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There are a lot of national socialist apeing as "leftist" who are working with Russia to undermine European democracies.
Even if you believe Russias position as an antagonist towards NATO is overall good on a geopolitical scale in regards to multipolarism. It doesn't mean they as a country arent extremely conservative in a cultural sense and nationalist in a political sense. Or that they aren't supporting far right politicians all over the world as it benefits them in the long run.
lol. Should've known the dastardly Russians were behind everything all along.
I mean they would be stupid not to support radical parties in their oppositional democracies. It just speed runs democracies natural tendencies to decay into fascism.
So you've now moved the goal post from supporting far right parties to "radical" parties. Interesting.
The far right isnt a radical party?
No because western Europe and Amerikkka are fascist as fuck. Radical would be outside the norm. But please accuse me of pedantry again.
Are you claiming that all "democratic" nations are inherently fascist nations at any point of their economic/political development?
Did I say all? No I was pretty specific.
And what differentiates a fascist western "democracy" from a non fascist democracy.
Dictatorship of a different class? This is fundamental Marxist theory, states are a dictatorship of one of several classes. You can't have democracy for the proletariat (vast majority of people) in a state that is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (small, powerful minority). Note: "dictatorship" of a class means that a state is organized to advance the interests of that class, not "dictatorship" as in "opposite to democracy" or "governed by one person".
Therefore, even in principle liberal "democracies" cannot be democratic. It's not a decay of democracy, it's an impossibility for it to have ever existed in those cases.