• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    From the peanut gallery, aka me… Most business are run under a more fascist principle.

    I’m not talking about how the business operates in the market, or whatever… I’m talking about internal organizational behaviour.

    Things are often very “my way or the highway”, with management, owners, etc.

    Of course, not all businesses, but most follow some fairly fascist ideologies. They’ll tell you where to be, what to bring, what to do, when to stop… And hey, where are your papers? … I mean… Where is your company issued identification card?

    They’ll watch what you’re doing, monitor and surveil you as much as they are legally allowed, govern every moment that they can, of every day you’re working there.

    Capitalism and the pursuit of profit is their objective, the governance is fascist.

    Business leaders engage in fascism.

    … Why are we surprised that this brain rot is leaking out into actual politics? Trump is literally known for running businesses… Mostly into the ground/bankruptcy, but still. His whole thing is him being the boss. The ruler and Lord dictator over his tiny island. How are we so surprised that he’s a fascist? Shocked picachu

    The best move the Nazis made was convincing everyone that yeah, the Nazis lost and are gone forever… They’re literally hiding in plain sight.

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      4 months ago

      It should be of little surprise (and much more widespread knowledge) that just about everyone with money in the 1930s financially supported the actual Nazi party, including but not limited to Henry Ford and George W Bush’s grandfather.

      I actually disagree with the meme; capitalism is always fascism, just sometimes has a better PR team.

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        4 months ago

        sometimes with a better PR team

        Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.

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      4 months ago

      Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.

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        4 months ago

        Wasn’t fascism modelled after early feudalism?

        There were obvious differences, fascism has more nationalism and racism, IMO, but at the core, aren’t they extremely similar?

        I’m no expert on either. I just know enough to get myself into (and hopefully out of) trouble in these discussions.

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      4 months ago

      That’s not what fascism is. Fascism isn’t “when there are shitty strict rules”. In fact, classical fascism is a (failed) class collaborationist ideology where the state was supposed to mediate between interest groups of workers and bosses. protip: it didn’t. workers got screwed. (see corporatism, from the root word corpus, not corporation). Nazism didn’t do any of that but even they had their own garbage state-run labor front.

      But the point being, those business are beyond even fascism. It’s straight-up pure raw capitalist dictatorship.