https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/14/its-time-we-called-it-what-it-fascism
December 14, 2020
The epic thrash we’re witnessing is because the forces of
capitalism, seeing a terminal economic crash approaching, are attempting to
preemptively replace democracy with authoritarianism—fascism—so that they can
control the outcome.
When the economy in a democratic but capitalist country fails,
there are two alternatives. You can modify the economic system. Or, you can
modify the political system.
When you modify the economic system (capitalism) but retain the
political system (democracy), you have the arrangement the U.S. has lived under
since capitalism failed in the 1930s, in the Great Depression.
The other alternative is where the economic system (capitalism) is
retained but the political system (democracy) is discarded and replaced with
authoritarianism. This is fascism and is what happened in Germany, also in the
1930s.
The battle between capitalism and democracy is the conflict that is
being fought out in the U.S. right now. The epic thrash we’re witnessing is
because the forces of capitalism, seeing a terminal economic crash approaching,
are attempting to preemptively replace democracy with
authoritarianism—fascism—so that they can control the outcome. A quick look at
history shows us the pattern.
