• CompactFlax
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    9 days ago

    There were a lot of antisemites and fascists in the early 20th century. Hitler didn’t act alone; he was the demagogue who got fascists into power in the most developed industrial nation of the time.

  • PugJesus@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    If by some miracle the SDP pulled off a surprise victory and righted the floundering ship that was the German Weimar Republic, we’d probably discuss evil in terms of colonialist or Soviet atrocities.

    Fascism is a very easy target for condemning authoritarians, though - if you ever read the Doctrine of Fascism, it’s really quite open about crushing the individual in service to a singular will in control of the fascist state. We’d probably still be calling people fascists for being authoritarian shitheads - we’d just probably use a broader term than ‘Nazi’ (‘genocidaire’ is my vote, but it’s also a bit of a mouthful) when casually referring to immense evil.

  • Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Stuff like that inevitably happens under capitalism, where ever-escalating sociopathy in treading on your fellow workers rewards you with more money/power.