If you think it’s bad now, it’s gonna get worse in the coming years.
Reading and analysing what’s been happening around us for the past 10-20 years, it’s clear that we’re in a Nazi Germany situation. And when fascism will be here, we will ask “how did that happen?”
The future looks bleak.
If it’s any consolation, comrade… We aint getting out of this world alive.
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Europe is shifting into fascism. At least Western/Northern Europe is. But as history has shown us, there will still be a lot of people willing to fight fascism. I personally have made a pact with some comrades from my party to go rogue if the far right party over here gets in power, as we cannot accept standing idly by while they do their things.
Material conditions in the West/North are decreasing fast for a lot of people. Foodbanks in Amsterdam for example now have a waiting line of two hours in the freezing cold. A big percentage of Belgian people are facing poverty at the moment. The left in both Belgium and The Netherlands is not staying still. Our party is collaborating with the unions and we are out on the streets daily, trying to mobilize the people. New socialist movements are starting in The Netherlands as well, gaining followers fast.
Fascism is rising and I’m not counting out one or multiple fascist states in Europe. But there will be people living there that will not go out without a fight, and right now socialism has a better track record against fascism. And when shit hits the fan internally in Europe/The US, the global south may be able to do their own things as well, especially with China’s focus on Africa and Latin America.
I have no Idea how are we getting out of this…
“Who’s ‘We’, Paleface?”
You’re from the Balkans, right?
We communists.
Yes, I’m from Balkans.
My brother in Christ, fascism started with Usonian independence and it hasn’t stopped since. If anything we are beginning to see liberation by its collapse, happy decades are a-coming.
I’d like to say this is true, but without a doubt the Amerikkkan state is crumbling and its not going out with out a fight. Not to mention the increased support for fascism is the general psych of the public with support of Ukraine. Most importantly however, queer rights are on the decrease, trans rights are going down the drain, gay ones will be next, and after that wouldn’t be surprised if civil rights are next.
(Note: This doesn’t mean im a doomer, if anything more people will become radicalized if they’re clearly on the chopping block, or care about helping those on it. Still just a note)
Everything you say is true … For the imperial core. In the global south things are looking much more positive. Cuba, Vietnam, China have all been taking very positive steps lately with respect to LGBT rights. A good number of leftist (albeit only socdem) governments in Latin America have been pushing back against neoliberalism. The global south is asserting itself economically and breaking free from neo-colonial domination. Yes there are still some countries where the imperialists are able to cause trouble, to temporarily reverse progress with coups like the ones that have taken place in Pakistan and Peru. But a lot of countries that have been in the crosshairs of the US for regime change are proving to be more and more resilient to US hybrid war and color revolution attempts. Iran, Syria, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, the empire has been taking a lot of L’s. And more will follow, some very big ones like losing the proxy war in Ukraine. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India, all once solid US allies now drifting away from the imperialist camp. Most of the world does not buy into the west’s propaganda about the Ukraine conflict. Most of the world regularly denounces the US embargo on Cuba, and everyone but the Anglos (US, UK, CAN, AUS), the Zionist apartheid state and the Europeans voted with Russia in the resolution against the spread of Nazi ideology. You have to put things in perspective. Yes westerners are very brainwashed and very reactionary and only getting worse. But at the end of the day they are a clear minority of the world’s population.
Thank you for giving a ray of hope. We need it to fight the fascism
Most importantly however, queer rights are on the decrease, trans rights are going down the drain, gay ones will be next, and after that wouldn’t be surprised if civil rights are next.
Makes me wonder, why the hell are these even happening? I thought people were aware why such rights were established in the first place? Or do they not teach that/have stopped teaching that in Western Academia?
In my experience I know all too much people who think the civil rights era, gay marriage, and trans care, all were established legally by just voooooooooooting hard. In a way the school system sets up people to not understand their rights so they can be taken easier.
capitalist “education”
I need to make a bot for this post any time fascism gets mentioned.
The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism: bourgeois parliamentarism.
British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially “becoming british colonialists.” This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.
Tried to reply to your more recent version of this comment but I don’t think it worked because the post was deleted.
I’d like to know more about this framing - I was under the impression that a key component of fascism is the turning inward of colonialist/imperialist tactics onto members of the working class and specifically minority groups within that class, and less that it was a specific movement aimed at colonizing other nations, white european or otherwise. It’s never seemed to me that the warnings about fascism and the anticommunism it upholds as well as the oppression it brings had any relation, moral or otherwise (not that moralizing has much to do with dialectical materialism), to colonialism.
I haven’t yet read any specific works analyzing fascism, but if you have any recommendations, I’d love to know.
No probs! There are hundreds of books written about fascism, and after reading a few of them, you realize these people are completely ignorant of the history of western colonialism, and unable to say how fascism differs essentially from any colonialist practices. Its such a heterodox term that its almost completely pointless to talk about… ask 10 people to define fascism and you’ll get 10 definitions.
I’d read Aime Cesare - Discourse on Colonialism, its short, and it’s the source of this idea. Not a single person who has tried to define fascism has been able to come up with a differentiator from previous colonialist practices (other than the color line).
There’s also a good chapter on Zak Cope - Divided World Divided class, on Germany, where he explains contrary to the popular “leftist opinion” that fascism was bad for the working classes of Germany, that no, actually the people of germany vastly benefited from its colonialism of eastern and western europe.
All right, thanks! I’ll check those out. On a related note, is Trotsky’s Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It worth my time?
I’d say so yes, it has a better class analysis of fascism than you get with most liberal dissections.
I want to expand in this. Colonialism IS a matter of material circumstance and a deliberate program for obtaining material, resources, and labor. It’s an action, a means of doing things.
As the global south rises; it will become more and more difficult to colonize; to imperialize. This DOES NOT MEAN that once colonialism can not colonize abroad, that the methode is defeated and done away with.
What it means is that a colonialism sent into retreat will seek the NEAREST vulnerable group to colonize and extract from. This means it will not target the people half way across the world, but will target even more desperately the community across the street labeled as people who DESERVE the violence. This will mean women, POC, LGBTQIA, and differently abled will once again be the immediate targets of either free labor, prison labor, or the enemies and agents of cultural and metaphysical, and religious corruption and rebellion.
Expect the fight.
