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Is there a genuine threat of fascism taking power? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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With the rapidly worsening of the material conditions of the general population in the 'west', will we see a rerun of the early 20th century? I feel we are approaching the point where the bourgeoisie are so desperate to cling on that the 'democratic' institutions of today might be in danger.

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, it's a more subtle form

Rather than goose stepping through the halls of power, it's the people writing bills in those same halls getting the text for a legislative bill wholesale from some crypto-fascist think tank

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

In the formal state institutions it's subtle as you said, but in a lot of other material manifestations of state power it's not subtle at all. It's widely known by now that a major portion of cops are literal klansmen and neonazis, and they are the living state, its arm with which it manipulates social reality.