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"But right-wing doctrines are not defined purely by reactionary instincts. They are defined by definite assertions and beliefs of their own—most importantly, the conviction that people (and peoples) are fundamentally unequal, and the best society is one that reflects natural or ordained inequalities. To obey a real superior is a great social virtue, to paraphrase the conservative James Fitzjames Stephen."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first

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Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First

Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

Sui

@Sui@troet.cafe replied · 2 weeks ago

"... vision of the future, everyone was to know their place, and the working classes especially were to be kept where they belonged, out of the political-decision making process altogether.

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This went so far that the more generically conservative party, the German National People’s party, formed a coalition with the NSDAP and supported their dictatorial ambitions."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first

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#socialism #conservatism #capitalism #facism

Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First

Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

Sui

@Sui@troet.cafe replied · 2 weeks ago

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first

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#socialism #conservatism #capitalism #facism

Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First

Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

Sui

@Sui@troet.cafe replied · 2 weeks ago

"This is because fascists deny that economic precarity is the basic social problem, and also that using reason to design a well-functioning economic system that secures the good things of life for all is a worthy aspiration. Mussolini (or rather Gentile speaking through Mussolini) insisted that the fascist 'believes now and always in sanctity and heroism, that is to say in acts in which no economic motive — remote or immediate — is at work.' "

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first

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Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First

Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

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