ProxyTheAwesome

replace American with Russian/Chinese and you have modern day Reddit accurately described to a T

"structure where success (aka approval by your citizens) is rewarded and failure... is punished" sounds better and more democratic than "robust elections" anyway, and sort of like pedantry because the elections are still occurring and are official and fair.

what specifically is incorrect? do you have examples?

If this results in the collapse of western hegemony and the Amerikkkan empire then I'll have to hand it to him

It's worth noting this is only really true for imperialist nations and not for former colonies or periphery states. Social Democracy have their limits and issues, but they can often be genuine improvements in nations like Venezuela or Bolivia when they actually serve an anti-imperialist function (uniting the nation to kick out compradors and foreign capitalists and colonizers). Contrast this with Boric, who is a soc dem sell-out disconnected from the working class entirely who acts as a comprador - so they're not always good but have to be evaluated case-by-case basis.

The Germans are not OK

Germans don't get to talk about their own WW2 history with any authority, you get to sit down and listen because it was your grandparents that fucked up and it was them that were re-installed back into power and it was them that determined your cultural and educational upbringing. You are the least qualified people on Earth to talk about fascism or German history with any arrogance. You should feel a lot more shame, and do a lot more listening to the communists.

if it weren't for the US involvment in WW2, I might be living in a fascist shithole today.

Thank the Russians, not the Americans. It was American money that helped install Hitler by the way, and the Nazis were directly inspired by American "manifest destiny" (ie land theft and genocide) to do their Eastward cleansing. You are victim of propaganda that has completely re-written history

He could have gone out in a blaze of glory in 2016 or 2020 even, but instead he chose to slither out like a slug whimpering

Social Democrats are the moderate wing of fascism. Fascists are the extreme wing of fascism. That's his point. They are symbiotic twins, two cogs in a machine that work in tandem

He's saying that Social Democracy and Fascism form the left and right fists of the bourgeois imperialist states. They don't oppose each other from the perspective of those outside the empire and facing it's attacks, they support and regulate each other. Without Social Democracy regulating and sustaining capitalism and mitigating its crises the economic system would collapse and internal crisis would dominate and the empire would be unable to sustain outward pressure. Without Fascism, a social democratic Liberal state would transition into socialism and go too far - so it keeps fascism around to keep the socialists in check. Fascism is the necessary violence of the capitalist state, even a social democratic state, to sustain itself and enforce the limits of democracy (ie, to not allow the poor to vote away the wealth of the rich. There must be a hardline protection against that).

From the perspective of those outside of "Social Democratic Liberal Democracies" facing their imperialism, all they are seeing is fascism being imported into their country and invasions and meddling from fascist attacks. The social democrats keep things stable at home so that the fascist imperialists can extract value from the colonies and beat down any leftists inside the core. The fascists brutally destroy communists and leftists on behalf of capital, while being fed and clothed by the social democrats. It's a symbiotic marriage.

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