I've often characterized, in the context of the US, Neoliberalism as post-fascism with the Progressive era (1930s-1970s) as the Fascist era. Progressive (Soc-Dem) policies sound good to the citizens at the core of an Empire but due to their structure and adherence to Capitalist relations of production, require the rape and pillage of the Imperial periphery. In order to prevent Capital flight in the face of high taxes, the US had to ensure brutal economic exploitation of the Global South. There's a saying in Chile "when US citizens begin calling for welfare, Chileans begin to sweat"
@@comradetrashpanda8777 the Progressive Movement doesn't appear to be fascist by Wolfs definition in this video. Just standing is that the corporate class of the time was quite unhappy with progressivism because they were kept at arm's lengths, if you will.
Capitalists are greedy individualists. It's no wonder that they destroy communities and governments in their efforts to constantly grab more. This is all capitalists... really all merchants.
The term actually has to do with the Latin "corpus" meaning body, as in the economy should be one collaborative body in service of the nation, not related to the word corporation as commonly believed
@@jerryjones7293 Today in modern times, when corporations conspire with governments to pass laws that favor the corporations over the people, that is called fascism, aka fascist capitalism, aka corporate fascism.
@@kevinschmidt2210 "Today in modern times, when corporations conspire with governments to pass laws that favor the corporations over the people, that is called -fascism- neoliberalism" fascism is when the neoliberalism use violence from police or army to force people to obey to corporations
@@merlin2368 Wrong! It is called fascism. Neoliberalism is a form of fascism. You don't need violence to exist to prove fascism exists. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own reality.
That's what the government's are doing both in the US and the UK. In the UK specifically, they are subsidising the employer in the case of the railways to keep going so that the industrial conflict can be drawn out to the detriment of the workers. That to mind is verging on fascism.
it IS Facism to deny the people their right to association and to organize as these are basic democratic RIGHTS because employers don't like it. This is part of the problem Facism is not being called out in the USA, AU and UK because "the economy"
Rosa Luxembourg and Leibknecht stood against capitalism and were assassinated in Germany in 1919. Luxemburg’s body was thrown into a canal. Sorry. I just had to share that.
The employer not only needs employees it needs customers every bit as much. Most of us fall into the customer/employee category. That is a lot of power that needs to be organized in order to facilitate social change. Power to the consumer, power to the employees.
It's rarely when we hear this kind of speech in today's media , please keep educating people, most of us are brainwashed after decades of fake news and manipulation
So if say, the US Govt were to pass legislation to prevent I don't know...railroad workers, from striking to force them back to work for their employer...that would be fascist.
Gotta be honest, I can't really follow how the CCP is on the side of workers and not employers. They hate strikes, protests or anything like that, workers have next to no rights, there's no participation in politics. How's that not a merger of state and employers against employees? And didn't a similar thing happen in Russia? Would love to hear your thoughts on that. I have a slight feeling that we're praising Chinese state capitalism for stuff it isn't doing just because the west is awful.
I agree. I would consider all of the US, China AND Russia as fascist. The US is just seeing the worst side of fascism because we are also a dying empire so the government is getting more draconian and honest about what it is.
Fellow workers, travelers and community members: I promise I will talk to my local community, spend a few minutes discussing unionism to any worker, and take direct positive action towards egalitarianism. Until every town has a train station, until every industry has a workers council, until every building has a tenants union, until every oppressed identity has an association, and all of them are woven together with federated strength. I promise I'll organize forever.
Professor, can you tell us how many American and British companies sponsored the economy of Hitler's Germany? "Let Germany and the USSR exhaust each other, at the end of the "war, England will become the master of the situation in Europe" - the words of the Minister of Aviation Industry of Great Britain D. Moore-Brabazon. The Soviet leadership had been asking the Allies for a long time to open a second front, which was opened by the landing of Allied troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944. When the Soviet Army could already put the squeeze on the fascists alone. The Allies pulled to the last. IMHO I don't believe in coincidences especially where people are involved, I'm not an idiot!
