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        Outside of small city states, capitalism came from merchantislism.

        Specifically, at the intersection where merchantislism and mass dispossession/theft of people’s land meet.

        The only meaningful change is that the assets are now, mostly, intangible and you’re allowed to move to a different parish.

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        It is definitely leading us directly to a type of feudalism though. Where power is held by billionaires and corporations instead of local warlords.

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          Capitalism is changing, yes, but towards Monopoly Capitalism, aka Imperialism, not feudalism. Centralization of Capitalism isn’t the same as feudalism.

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    Facsism is just capitalism when you try to say no.

    Understandably, workers didn’t like capitalism. So, when they found out about socialism, many of them grouped up and tried to say no. After which, facsism was made to counter this.

    So, I mean literally fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no. You only get mercan staal neo classical economics because you say yes.

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    “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” - Benito Mussolini

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      I‘m not disagreeing with what you’re trying to convey but still: Mussolini very likely never said/wrote that, seems to have been misattributed. IF he did, the Italian word corporazioni, while technically translating to corporations, doesn’t refer to private companies, which in Italian are normally called società.

      More info:

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    Last two flags are in the wrong order. Not just chronologically, but with regards to causation too: the Nazis were heavily influenced by American racists.

    An argument could be made for the American traitor flag to be on both sides of the swastika, but that would be pretty messy…

    A Stars & Stripes with 48 stars would probably be too subtle…

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      It’s valid to point that out, but I think that OP is talking about the modern usage of the Confederate flag, not the original use. At least, it becomes a much more coherent message that way.

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      Hitler spoke about the American south and Jim Crow with reverence, he thought it should be a model for German racist policies.

      This was something he wrote about in Mein Kampf.

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        Greater than just the South, the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century, with forced sterilizations and criminalizing interracial marriage, happened nationally.

        Though you don’t need to be capitalist to be racist as fuck. Racism exists all over the world in many different government and economic systems throughout all of human history

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        i mean not just the south, the west and midwest too where do u think he got all those ideas about contiguous “living space” and about exterminating the people who already live in the land u want to steel and about consecration camps and reservations that continuously move towards a frontier until the displaced people have nowhere to go, amerikkka from its very inception was the template for nazi germany.

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          I lived in the Midwest, it’s nothing like that.

          That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

          The south literally fought a war (Texas fought 2) to preserve their practices of slavery and genocide.

          The Midwest fought, killed, and died to stop them.

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            The post is about the genocide of Native Americans. Natives originally lived in the Midwest, and now they don’t.

            Also, Indiana is the only state to be taken over by the KKK, and the North was racist in its own way.

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              They lived in the entire US, particularly the south, as did millions of slaves who suffered centuries of genocidal brutality and worse.

              And as a non-white American , you are infinitely full of shit.

              I’ve lived in most of the country, I have NEVER experienced such utter and brutal racism as in the vile, depraved south.

              This is because after the civil war we let the slaver class live in the south, and they just took over as soon as our back was turned.

              Worst decision in this country’s history, we would be so much greater of a nation if we’d simply dealt with the problem then instead of letting their filth fester and spread. Notice how Germany is a good country nowadays while the south is still as worthless as ever.

              Indiana had racism, but comparing it to the south is like comparing a sneeze and ebola.

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      Everything isn’t capitalism, but fascism is always funded by the capitalist class. In fact it can’t get far without it. Fascism doesn’t just randomly sprout out of the ground; it’s not as organic & grassroots as most people think. Fascism is always a false revolution, because the capitalist class always remains in power. It’s what the capitalist class falls back on when liberal democracy starts to fail them. It’s when the capitalist class goes mask off. That’s what Lenin meant by “fascism is capitalism in decay.” Michael Parenti: Rational Fascism

      How did January 6 happen? With a whole bunch of funding from rich motherfuckers.

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      The Nation: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

      But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” […] Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute 
bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”