Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest

• Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At the extreme, sure. Authority/Anarchy isn’t a binary selection. (Fascism is an authoritarian position, specifically it’s a right-nationalist movement centered on cultural identity)

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And that is exactly the situation in Russia: it’s an

    • right-nationalist (“rescuing” suppressed people from the evil Ukraine - that one is super ironic because it’s exactly the same argumentation Germany used with the Sudetendeutsche)
    • authoritarian (arrests for holding up empty pieces of paper, drafting for the war - but only in the poor areas far away from Moscow) regime
    • centered on cultural identity (anti-gay laws, “restoring the CCCP”, persisting propaganda comparing the Ukraine war with WW2, "we have to defend ourselves from NATO)

    It’s pretty late, so i don’t repeat the exercise for China or bring up more examples - i’m pretty sure that if you try to counter my points someone else will give you more examples.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      At no point in here have I said that Russia isn’t a fascist state. It checks all the boxes: violent, authoritarian, nationalist, suppressing minorities and marginalized groups, single party, lots of corruption. You’re confusing my Communist sympathies with uncritical support for the modern regime dressed in red.

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  • Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretty sure the one thing to say about fascism besides it being authoritarian is that it wants corporate control. Mussolini was debating calling it Corporatism.

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