Are you disagreeing with me? I agree with everything you say. Even your emphasis on subjective human emotion leading to objective action or consequence is spot on.
Fascism is a byproduct of capitalism. Oppressing outgroups is a needed function of the state, just like keeping a middle class is a needed function of a state, and the two functions are deeply connected.
Fascist rage is Middle class fear. Middle class fear comes from constant threat of financial ruin, and humiliation. Telling people not to show distress is a way of keeping people from sharing their distress, and organizing themselves along the material basis of that distress.
If something bad is happening at work, but something worse might happen if i sign a union card, then i might not sign that card. Hell, i’ll probably even tell myself that its not that bad, I’ll suck it up, its hard but thats what makes me deserve it, which means that other guy deserves what he got, which means the boss deserves what he got.
Then the boss gives me a manager position for being company material. And I’ll tell the employees to suck it up when they have problems, because that’s what I know. Fucking people over becomes a virtue, showing emotion or caring about people gets considered a weakness. And that suits the bosses, the capitalists, just fine. Sound familiar?
Fascism is just scab ideology. Its the belief that what is best for society is for me to screw over everyone around me, except the boss who abuses me a little less for it.
You say that violence doesn’t fix the problem, but thats because it doesn’t fix our problems. If, from someone’s perspective, the problems of society are :
The poors are actin up
Capitalists aren’t making money fast enough and need to force people to take lower wages
Fascists don’t have state power
A large group of workers needs divided (read violently oppressed)
Then fascism might be the answer to the problem. Fascism isn’t an idea in someone’s brain, it is a set of circumstances in society. Problems in society make some people want to change society to eliminate the problems, and other people who want to benefit personally from the continuation of those problems, and creation of new ones. The first group wants to hear your grievances, and the second group wants to shut you up.
It was intended more as a clarification than a disagreement, as I was focused on a different part of fascism when I read that and agree with your additions. It channels the anger away from the true causes towards scapegoats that have nothing to do with the problems, or that are tangentially related, or maybe the other side in some other (legitimate or not) conflict.
Are you disagreeing with me? I agree with everything you say. Even your emphasis on subjective human emotion leading to objective action or consequence is spot on.
Fascism is a byproduct of capitalism. Oppressing outgroups is a needed function of the state, just like keeping a middle class is a needed function of a state, and the two functions are deeply connected.
Fascist rage is Middle class fear. Middle class fear comes from constant threat of financial ruin, and humiliation. Telling people not to show distress is a way of keeping people from sharing their distress, and organizing themselves along the material basis of that distress.
If something bad is happening at work, but something worse might happen if i sign a union card, then i might not sign that card. Hell, i’ll probably even tell myself that its not that bad, I’ll suck it up, its hard but thats what makes me deserve it, which means that other guy deserves what he got, which means the boss deserves what he got.
Then the boss gives me a manager position for being company material. And I’ll tell the employees to suck it up when they have problems, because that’s what I know. Fucking people over becomes a virtue, showing emotion or caring about people gets considered a weakness. And that suits the bosses, the capitalists, just fine. Sound familiar?
Fascism is just scab ideology. Its the belief that what is best for society is for me to screw over everyone around me, except the boss who abuses me a little less for it.
You say that violence doesn’t fix the problem, but thats because it doesn’t fix our problems. If, from someone’s perspective, the problems of society are :
Then fascism might be the answer to the problem. Fascism isn’t an idea in someone’s brain, it is a set of circumstances in society. Problems in society make some people want to change society to eliminate the problems, and other people who want to benefit personally from the continuation of those problems, and creation of new ones. The first group wants to hear your grievances, and the second group wants to shut you up.
Have you ever read What is National Socialism?
It was intended more as a clarification than a disagreement, as I was focused on a different part of fascism when I read that and agree with your additions. It channels the anger away from the true causes towards scapegoats that have nothing to do with the problems, or that are tangentially related, or maybe the other side in some other (legitimate or not) conflict.