised and governed by large corporate administrations that dominate every aspect of people's lives.

Due to the heavy hand of regulation and the purchase of democratic institutions by corporations we have a deep integration between the corporate and the state in the West.

China today is definitively fascist, the CCP being the closest thing to a Nazi party in the modern world. This is not disputable, communism failed and fascism picked up the pieces, enslaving the population through new corporate vehicles barely distinct from the state.

The USSR attempted communism, but when it collapsed it veered wildly towards anarcho-capitalism, which then re-centralised to an extent, but it is nowhere near as centralised or fascistic as China and the CCP.

Words no longer have any sort of 😏 Ng anymore and its wild 🤦🏼‍♂️

I will say, I have had to pause the video in this series a few times to add some context for my lady that the documentary leaves out. Lies of omission are the worst.