IBM. Walt Disney was a fascist, William Hearsley who created a global media empire buying up a lot of the media outlets was a fascist, Ford motor company supported the movement but didn´t "condone the violence" If you don´t believe this it is still possible to get copies, for instance in massive libraries, of out of date newspapers of the 1930s. Which included New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail of Britain and hundreds of others. WW2 put an end to these articles when the fascist problem was exposed to even more people. William Hearsley was told that a free press allowed him to spread bs about socialism and communism but promoting fascism was a red line.
Unfortunately Lenin (like many others of his time) was operating on a definition of democracy that had already been perverted and distorted to an Orwellian caricature in the early 19th century.
To me Trotsky had the most consistent definition of fascism: it's simply the repression and violence that follows after a failed revolution to overthrow capitalism. If you follow the definition as merging capitalist and state power, that's actually true for many periods throughout the history of capitalism and you don't have a very useful word. Fascism is the reaction of the capitalist class after the defeat of a revolutionary movement, their behavior can all be understood in the context of emboldenment, doing all the things they always wanted to do but weren't socially acceptable until a moment of crisis.
I think repression and violence are merely the tools a state or other powerful entity always use to enforce their interests, whatever that may be, whether capitalism, slavery, monarchy, theocracy, or other. If it seems as though Prof. Wolff's definition of fascism can be broadly applied, that's because there is a lot of fascism in the world ~ it is all too common. If we only wait for violence to call it fascism, by that time it's way too late. We need to see fascism for what it is ~ government working for the owner class ~ wherever it appears, and nip it in the bud.
@@bluewater454 they spent the last year doing that. This was the end of the constraints built into the contract which is why Congress had to pass legislation in less than one week to make the strike illegal. If Congress didn't act the union had every right under their labor contract to start a strike on December 9th. The same thing happened in the middle of the summer when Biden declared mission accomplished in avoiding the ability of labor to strike because they passed a 90 day cooling off period through Congress forcing the railroad workers back to work for the last 3 months without a contract agreement.
@@DanA-nl5uo Ah well, if what you are saying is true then this is a great illustration for why congress should not be interfering with contracts. And if I am not mistaken that is actually unconstitutional according to article 1 of the US Constitution - which they probably haven’t read. They actually have legal standing to fight that. This is why I love America. Not because it is perfect, but because here we at least have the tools to fight against the corruption that is inevitable when dealing with evil people.
@@bluewater454 The Railway Labor Act, enacted in 1926, allows the president to intervene in disputes that “threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service" There is long stand law that saids what Congress has done is legal in the USA
@@DanA-nl5uo Laws like that can be defeated. Look at what just happened to roe. Hundred year old state gun laws have been declared unconstitutional because of the bruin case this year. We have an extremely constitutionally minded Supreme Court right now. An unconstitutional law like the Railway Labor Act could be challenged. I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer, but I can read. We can fight bad laws. It is done all the time.
If the United States changed from first past the post voting to ranked choice voting, it'd be interesting to see how many would write in as their first choice Prof. Wolff or someone similar. We might end up with a far better country than one where we are effectively forced to vote for a selection from a list of bad choices.
"The Senate has approved a bill IMPOSING a new UNION contract of tens of thousands of rail workers and PROHIBITING them from going on strike." ...just 15 senators voted against the legislation last Thursday.
Basically, public-sector/public-sectors - private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors partnerships. Right? Of which exist(s), at least established, "somewhat" entrenched, if not exist(s), established and mostly entrenched power(s), privilege(s) and prestige(s), is. In any jurisdiction, considered or deemed or regarded as first-world. Localities/municipalities/communities...urban(e), at least sub-urban cities, you may want to settle, has "some" arrangement like this.
*as first-world, also upper second-world. Also, public-sectors on-behalf of or at-the-behest of, private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors or oftentimes, public-sectors alone, not simply public-sector/public-sectors - private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors partnerships. Fyi: just thought I'd add that.
