Fascism is not the result of stupidity but the result of capitalist crisis.
Fascism is what happens when social safety nets are removed, wages are withheld, education is withered, healthcare is not obtainable, and transportation crumbles.
I’d amend that to say fascism is what happens when capitalists allow those things to proliferate, then get scared that people will fight back. While fascism is indeed a petit-bourgeois ideology that arises from that class’s reaction to capitalist crisis, it’s important to remember that it is the bourgeois who are fascism’s beneficiaries and who are the first to foment it during crises.
What a pathetic existence you have to become to fall for something so stupid.
And to get ahead of the dumbness, them “really believing it” is being a pathetic enough existence to fall for something so stupid.
Fascism is not the result of stupidity but the result of capitalist crisis.
Fascism is what happens when social safety nets are removed, wages are withheld, education is withered, healthcare is not obtainable, and transportation crumbles.
I’d amend that to say fascism is what happens when capitalists allow those things to proliferate, then get scared that people will fight back. While fascism is indeed a petit-bourgeois ideology that arises from that class’s reaction to capitalist crisis, it’s important to remember that it is the bourgeois who are fascism’s beneficiaries and who are the first to foment it during crises.