Fascism is capitalism in decay. As with anticommunism in general, the ruling class has oversimplified this phenomenon to the point of absurdity and teaches but a small fraction of its history. This is the spot for getting a serious understanding of it (from a more proletarian perspective) and collecting the facts that contemporary anticommunists are unlikely to discuss.
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For our purposes, we consider early Shōwa Japan to be capitalism in decay.
Neo-Nazi kills innocent people, conservatives run defense by insisting they had nothing to do with his radicalization. Even though he namedropped some folks that got the idea from.
When are people going to wake up and realize that this culture war shit has actual consequences?
Admittedly I myself haven’t looked, but it’s probable that antisocialists (e.g. Dinesh D’Souza) have already tried spinning him off as a ‘leftist’ because of his use of a Russian social network or other irrelevancies. Logically, that would imply that, for the first time in history, a ‘leftist’ was enjoying blatant rightist crap like ‘Libs of TikTok’ and identifying with right‐wing death squads, but time and again antisocialists have proven willing to disregard common sense if that fails to serve their agenda.
Always remember: everything is socialism.