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.
Empathy is the profit killer. Any sign of empathy and investors pull out.
Then you have to ask why certain critical industries and services are made private and subject to "investor" whims and feelings?
Wdym?
My guess is they are referring to hospitals, medical care, end of life care, housing, rehabilitation facilities, schools, daycares, etc.
All necessary for human survival and require great empathy, all of which are driven by profit considerations in our society which makes them make unempathetic choices for the bottom line - such as evicting people onto the streets, denying necessary medical care, letting children, the elderly and differently-abled be neglected, letting people die in great pain, euthanizing undesirable people, allowing high levels of suicide and deaths of despair, etc.