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I added that in the body :) unless you explicitly differentiated from imperialism and colonialism, if so

How I understand it, imperialism is a general term describing a nation ruling over another, controlling the politics, the economy, the military, the media, etc; through either soft power, or hard power.

Colonialism is occupying the land, and with the same outcome as above. Imperialism is a general concept, colonialism is one of the means of imperialism, since you don't always need explicit colonialism to be imperialist. I hope I got that right lol

All systems can decay into tyranny, but what we call fascism is only really possible under capitalism. The closest non-capitalist example was the Soviet Union, which was definitely fucked up but wasn't really fascist in the traditional sense. Lots of Russian chauvinism? Definitely. Genocide? Absolutely. But no wider ethnic purity project along the lines of Nazi Germany. The distinguishing feature of fascism is its break-neck march towards collapse as more and more people are regarded as untermensch and fewer and fewer people are permitted to be ubermensch. Fascism is essentially murder-suicide as a political ideology (more accurately family of political ideology), and it's rare if not impossible for a non-capitalist system to produce that.

I agree, fascism is capitalism in crisis. Capitalism is always cruel as imperialism in the global south, but I'd say fascism is the most mask off form. Ultimately, capitalism is the root of the issue. The meme wasn't contradicting that

And no, it's not AI :)

No, thata bullshit.

We evolved to collaborate.

We were trained to beg daddy.

Edit: We do not live in a state of nature, stop assuming how we behave in all this is fundamental human behavior.

Both of those are capitalist, and of them only Russia is fascist. Genocide is a pretty good tell, but it's not in and of its own enough to declare a polity as fascist. That doesn't make the Uighur genocide and crew any less reprehensible, but not everything horrible is automatically fascist.

To call China fascist is definitely an... adventurous take. There are lots of criticism you can make of their government but fascism? It's not just a word for when the government does oppressive stuff. Their military spend is small, they don't have ambitions of military expansion and government control only really of Taiwan. While Han culture is promoted China is very clearly a multiethnic state and there are active efforts to preserve some diverse cultural heritage, they definitely don't promote violent political struggle and stratification of the strong over the weak - really I would levy criticism towards the intense pursuit of order.

They are culturally very conservative, a massive surveillance state, censorious on some things, and harsh towards certain kinds of political dissidents but this doesn't make a government fascist.

Words do mean things.