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obligatory Stalin quote

Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.

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i thought he meant FDR first lol, so i changed the title

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honestly he wasnt even much of a socdem. He just did some trust busting and regulation. Far from the worst liberal pres we've had tho.

Modi on the other hand...

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt are not the same people. Teddy was just an imperialist. Franklin was the "social democrat" (can he be called that if America never had a social democratic movement?)

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teddy wasnt just an imperialist, he was a part of the "progressive" movement. Which means he was an imperialist that also wanted the government to give nice things to white people

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

True. So that's a big similarity with social democrats. I've just never seen him called one before. It's fitting in a way.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Smith is like a standup. He's testing out his ideas in tweets to see if there's interest. And if there is - he'll write up a god-awful substack post. If we lived in a sane world - "Noah Smith" wouldn't be an actual person. He'd be the persona of an excellent comedian.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Funny because instead of breaking up monopolies, Modi is strengthening them.

[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

kelly No, a pin head

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Is this a diss on Modi bc Teddy was an violent imperialist monster?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

i didnt see what comm this was in and was about to shit on op this one is pretty stupid