• JoYo 🇺🇸@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think democracy needs to exist for fascism to exist.

    The ruling class enforcing the hierarchy accomplishes what Douglas describes.

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      3 months ago

      He’s describing a very specific situation here. It also doesn’t require fashion choices like he said.

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      3 months ago

      OG fascism united with aristocrats, but that system was already dying by the time they came around. It needed liberal democracy to fail so it could exploit its weaknesses. Royalty would never tolerate someone as vulgar as Hitler or Trump otherwise.