Modern capitalism: You have two cows, you sell one cow and buy a laptop and webcam. You livestream videos of your remaining cow doing cow things and then you retire.
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Yeah, that's what the geniuses over at r/communism keep telling themselves
yeah well you can knock that off an' all 
Fascism doesn't have a clear definition for two reasons. The first being that it doesn't have an ethos or much of a classic philosophical backbone. There is no Marx or manifesto or fascist thinkers in the traditional sense. The second, and this is very crucial, is that fascism is a direct reaction to communism in that it's mass politics of the right. It takes the rallies/riots/demonstrations, propaganda, and radio broadcast of early 20th century communism and inverts it:
1. Communism believes in a stateless society whereas fascism is ultra nationalistic.
2. Communism believes said stateless society will lead to the obviation of war whereas fascism is ultra-militaristic.
3. Communism largely ignores race and culture as an unnecessary byproduct of society whereas believes fascism in the preservation of race/cultural identity at all costs (as in Hitler's Volksgemeinshaft).
4. Communism, as Marx envisioned it, would not need an authoritarian government because the stateless egalitarian society would need very little "governing." The people are the state. Fascism believes in an all powerful government of unlimited power. (It's important to note that what Marx said and what Lenin did are two very different things).
There should probably be a few more bullet points but I'm working off of memory from college. The main thing to remember is mass political movements of the left vs mass political movements of the right, though both essentially look the same if you're staring down at them from a third story window. The real fascism, derived from the "fasces," a bundle of sticks used to protect the Roman tribunate (symbolically, I believe), is Italian in nature via Mussolini. Hitler's version was far more optimized but is uniquely German. Basically after WWI wiped out an entire generation of young men, ended the Enlightenment, ended the monarchal system, and ended the European military caste system (particularly in Germany), it left all these broken societal elements that found themselves adrift in failing liberalism. Some of the ingredients coalesced into Communism while others reacted with fascism. Kind of a fight fire with fire thing. The commies were rallying and making noise so the right had to do the same.
1. Communism believes in a stateless society whereas fascism is ultra nationalistic.
2. Communism believes said stateless society will lead to the obviation of war whereas fascism is ultra-militaristic.
3. Communism largely ignores race and culture as an unnecessary byproduct of society whereas believes fascism in the preservation of race/cultural identity at all costs (as in Hitler's Volksgemeinshaft).
4. Communism, as Marx envisioned it, would not need an authoritarian government because the stateless egalitarian society would need very little "governing." The people are the state. Fascism believes in an all powerful government of unlimited power. (It's important to note that what Marx said and what Lenin did are two very different things).
There should probably be a few more bullet points but I'm working off of memory from college. The main thing to remember is mass political movements of the left vs mass political movements of the right, though both essentially look the same if you're staring down at them from a third story window. The real fascism, derived from the "fasces," a bundle of sticks used to protect the Roman tribunate (symbolically, I believe), is Italian in nature via Mussolini. Hitler's version was far more optimized but is uniquely German. Basically after WWI wiped out an entire generation of young men, ended the Enlightenment, ended the monarchal system, and ended the European military caste system (particularly in Germany), it left all these broken societal elements that found themselves adrift in failing liberalism. Some of the ingredients coalesced into Communism while others reacted with fascism. Kind of a fight fire with fire thing. The commies were rallying and making noise so the right had to do the same.
Aside from mein kampf of course, and more recently things like 'harrasment architecture' by Mike Ma, or the turner diaries by William Luther Pierce
But no concentration camps, Jews are friendly minority around here because other people who live here were in those camps too.
That's because most were executed after the Axis invasion of 1941, particularly in Serbia, if I remember correctly. The remainer found their way to the death camps in 1944, I think. I'm not sure exactly where you're from Pik but I'm assuming it's one of the former Yugoslav republics. Not exactly a historical bastion of ethnic tolerance, but who was?
i thought there were quite a lot of concentration camps in what at the time was independent croatia under nazi rule. Jasenovac is the best known but there were others
after the war Goli Otok island was used as forced labour camp for political prisoners by the tito regime, effectively a Gulag
after the war Goli Otok island was used as forced labour camp for political prisoners by the tito regime, effectively a Gulag
In other Happy Thread News, I'm happy that the Patriots are kicking ass again and playing on Thursday night. It's like a regional holiday again.
Yes a lot of the Jews were executed, I sometimes feel like the US supported my country because of the Jews living there, we have Catholics and Muslims and Orthodox Christians here along with other minorities, and it's one of the former Yugoslav countries famous for the 90s war and the 80s Olympics.
