Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: Understanding Fascism

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An audience member of Ask Prof Wolff LIVE asks: "Fascism is when the state and corporations merge, so why isn’t the system that China has considered fascist? Is it fascist, is it not?"

Prof Wolff answered this question during a live Ask Prof Wolff event.

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[rigoreis]

Should be asking why the system in the U.S. isn't considered fascist. The corporations run the government.

[ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

Mussolini himself even suggested that fascism should be called "corporatism".

[cheri]

Thank you everyday Professor Wolff!!! Always music to my ears your critiques. You are hard rock on. HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL.⛄️🌲☃️🎶

[hilaryporter]

That's what the government's are doing both in the US and the UK. In the UK specifically, they are subsidising the employer in the case of the railways to keep going so that the industrial conflict can be drawn out to the detriment of the workers. That to mind is verging on fascism.

[monkowell]

He summarized State and Revolution by Lenin. The State serves to either create class or dismantle class.

[alanjames]

Thank you Prof Wolff, this a needed Topic for everyone and I will. Be sharing it with everyone.

[hermenutic]

The employer not only needs employees it needs customers every bit as much.
Most of us fall into the customer/employee category.
That is a lot of power that needs to be organized in order to facilitate social change. Power to the consumer, power to the employees.

[cliffordmaxwell]

The railroad workers are just the beginning!

[leeeiner]

The question is like saying the dictatorship of capital is equivalent to the dictatorship of the proletariat because "dictatorship."

[azdinz]

It's rarely when we hear this kind of speech in today's media, please keep educating people, most of us are brainwashed after decades of fake news and manipulation

[shawn]

Fellow workers, travelers and community members:

I promise I will talk to my local community, spend a few minutes discussing unionism to any worker, and take direct positive action towards egalitarianism. Until every town has a train station, until every industry has a workers council, until every building has a tenants union, until every oppressed identity has an association, and all of them are woven together with federated strength. I promise I'll organize forever.

[ff]

When the state and corporations merge so basically the USA

[lesliemartin]

Rosa Luxembourg and Leibknecht stood against capitalism and were assassinated in Germany in 1919. Luxemburg’s body was thrown into a canal. Sorry. I just had to share that.

[MathUDX]

To me Trotsky had the most consistent definition of fascism: it's simply the repression and violence that follows after a failed revolution to overthrow capitalism. If you follow the definition as merging capitalist and state power, that's actually true for many periods throughout the history of capitalism and you don't have a very useful word. Fascism is the reaction of the capitalist class after the defeat of a revolutionary movement, their behavior can all be understood in the context of emboldenment, doing all the things they always wanted to do but weren't socially acceptable until a moment of crisis.

[noheroespublishing]

Lenin said it best.

Capitalism is "Democracy" for the Rich (Liberal Democracy).

Socialism is Democracy for the Poor (Workers Democracy).

[EvolutionWendy]

*_You Blew My Mind!_*
Thank you Professor Wolfe, this gave me insight into the world I see.

[bumbleguppy]

So if say, the US Govt were to pass legislation to prevent I don't know...railroad workers, from striking to force them back to work for their employer...that would be fascist.

[Googlag]

Professor, can you tell us how many American and British companies sponsored the economy of Hitler's Germany? "Let Germany and the USSR exhaust each other, at the end of the "war, England will become the master of the situation in Europe" - the words of the Minister of Aviation Industry of Great Britain D. Moore-Brabazon.

The Soviet leadership had been asking the Allies for a long time to open a second front, which was opened by the landing of Allied troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944. When the Soviet Army could already put the squeeze on the fascists alone. The Allies pulled to the last.
IMHO I don't believe in coincidences especially where people are involved, I'm not an idiot!

[chj.schwarz]

Gotta be honest, I can't really follow how the CCP is on the side of workers and not employers. They hate strikes, protests or anything like that, workers have next to no rights, there's no participation in politics. How's that not a merger of state and employers against employees? And didn't a similar thing happen in Russia? Would love to hear your thoughts on that. I have a slight feeling that we're praising Chinese state capitalism for stuff it isn't doing just because the west is awful.

[sl-lzdw]

If the United States changed from first past the post voting to ranked choice voting, it'd be interesting to see how many would write in as their first choice Prof. Wolff or someone similar. We might end up with a far better country than one where we are effectively forced to vote for a selection from a list of bad choices.