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[this is probably off-topic for this forum, but I found it on HN so...]

Edit "enjoy" the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233810

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a positive or pejorative term?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first comment by the first commenter is "Can we suspend Godwin's Law for a moment?" followed by an explanation of the ways in which The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an accurate description of reality.

Libertarianism is never far from Nazism. The Venn diagram is a circle. The only question is which circle contains the other.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Currently, I think (right-)libertarianism is a subset of fascism. In short:

  • Libertarians believe that people with more capital are inherently better than others and deserve all the power in society.
  • Fascists, in the abstract, believe that their ingroup is inherently better than the outgroup and deserves all power in society.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Both groups exalt the dictatorship of the market and ownership class and see it as simply the just enforcement of The Natural Order via survival of the fittest.

You can't have naked market capitalism and violent enforcement of private property restrictions without it being the groundwork for proto-fascism, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@swlabr @TinyTimmyTokyo libertarians are more likely to end up eaten by bears

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Symbolically speaking nazi germany was by and large eaten/def”eat”ed by the bear of Asia AKA the soviet union, so there’s that too