• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    the so-called private sector depends entirely on the state to enforce private property claims. the state issues corporate charters. the state “regulates” these corporations to ensure they benefit the state.

    So, all modern states are fascist?

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              i’d say that it becomes an empty accusation in the modern context, yea. like, duh. the modern state is fascist. but it’s not useless to understand the characteristics of the systems that oppress us.

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                Ok so what do you describe yourself as ideologically?

                Also, thinking of it: you give Mussolini the right to describe the ideology he created. Why don’t you give Lenin the same right and call the USSR a socialist state?

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                  I didn’t say anything about whether the ussr was socialist. I said the evidence you gave doesn’t preclude the ussr from being fascist

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                    Socialism and fascism are mutually exclusive, though. Mussolini, Franco and Hitler were extremely quick to eliminate socialists because they were aware of this.