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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 7h \ on: Fascists! Politics_And_Law
Fascism has a definition
Let's check Brittanica:
There has been considerable disagreement among historians and political scientists about the nature of fascism.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford OP 7h
LOL Brittanica...
It has multiple definitions... OK.
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46 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 7h
Jokes aside... I think that this is why it's such a misused term, but it doesn't really matter... oppressive states suck regardless of them fitting the facism label or something else.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 7h
Seriously. Words that don't have a common meaning have little value. That's my point really. I didn't realize that even the Soviet people in the 1990s used it in the same way.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 7h
Exactly. I think the biggest mistake Americans make about the USSR is focusing on the oppressiveness. ANY state can be oppressive. The US, the UK, Nazis, Fascists, Communists, and whatever. Some of the worst places in the world have Democratic in their names...
Socialism doesn't work with or without the oppression. Of course it requires oppression and leads to insane oppression even if you removed that aspect and had it run by angels you'd have mass starvation.
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