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She still doesn't get it. Capitalism inevitably leads to fascism. It's a core feature.
Capitalism leads to corporate monopolies leads to fascism.
Yes. I really don't get it. Everybody has played monopoly but it seems like nobody has learned the lessons of the game.
Unregulated capitalism CAN lead to fascism.
It doesn’t have to.
Just like communism all around the world has similarly basically always led to fascism and dictatorship, but it doesn’t have to.
Humans are always the problem. Plans don’t meet humans well.
Fascism is a tool that capitalists use when capitalism is threatened by rising class consciousness. It’s not something that a society just “falls into.” Also, fascism is ideologically the opposite of communism. You can have a communist dictatorship, but you’re not going to find a fascist version.
It hasn't "led" to anything; Marxist-Leninism is explicitly authoritarian. That said, it's not fascism, that is not what that word means.
We're on our second run of capitalism leading to fascism across the Western world in the exact same way along the exact same fault lines.
An economic system isn't a plan; it's the context within which economic activity (including said plans) take place.
And capitalism has killed millions more than the other ideologies too, even more than theocracies, all because people can't afford food and medicine
No I don’t think your AND should be added to what I’m saying. You can say that elsewhere as it’s own standalone. Ty.