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.
Fascism is the bourgeois of a state violently taking over to preserve their power preemptively in response to what they view as something that’s gonna overthrow them.
It’s why in Europe in the 30s it was a response to failed socialist revolutions in Europe.
It’s why now, the us bourgeois are being fascist, it knows China is over taking the US.
It’s like when an animal is dying and starts violently lashing out, it’s a last ditch effort to preserve power for the bourgeoisie.
You aren’t wrong, but it’s not the main thing. Everything you’re talking about with the birth rate talks and trad shit is a response or the bourgeois trying to violently change the material conditions back to when they were better for them.
In 30s Germany in was pre WW1
In the US now they want it to be the 60s-80s again