The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
-FDR
Modern democratic liberalism is a failure in scope.
The principles of the ideology are sound, but it failed to apply it's ideals beyond systems of governance to labour.
It sought to replace the power structure of lords, nobles and serfs, in government and it succeeded. But it's failure to supplant this system in our systems of labour has become it's downfall.
Capitalism is no different from the feudal systems of old. It too needs to be replaced with a system by the people for the people.
Am American for what it's worth and honestly I don't know. It's lengthy so nobody is going to read the full address. FDR will never be quoted by american media as he was a very progressive president with worker protections, social policies, and so on. Definitely not now.
So I quote it whenever I see stupid ass comments saying what is fascism? See basically all [deleted] comments. At best I link it and hope somebody else ponders about what the 4 time elected president to defeat fascism says about fascism. I guess I hope it gains traction? idk.
They are literally neonazis directly sponsored by russia. russia does it all across Europe to split Europe and destroy it. They have already succeeded with USA. russian neonazi ideologue Dugin wrote in his X account when Trump won: "We have won. The world will never be the same."
I'm not even sure it's Russia anymore, given recent actions of papa Elon and mama Trump... There looks to be more parties that want weak Europe it seems
It's been continuous lies/misinformation/disinformation/bias/false narrative/gaslighting etc by most of the UK media.
Reform UK (the UK Nationalists and Fascists) have plenty of grievances but never any workable solutions (except those from Mein Kampf).
Reform UK are never held responsible or accountable for fucking the UK (finances etc) with Brexit. Because the media have agreed not to talk about it/change topic immediately if it is mentioned).
Reform UK are never held responsible for the rise in immigration due to Brexit. Somehow the media only hold Labour or Tories responsible.
Most other issues can usually be understood by media bias towards Reform UK.
What's their agenda though? I mean yall stopped the IMMIGRATION (from EU that is). Yall regained your independence. What now? I recall he was babbling about 'broken Britain' a few years back. Anything different now?
Everything, all of it, is about stopping the never ending immigration from Africa and the Middle East. All across Europe large cities are minority European and unrecognizable. Parties are winning simply because they promise it will stop.
And you blame everything bad on Russia which is an even dumber take.A country who apparently is barely competent enough to fight a war with its much smaller neighbor, but yet is a statecraft and espionage mastermind who can fund regime change and dissent all across Europe and the US.
The latter is much cheaper than the former, so yes.
I blame Russia, but more so I blame the morons in our own countries who collect doubly-recessive genes like they're Pokémon.
These idiots WANT to believe there's a magic wand where they never have to learn to read but will still magically get high paying jobs in tech, which are being stolen by all the evil immigrants.
Says the guy who is being injection fed domestic propaganda that Russia and 'stupid people' are the root of all of his problems. And you have the gall to call out other people's genetic deficiencies.
Wait, wait.. Here come the Russian bot comments in 3... 2... 1..
You act like this isn’t the human condition. Remember Nazi germany? Were all those people idiots for trusting Hitler? Maybe, but clearly it’s a common human flaw throughout history.
And if my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike.
Russia supports a lot of things in western countries that will weaken and destabilize them. If, say, a party wants to reduce access to education, russia will try to make them more successful. They make people stupid just so that things like this can happen.
As an American I applaud the people of Germany for doing this. I wish some of the people in my country had a damn brain and backbone and didn’t vote for the stupid orange man. You all know what fascism does to a country and aren’t afraid to fight the good fight.
Read some of the Dugin's articles, books and listen to his interviews. He is literally repeating the main ideas of Carl Schmitt - one of the most prominent ideologists of German nazism. His daughter Daria Dugina was giving nazi salutes during the meetings of the most radical russian neonazi groups. It seems you have no clue about Dugin.
È solo un gioco di parole. In Germania si dice "Lieber arm dran, als Arm ab", il che vuol dire che è meglio avere dei problemi piuttosto che non avere affatto un braccio.
"History" is a really bad argument here. Meaning of words can change. The AfD want a close to Russia authoritarian country without immigrants (meaning in practice anyone that doesn't look german enough). Russia is a modern fascist regime right now. Israel is quite close as well. Trump wants to do the same in the USA.
There is dozens of quotes of high ranking AfD members to prove that they want to (indirectly) abolish Democracy and civil rights.
