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[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

The militarization of society is not a marker of every form of facism, facism comes in many different flavors

Now for the adoration of the distant past, that is also not a marker of fascism

Come on, dont say that fascism requires anti communism

You can just say "I'm using my own definition of fascism which doesn't agree with the general consensus of what fascism is, to refer to any regime I consider loosely authoritarian".

You need to look at fascism separately from the economic organizations of society

"You need to look at the socioeconomic system separately from the economic organizations of society". Fucking lol.

As for your point on the Uyghurs, if you think that rounding up an ethnic group and putting them in re-education

Agreed, that's very sus and not a policy I support, even in the context of prior terrorist attacks.

forced reproduction, and prison camps

I assume you mean forced sterilization. Sorry, but there's no serious evidence for that. The best you can point to is an inform by Amnesty International that is based off anonymous interviews. There's nothing pointing towards mass forced sterilisation of Uyghur people, in fact they were mostly left out of the single-child policy that China adopted unlike Han people, which explains partly why Uyghur went from being a minority to the majority ethnicity in Xinjiang. What a weird genocide, where the supposedly oppressive ethnicity is displaced in numbers by the supposedly oppressed ethnicity.

There were also hundreds more ethnic groups in China that have been culturally and literally genocided in recent history

I'd love to read on that, can you send me a source?

That doesnt mean, though, you should ignore what is happening and has happened in societies that are not strictly capitalist

I'm not ignoring it, I'm looking at the available evidence and determining that there's no active genocide. It's these types of false claims that were used to justify military intervention in other countries. Remember Nayirah's testimony used to justify in the US military action against Iraq. Or the exaggerated calls of genocide in Yugoslavia that were used to allow NATO to bomb the shit out of it and break it up into a collection of weak states, separating families.

[-] cristo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I believe you are misunderstanding a lot of what I am writing. And I don't think much of your reply to my comment has been constructive or an attempt to retort any of my opinion, just a "lol ur wrong" statement on all of it which in no way proves you right or me wrong. I am not using my own definition of fascism, if you read what I wrote, I am saying that what you are asking me to find in modern chinese society is not a marker of every form of fascism, and to quantify fascism by only those parameters is distracting from every other form of fascism that has been present in history. Its possible to be fascist and communist at the same time, its possible to be fascist and capitalist at the same time.

[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah no, I'm not misunderstanding. And no, I'm not doing a constructive answer because you're keen on talking about a definition of fascism that most people would disagree with, especially those who've spent a minute researching the origins of fascism and why it's an intrinsically reactionary movement that pops as a response from capitalism to threatening leftist movements.

[-] cristo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I use an academic definition not a reddit definition

[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Please show me where you found that academic description

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