Discussion
a thread on bsky (that I shared over there) makes the point that fascism is endemic...and while I agree we need to always be fighting fascism and fascism has to hide what it is to succeed (because we've begun to evolve past it culturally, although not yet completely), I *do not* agree that fascism is part of "human nature"
fascism is patriarchy retrenching
here's my own thread on that...
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appeals to human nature are always deeply suspect to me, they're always "you have to accept this premise which justifies terrible things"; "fascism is human nature" ignores the deeply gendered nature of fascism & the history of patriarchy that absolutely did intensify w/the rise of capitalism...
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appeals to human nature are always deeply suspect to me, they're always "you have to accept this premise which justifies terrible things"; "fascism is human nature" ignores the deeply gendered nature of fascism & the history of patriarchy that absolutely did intensify w/the rise of capitalism...
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appeals to human nature are always deeply suspect to me, they're always "you have to accept this premise which justifies terrible things"; "fascism is human nature" ignores the deeply gendered nature of fascism & the history of patriarchy that absolutely did intensify w/the rise of capitalism...
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...as the early industrialists got men to buy into their obedience to capitalism by promising to basically enslave women to them, something even Marx managed to just overlook
(thank you Silvia Federici)
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...as the early industrialists got men to buy into their obedience to capitalism by promising to basically enslave women to them, something even Marx managed to just overlook
(thank you Silvia Federici)
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...as the early industrialists got men to buy into their obedience to capitalism by promising to basically enslave women to them, something even Marx managed to just overlook
(thank you Silvia Federici)
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fascism is no more human nature than patriarchy; and the further you go back the less patriarchy we have, precisely because it has always been a shitty way to survive.
Cooperation is survival.
"*fascism is human nature* because brutality is survival" is patriarchy justifying itself
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