El DuvelleWhere are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃
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Big Head Tales@elduvelle
I think of myself as left, I could be what’s considered far left, it’s not entirely clear what the delineation is.
To me “left” means socialized medicine, solid social safety nets, subsidized university, that sort of thing.
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️Do you support the complete dismantlement of all current systems of exploitation? Including capitalism? Congratulations, welcome to the far left.
@atatassault @elduvelle
I don’t mind capitalism as long as it’s regulated within a social democratic structure.
Pure capitalism is nothing but fascism in a suit.
Бджілка робе кусь@bigheadtales @atatassault @elduvelle Capitalism has nothing to do with fascism. Unregulated "wild" capitalism is certainly very bad, it leads to oligarchy and autocracy, but fascism is just wrong word. Please don't use that word as a synonym to "bad" or "oppressive", it has more specific meaning.
@bjeelka @atatassault @elduvelle
I disagree, fascism is a form of authoritarian government where the government leadership enriches themselves by subverting the population, controlling resources and markets (often by force) and giving preferential, even monopoly treatment to rich, loyal benefactors.
I would argue that fascism is the natural evolution of unregulated capitalism.
@bjeelka
That's a fair definition from a philosophical point of view, but it leaves out the exploitation by the authoritarian leadership of rich business interests for profit.
Suggest you do some reading as to how Hitler and the Nazis relied upon support from rich businesses in return for preferential government treatment.
Still, I will take your comments into my thinking.
@bigheadtales Yeah, but pretty much all regimes do that to some extent. All political systems rely on large busyness support, democratic, autocratic, all forms of anocracies and hybrid regimes do that, and fascist totalitarian regimes not an exception. Even regimes that call themselves socialist do that, for example our Ukrainian oligarchs are actually originated in late soviet "red executives" system - the corruption-based monopolies, half-state, half-quazi-private.