this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

fascism is a tool to promote and prop up capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would argue that fascism is the capitalism’s second final form.

Final form is feudalism, as always

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I would say fascism is just Capitalism when it needs to put on a mask and do especially brutal acts to protect itself, then blame its sins on fascism, rather than Capitalism. It's like an alter-ego.

The final stage of Capitalism, rather than feudalism, is Imperialism. Feudalism had very specific relations and relied on workers largely producing their own goods like clothing, peasants were relatively self-sufficient and thus paid large rents to their feudal lords. Capitalism relegated the new proletariat to repetitive, small-scale tasks that, when combined with others and new industrial machinery, resulted in vast expansions in commodities produced.

Imperialism is when domestic markets are all "taken," and thus must spread internationally to super-exploit foreign populations. This is self-defeating, though, and provokes war.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can you compare an economic system to a political regime?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

They are both systems that require state oppression abroad and domestically to exploit workers and uphold private property with police and military force

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stealing this meme. Too good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If it was an ubisoft meme, you'd be stealing the right to post that meme, not the actual meme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You comparing additional deaths per year per capita or what?

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