Okay we all know that already. I’m not reinventing the wheel.

But I think I am realizing why fascism does certain things and it is rooted in the fact that as capitalism hollows everything out and destroys the society that hosts it the capitalism disjunctions the social fabrics, breaking the social reproduction, and ultimately destabilizing or undoing all the unpaid labors that make society work - the humming substructure that capitalism grafted super structurally into.

So that’s why fascism always obsesses over birth rates and trad shit. It’s them scrabbling to unfuck society from all the ways capitalism fucked society. It’s their mad-hatted dash to pick up the pieces of the delicate shit their bosses broke

I’m phone posting in a mall and it smells like cheap cologne and Starbucks. I’m in the nest of the beast and I’m stewing on shit.

But I think I finally get it and can articulate why someone once said fascism is the immune system of capitalism, fascism is the fever. And it stuck to me. And I think this is how I make sense of it. Christmas shopping the Saturday before the holiday like a big dumb dope who didn’t plan ahead.

But hey I’m having fun, edibles rule.

  • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    neoliberalism IS fascism. Fascism is not a distinct thing from capitalism, they are the same thing, fascism is hyper-capitalism. The more intense the capitalist relations and the more one-sided and unopposed the class domination, the more “fascist” it appears to us. This is why the Nazis privatized everything. It really is that simple. Capitalism doesn’t “lead” to fascism, fascism is just its bare expression unmitigated by ideology or social guardrails installed by socialists.