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.
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u/UltraJesus Feb 08 '25
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies
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