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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

If the Confederacy existed today you'd call it a fascist state with zero mental conflict, but Orwell actually addressed a similar situation with criticizing Kipling that he resolved by simply calling him a pre-fascist.

No, they do not meet a technical definition of the term on a policy level, but if they'd been around in 1930 you bet your ass they'd have been babbling about Autarky and such.