• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Horseshoe theory isn’t real, Hitler and his fascists had to actively pretend to be Socialists to get votes - that’s not “horseshoe theory” it’s fascists actively lying.

      Fascism defends corporations, capitalism, and the wealthy. It’s “Capitalism’s immune system”. Hence it requires deception.

      Socialism defends the workers and community, It’s the Poor’s, working class, and underprivileged’s immune system… Then only in later or it’s own abusive, incomplete, or corrupted forms can it be weilded as the party/Authoritarian’s immune system. Only when it becomes a state based fascism is horseshoe theory credible.

      It’s the lack of democracy that is the difference. Democratic systems favour the majority, only when they fail is fascism produced. Nothing to do with Socialism (which requires a form of democracy where the proletariat majority is supposed to dictate what is to be done).

      “Elite Panic” is an example of this. The wealthy minority are the status quo, the community is the rest of is.

      It’s when that majority ceases to get a say that socialism is dissolved and a state authoritarianism can take over. But under honest analysis, that’s a new elite having taken over, NOT Socialism. It’s Socialism in name only, state fascism or authoritarianism in actuality.