• Yozul@beehaw.org
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    Merging corporate and government power is not at all the same thing as the workers seizing the means of production.

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        Well, obviously. It’s just that a nationalist, authoritarian government led by a populist strongman merging corporate and state power is the primary goal of fascism. We really shouldn’t think it’s hypocritical or surprising when the fascists support fascism. That’s what they do.

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          It’s more of a statement on how his followers justify these types of things. Not him. I know he’s a wanna be dictator.

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            But that’s kinda my point. He’s not just a wanna be dictator. He is the fascist leader of a fascist movement, and his supports are fascists, even if they don’t like that terminology. Fascism isn’t just a mean word for politician I don’t like. It’s an actual populist political ideology. The whole movement is fascist. Not just the guy at the head.