That’s interesting. Does that make China communist or fascist?
Good question. Definitely not communist, but then again The Soviet Union was hardly communist either. More like substituting private property for state property, little difference really. China is certainly authoritarian and the nationalism has been ramped up under Xi. I still wouldn't say fascist. Panthera Tigris' comment that it is state organised crony capitalism is not far off the mark. The CCP attempting to meld their party as the personification of their country is something fascists did.
Did he really write regulated health care is a kind of fascism? that's cray cray
EDIT, just read it - the author has redefined "fascism" to suit their own purposes.
Yep, just looking at the quote Glantone put up they are attempting to define any state system as fascist. Now, I object to hierarchical power structures like the state as much as the next anarchist, but to lump all states in one category and call them all fascist, well, it is just silly posturing. Sort of reminds me of Maoists I met years ago who would spout ideological purity to an absurd degree. You do have to distinguish, clearly a state with representative democracy, such as Australia, is better than an authoritarian state, say like Pinochet's Chile.
The US becoming a truly fascist state is possible. Democracies fall. It don’t think the US holds some mystical power that makes it immune to radical change and change for the worse. The police didn’t go out guns blazing at BLM protestors, the military didn’t take over the streets, the courts rejected Trumps efforts to over turn election results, and local election officials were able to push back Trumps request to ‘find votes’ but pretty serious cracks appeared and if Trump and his followers run a successful campaign of lies and deception over the next 8 years who knows how deranged his followers will become and where the disconnect from truth will lead. Maybe the police will go out guns blazing, maybe maybe bombs will go off etc etc
There are some bad signs: it is a very divided country, there is a very sizeable part of the population who are unwilling to accept election results unless they go their way (didn't see them challenge the House, Senate etc outcomes which were part of the same election, plus, the coverage of some Trumpsters calling for an end to vote counting at the same time as others claimed counting must go on was laughable), violent (and likely armed) actions against members of congress, associating their movement with a strong leader represented as an outsider. Quite a few parallels there. Add into this that in many parts of the USA the local law is elected (sheriff, district attorney etc) and there is more than enough evidence to worry.
However, the USA has a long established government system and I would think is a lot more resilient than Weimar Germany, inter-war Italy or the Spanish Republic. The stacking of the Supreme Court is a worry but I retain hope, and do expect, that the USA will weather this crisis. I don't think it will weather it unharmed, and it is a dominant power which has seen its position in the world diminished, but I can't currently see a regime change to fascism or even authoritarianism.
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