• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

    That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

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      Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.

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          1. I never said the solution was full-blown communism. God, have the barest capability of nuance.

          2. You clearly aren’t smoking responsibly if you genuinely believe that to be true.