The Economist on Thursday published a scathing editorial criticizing Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on virtually all of the United States' trade partners.
In all seriousness, capitalism is exactly why we’re here right now. (That said, technocrit is an idiot with some of the dumbest takes on this site. They blanket basically everything as fascist/fascism-adjacent, and I’m not going to say The Economist promoted this, because they didn’t.)
Being ineffectual is helping the fascists; that’s the whole goddamn problem here. When you’re fighting fascists the battlefield isn’t the polls; it’s the hearts and minds of disillusioned workers, and liberals are too weak to win that battle against fascism no matter how much you try to unite behind them.
Leftists’ weakness in modern America is a matter of numbers and organization; it’s a situational weakness. In contrast, liberals’ weakness to fascism is a categorical weakness. No matter what you do, liberals are categorically incapable of beating fascism. Therefore pushing for unity behind liberals is a fool’s errand, as this election has shown.
If anything, leftists are busier driving the horizontal hostility that poisons worker solidarity and benefits fascists.
Horizonal hostility between who and who? Hatred of the Democratic elites is nothing but horizontal I’ll tell you that.
I don’t think you know what fascism is? Liberal, capitalist, sure, pro Trump? Definitely not, pro fascism? definitely not…. That’s even true for the very woolly definition of fascism as most people use it today
They’re not pro-Trump, but the base of inequality, arrogance and hate necessary for fascism to take hold was co-produced by the Democrats. You support that and you’re pro-fascism whether you like it or not.
The Economist: [Endlessly promotes fascism]
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The Economist: What’s with this fascism!??!?!
They haven’t encouraged this, they’ve been pretty critical of trump.
They’re openly capitalist and liberal.
Scratch a neoliberal…
In all seriousness, capitalism is exactly why we’re here right now. (That said, technocrit is an idiot with some of the dumbest takes on this site. They blanket basically everything as fascist/fascism-adjacent, and I’m not going to say The Economist promoted this, because they didn’t.)
Like it or not, in the US the liberals were the primary opposition to fascists.
Conservative and Russian created propoganda managed to convince a lot of leftists that it was more important to fight liberals than fascists.
And they were ineffectual opposition that did more to help fascism than hurt it.
Ineffectual, yes. As for helping fascism, the ones who helped were the ones too busy fighting liberals to fights the fascists.
Being ineffectual is helping the fascists; that’s the whole goddamn problem here. When you’re fighting fascists the battlefield isn’t the polls; it’s the hearts and minds of disillusioned workers, and liberals are too weak to win that battle against fascism no matter how much you try to unite behind them.
Leftists are also too weak and ineffectual to win that battle. Leftists are orders of magnitude weaker than liberals in the US.
If anything, leftists are busier driving the horizontal hostility that poisons worker solidarity and benefits fascists.
Leftists’ weakness in modern America is a matter of numbers and organization; it’s a situational weakness. In contrast, liberals’ weakness to fascism is a categorical weakness. No matter what you do, liberals are categorically incapable of beating fascism. Therefore pushing for unity behind liberals is a fool’s errand, as this election has shown.
Horizonal hostility between who and who? Hatred of the Democratic elites is nothing
buthorizontal I’ll tell you that.Edited.
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I don’t think you know what fascism is? Liberal, capitalist, sure, pro Trump? Definitely not, pro fascism? definitely not…. That’s even true for the very woolly definition of fascism as most people use it today
If it’s not Mao-era China, it’s fascist.
A good example of why “literally fascism!!!” Didn’t get people to the polls last year.
“LiBz!11”
They’re not pro-Trump, but the base of inequality, arrogance and hate necessary for fascism to take hold was co-produced by the Democrats. You support that and you’re pro-fascism whether you like it or not.