• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    American. Fascism isn’t a model to copy, but a defense mechanism of dying Capitalism. Its consistencies are which classes it serves, how it forms, and how to stop it. Read Blackshirts and Reds.

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        The first chapter of Blackshirts and Reds is the most important for understanding fascism, it will take maybe 20 minutes and would be far clearer than any Lemmy comment string. However, the broad running theme with fascism is that, similar to to Communism and Socialism, it rises with Capitalist decay. The difference is that fascism is supported by the Capitalist ruling classes against the rising organization of workers, and as such has institutional support. It isn’t a hard and fast ideology to be adopted, but a defense mechanism the ruling classes deploy to retain power, violently.