Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them

• ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a nationalist economic policy, neo-mercantilism integrates well with the fascist economic model, particularly in this age when the masses are so accustomed to foreign goods that they might find the explicit notion of autarky alienating.

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  • Peaty@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but ideologically China is not aligned with fascism at all. They are on paper still pretending to be Marxists. Fascism is opposed to Marxism.

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• bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And what do you call an authoritarian ethnic state that has co opted capital to ensure and spread state control over public and private life?

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  • Peaty@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Authoritarian, which you already mentioned.

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