Fascism only collapsed due to external demolition, and is robust. The Soviet Union decisively beat the largest military invasion in history and destroyed the vast majority of those regimes and was brittle. That makes sense.
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Replying to @TankieSanders
Lenin switched Bolshevism onto a fascist track in 1921. But his version of pragmatic state management of the economic 'commanding heights' was never as effective as FDR's.
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Replying to @TankieSanders
It's the kind of mess that the NEP was required to bandage.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Wow. Bold take that everything that happened in the USSR post 1921 was Practical Socialism.
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Replying to @TankieSanders @Outsideness
“Stalin was the real Nazi!” This is the weird boomer-tinged mess you get into when you try and explain fascism in purely economic terms and ignore the pseudo religious stuff palingenesis etc Seperately, happy Croatian Independence Day folkspic.twitter.com/uVhZdRskoF
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Replying to @tomdupresh @Outsideness
It makes me sad that someone like Land thinks repackaging National Review tripe as some deep edgy insight is worthwhile so he can seastead with Peter Thiel or whatever
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Replying to @TankieSanders @tomdupresh
Goldberg was basically right on this. The only debunking -- from any side -- has been vacuous snark. Just because his argument is unfashionable doesn't make it false.
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Replying to @Outsideness @TankieSanders
Economic fascism is just social democracy. I’d agree. Eugenics is deeply progressive (in a good way). But that’s distinct from actual full fascism which was quasi-religious. The Codreanu book has a great quote on the diff between class-struggle socialism and NS il dig it out
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Replying to @tomdupresh @Outsideness
One of the things I actually didn't realize until recently was that at the time Nazis were known for privatizing businesses - selling them off to fund their huge deficit caused by military spending. The picture is not as uncomplicated as the armchair libertarian would think
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It’s tricky to look at fascism as a “system” like Marxism or Liberalism it kind of grew and changed over time and in different contexts. Early and late (RSI) Mussolini had FA in common. Still, it definitely wasn’t right wing enough, il give you that, but it’s right nonetheless
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