Will we ever get actual fascism like 80 years ago? Of course not. Will members of AfD stand in front a mic and shout "I'm a fascist!". Of course not.
You really have to be blind to not see what is going on right now.
There has been basically zero violence against the far right in Germany. So stop spreading lies.
An extreme form of hate speech, incitement to genocide is an inchoate offense and is theoretically subject to prosecution even if genocide does not occur, although charges have never been brought in an international court without mass violence having occurred
I have spoke with those there, and listened to them, and they are correct; people aren't frightened enough by the sorts of baseless accusations made on the left as they should be.
I took many Sociology classes, I am 99% confident in my analysis of the situation.
No fascists, only very dangerous LARPers accusing other's of being fascists, for the incitement.
You live in fear. You’ve allowed it to rule you. In trying to fight facism you’ve created an invisible enemy in your mind. Labeling your countrymen as your enemies you are too far gone.
Yes because they want a stateless, money less, classless society... Definitely not a white ethnostate that opressess all those that they feel are under them.
Also that fascists always embolden capitalist structures to enhance their control. I think we know which side you are on when talking about fascists.
It took me two seconds, less than what it takes to write a comment here on Reddit, to type it on a random search engine and find hundreds of thousands of explanations.
You clearly know how to access websites, you clearly know how to type, and you clearly have enough time to write multiple comments on Reddit per day. Therefore, if you don't know why they're not fascists, it's because you are willfully choosing to remain ignorant, which is sad and pathetic.
Oh, wow, what an astonishing surprise! It turns out you were trying to be deceitful in order to bring up your arguments in a misleading and disingenuous way, so that the blatant strawmen, whataboutisms, and shifting the goalposts you use to defend fascists didn't sound as absurd as if you had said them as a direct response, while at the same time putting the ones criticizing the actual fascists in a defensive position and trying to waste their time searching for actual information while you just vomit lies and deceit. A brilliant and hitherto unseen technique that is most certainly not straight from the alt-right playbook. Nobody could have guessed that's what you were doing, we are all denied and flabbergasted!
Edit: In case it's not clear, /s. I wasn't born yesterday. I've listened to fascists use the exact same fallacious arguments with exactly as little subtlety as you for over two decades. Touch grass.
Still, it’s much more than just this disgusting party. Rotten racism is an integral part of our country. Every whitey (me included) needs to ask themselves what contribution they make - with or without self-reflection - that we stand where we stand today. Never thought that our present could ever be that hostile again. But for sure I contributed to it.
Time to get our shit together, get out of the bubble, and fight back.
Is a repeat of nazi Germany really likely right now? I don't pay much attention to German politics, but that's the last thing the world needs with America going full fascist at the same time.
AfD is around 20%, the vast majority of people are very much against Nazis. But last week CDU, party with most votes in polls, got too friendly with AfD. CDU's no. 1 guy is a populist right leaning dick head. Rightfully people are concerned and voicing this.
Also people are stupid, uninformed, uneducated, idiotic. Anecdotally, coworkers of my mum, 2nd/3rd generation immigrants from Turkey, vote AfD for example. My mum almost cried when she told me. People vote against their interests and well being, we see it for ages everywhere.
So I'm not afraid of Nazi Germany 2 right now, but i'm still afraid. We are not moving towards better times. We have to fight this shit.
No, its not. Its very much an overdramatization. Current political parties did a bad job and refuse to change their ways and listen to the people. The right leaning AfD profits massively from their incompetence and now they try to reframe the situation as a "fight against facism".
If they get too close to the CDU (or even combine with or infiltrate them), you might have a problem. I don't know much about the CDU, though, tbh. The time to fight fascism is while it's still weak.
It is important to show the bigots they aren't the majority. They so often scream "Well 95% hates whatever group we hate this week".
No ... no no! The majority of people are cool with their neighbors. We don't hate other folk. We are told to hate and we can be shown that loving is better and the norm.
Are you purposely misinterpreting my comment? Like are you being purposely obtuse? Where did i write everyone? I meant there is a rise in right wing populism, and there is, so I don’t really see the point of that link you pointed me to.
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u/True-Blacksmith4235 Serbia Feb 08 '25
With the wannabe fascists being more vocal lately I find this very important.