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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

all have severe issues with fascism right now

It's not an issue... fascism is a feature of classical liberal nation states - not a flaw.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

an issue for the populace

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullshit. Fascism is by definition antithetical to classical liberalism.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Really? Tell that to all the "liberal" regimes that enabled fascists when said liberals couldn't keep working-class revolt in check... Weimar Germany literally did that to crush the "Spartacist" revolt after WW1.

There's a saying amongst leftists - you can't have a harvest of fascism without liberals loosening the ground for it first. Fascism is not some "aberration" of the classical liberal nation state and it never was.