https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHgc5LsX58Ys-YysMi/ Why do people fear socialism, but not fascism? Why does the idea of workers owning the means of production scare millions, while police states, corpora...
  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    Because they don’t understand either one.

    It started with the cold war, though, when Communism became the boogeyman.

    • JillyB@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      Yep. Fascism is notoriously difficult to define. I was effectively a socialist for years before I looked into it and realized my ideals already had a label.

  • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Well, maybe tankies hadn’t warped the idea of socialism, broken it beyond any meaningful value to the working class and turned it into surrealist, blood-drenched terror the working class wouldn’t be so damn afraid of it.

      • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        unless you’ve been brainwashed.

        If you live in a nation state (which you do), you have already been subjected to the brainwashing - fascism is literally written into the laws of every one of them. It’s not people like Trump that normalises fascism - it was normalised a long time ago. Every time you see a cop driving down the street and understand that this cop can perpetrate any kind of violence they want on you while you are not allowed to defend yourself against any of it - that’s normalised fascism.

        This is why people fear fascism less - it’s just an escalation of the violent “normality” we already exist in.