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Adam F. Lawton | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5d0edf53 To your second point, I'd argue that only two countries were openly fascist at the time; Spain and Italy. Everyone else in Europe as well as globally, was moving toward either social democracy or communism and/or socialism. Which in my mind, supports my original point; in eras of material excess social movements tend toward social responsibility.
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bebb742b | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2a70c54d
the way i think of fascism is like as capitalism having an "immune reaction" to class struggle and class consciousness, it is a backlash meant to defend capitalism from the threat. so a period of relative revolutionary fervor (say, 1917–23) is generally followed by fascist reaction (italy 1922, germany and spain in the following decade).

in the case of right now, the rise of leftism in american politics since occupy wall street produced a backlash in the form of trump and the "anti-woke" wave. greater efforts to challenge the system equal greater challenges from the system. it seems the world can only be dragged forward kicking and screaming...