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 @TankieSanders
How much does the decorative mumbo-jumbo matter, though? (And actually even mainstream fascist / socialist realist aesthetics are broadly similar, though the Nazis -- in particular -- are especially good at it.)
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And it’s reductionist to call that decorative. The “decorations” were a key part of the platform. It’s like calling the Catholic mass “decorative”. Their whole shtick (rightly or wrongly) was that it wasn’t just an economic / social welfare platform
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