I don’t really bother talking to people who call me a fascist, because they have already shown me that their minds are closed. No doubt you think everyone on the right is a “fascist.” But I do have the The perfect tweet for thishttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1041336352581644289 …
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Presumably the dissolution of the Kulaks was also fascist?
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if fascism means authoritarian collectivism, then yes, the dissolution of the Kulaks was fascist
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historically we've called the left-wing version Communism and the right wing version Fascism but they are both manifestations of the same underlying bad idea: that an authoritarian power center can devalue the lives of individuals and treat them like cattle
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What if the only thing keeping certain people alive is an authoritarian power center that sustains people who are incapable of sustaining themselves? Is it fascist to want it to stop?
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depends on the means, basically. if you want to use state power to make it stop then yes its fascist. there are more responsible ways to attempt to reduce the amount of welfare and aid programs in the world.
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i'm not gonna to deny that there are perverse incentives and broken economies all over the world. my objection is to rhetoric that explicitly devalues human life. we can talk policy preferences all day long and disagree as reasonable people without devaluing life.
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That's fine. As long as you're able to agree anti-humanitarianism does not a fascist make we see eye to eye.
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I agree. anti-humanitarianism does not necessarily indicate fascism, there's just a very large historical overlap where every fascist is also an anti-humanitarian.
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