Bonus title: Fascism is Imperialism turned inwards
cross-posted from @jackeroni@lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/33684635
It's also colonialism turned inwards.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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I added that in the body :) unless you explicitly differentiated from imperialism and colonialism, if so
How I understand it, imperialism is a general term describing a nation ruling over another, controlling the politics, the economy, the military, the media, etc; through either soft power, or hard power.
Colonialism is occupying the land, and with the same outcome as above. Imperialism is a general concept, colonialism is one of the means of imperialism, since you don't always need explicit colonialism to be imperialist. I hope I got that right lol
Oh, sorry, we missed that, heh.
It's just a quote we heard the other day, we think. Maybe it was imperialism though. Either way, great addition 🙂
I've also heard "fascism is colonialism coming home to roost," which honestly tracks.
No worries 😁 and thanks!
Fascism describes a political system that can occur in the context of multiple economic systems. It's not unique to capitalism.
All systems can decay into tyranny, but what we call fascism is only really possible under capitalism. The closest non-capitalist example was the Soviet Union, which was definitely fucked up but wasn't really fascist in the traditional sense. Lots of Russian chauvinism? Definitely. Genocide? Absolutely. But no wider ethnic purity project along the lines of Nazi Germany. The distinguishing feature of fascism is its break-neck march towards collapse as more and more people are regarded as untermensch and fewer and fewer people are permitted to be ubermensch. Fascism is essentially murder-suicide as a political ideology (more accurately family of political ideology), and it's rare if not impossible for a non-capitalist system to produce that.
in academic spheres bolshevism and neoliberalism are viewed as being expressions of fascism, sometimes called "ur-fascism" to distinguish eternal fascism from what you're specifying as fascism (sometimes also called "hyperfascism")
Gonna have to disagree. Capitalism is the root. It fosters the worst in people and rewards bad behavior.
Also, this is AI generated isn't it...
I agree, fascism is capitalism in crisis. Capitalism is always cruel as imperialism in the global south, but I'd say fascism is the most mask off form. Ultimately, capitalism is the root of the issue. The meme wasn't contradicting that
And no, it's not AI :)
Fascism is when imperialism comes home.
I'd broaden that to say that any society or economic system collapses into authoritarianism when times get rough. We evolved to demand strong leaders, especially in times of crisis.
No, thata bullshit.
We evolved to collaborate.
We were trained to beg daddy.
Edit: We do not live in a state of nature, stop assuming how we behave in all this is fundamental human behavior.
