@Hikermick@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1848arrow-down15
arrow-up1843arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.org@Hikermick@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-square@diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-23 months agoThis is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus. Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay. Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
minus-squareZephyrXerolinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoPeople aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught. And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally
This is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus.
Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay.
Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
People aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught.
And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally