fascism is the status quo recognizing that the people are waking up to the status quo not working for them, and the coopting the symbology of liberation to maintain itself
Because of the current social political climate, I’m learning so much about things I never thought I would. This little comic just made it click why the Nazi Germany party was a national socialist party.
it’s also worth noting this pattern of ebb and flow, subjugation and liberation, is as old as civilization itself. political theorists didn’t invent any of this, they just wrote down what the dissidents of their age were doing. fascism wasn’t created in the 1920s, it was merely named. Karl Marx didn’t create communism, he just named what he saw people working towards. for as long as humans have lived in hierarchical societies, they have discussed and planned how to bring about an end to these hierarchies that they suffer under.
Mussolini was more honest about it (inasmuch as a fascist can be honest). Despite having practically invented the term, he admitted that fascism should really be called corporatism, as it was a merger of state and corporate power.
Of course he still called it fascism, though, because it was a (then) meaningless name with roots on the Roman empire which could be attractive to his supporters. If he’d called it by its proper name probably no one would have supported it, other than the oligarchs in charge.
fascism is the status quo recognizing that the people are waking up to the status quo not working for them, and the coopting the symbology of liberation to maintain itself
Trump’s hands are drawn way too big. Other than that, yeah, that’s about it.
Because of the current social political climate, I’m learning so much about things I never thought I would. This little comic just made it click why the Nazi Germany party was a national socialist party.
it’s also worth noting this pattern of ebb and flow, subjugation and liberation, is as old as civilization itself. political theorists didn’t invent any of this, they just wrote down what the dissidents of their age were doing. fascism wasn’t created in the 1920s, it was merely named. Karl Marx didn’t create communism, he just named what he saw people working towards. for as long as humans have lived in hierarchical societies, they have discussed and planned how to bring about an end to these hierarchies that they suffer under.
Mussolini was more honest about it (inasmuch as a fascist can be honest). Despite having practically invented the term, he admitted that fascism should really be called corporatism, as it was a merger of state and corporate power.
Of course he still called it fascism, though, because it was a (then) meaningless name with roots on the Roman empire which could be attractive to his supporters. If he’d called it by its proper name probably no one would have supported it, other than the oligarchs in charge.
worth noting: he named his party the catholic socialist party.