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Toby Rogers's avatar

I should add that no one on the left seems to object to this state of affairs. No one on the left objects to the fact that all things public health, climate, BLM, and trans are driven by billionaires with their own interests and agendas. In a former era this would have set off shrieks of protest about selling out. But now that there is no actually existing left, I guess no one is still around who might object to this takeover of the movement by the oligarchs.

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David Roberts's avatar

One of the biggest lies of the modern age is that fascism is somehow a creation of the conservative “right.” In fact, fascism was created by socialists who were frustrated by socialism’s lack of acceptance and progress, as a half-step. By allowing the capitalist company owners to retain their companies, there would not be the reaction to the seizing of assets that the Bolsheviks encountered. If you allow the owners to retain “ownership,” you can still control the firms through law, delivering the outcome without the backlash. The war between socialists and fascists was not a war between liberal and conservative, but between two sects of authoritarianism that differed about how best to achieve the same goal.

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