"white"(, as in right-wing orientated/aligned/based/related, also white-collar, more so than "white" "people") fascism, to "social"(, as in centre-left proper and broadly orientated/aligned/based/related, also blue-collar) fascism. Finally, "red"(, left-wing proper and broadly) fascism, a broader worker(/laborer) attraction and appeal. All authoritarian/totalitarian, disciplinarian, autocratic or anocratic variations of the public-sectors, in essence.
US. Congress just voted to forbid the rail workers from striking and to force them to go back to work. Their demand was for 15 days paid sick leave. They get no paid sick leave. The billionaire railroad owners made record profits this year.
@@bluewater454 I think there are a good many examples and to mention just one, Singapore in late 1900's. More importantly, is the manner in which the elements of fascism was implemented, and whether benevolent to that society at the time or not?
@@zazhou fascism is an ideology that became popular in the early 1900’s. I don’t think that most people today understand anything about it, except to use the term as a pejorative to describe any political ideology that they don’t like. Leftists in particular seem to love doing this. The conversation is pathetic without a real discussion about its philosophy.
@@bluewater454 I think that is true and there are degrees of fascism (government and corporate and social contract), meaning it is usually not an all or nothing philosophy.
Prof Wollf, if you have knowlege of them, can you do a show on "SLABS" (Student Loan Asset-backed securities) and their possible relationship to student loan forgiveness being blocked. I read somewhere that Nebraska Pension fund is financed through SLABS. Than
I'm interested in the fascist economic model of rewarding the highest grossing businesses with lucrative state partnerships. Seems like an inversion from the late stage capitalist thing where much of our government becomes an arm of big biz. End results are awful in similar ways though. Is U.S. gov persuing a fascist model when they give the highest grossing businesses tax breaks and public money or is it just because theyre bought?
What do you think Biden squashing the railroad workers from striking is? Denying people sick days to benefit the rail companies' management is benefiting capital. And there are a host of laws that favor capitalists over workers. Crappy minimum wage laws. All the laws making unions harder to firm. Laws that let non union workers freeload off union benefits. Wake up, we have long been a fascist nation.
@@charlenek11 Fascism is literally a branch of socialism and yes I agree, we are FAR too socialist. Something benefiting capitalists doesn't make it capitalistic, it is still government interfering in the economy. Wake up, we have long been a fascist nation lead by democrats.
Please, professor Wolf, do Spanish people who lived, died, and suffered under Fascism with Francisco Franco, name us the next time. Actually, the fact that Franco's regime stopped being named Fascist and was named a dictatorship so that it could still exist for the profit and benefits of the imperialist neocolonial policies of the USA and the UK does not alter the truth. The word for defining Franco was changed for that purpose, but it continued as ever. Spain is under-studied and unrecognized for what it was and is an example of the connection between Colonialism and underdevelopment as tactics in foreign policy.
Remember Reagan coming down on the Air Traffic Control guys? Screw them. If I don't want to work somewhere I quit! You can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink as they say.
''You have all offices and machines etc ----but without people you have scrap''------------------Not if you computerize and robotize everything-------------------Kraftwerk ''Ja tvoi sluga Ja tvoi robot'' Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
What is fascism? Well, for me, fascism is the sound that's made when I've had too many sugar-free lemon cough drops. The gastro-economy is simple: When supply keeps pace with demand, the system breaks down... from the inside out. Within two day, inevitable is a gastro-revolution. It's like a yellow bell going off. In Chinese, they call it a Wang Chung. Who's feeling the need to Dance Hall Days. Capeesh
There are two distinct differences between communism and fascism. The first is that communism is international in nature and fascism is national. Second, under communism the notion of all private property was discarded. Under fascism corporations operated, but under strict mandates and oversight of the government. The state and corporations did not "merge" under fascism. The state pretty much dictated what and how much was produced, and often how much in profits the corporations could make.
@YTCensors _"Com munism is an economic system. Fasc ism is a politcal system. The two can easily coexist. As can crap italism and fas cism. "_ Incorrect. Both com munism and fas cism are political ideologies which use soci alism as their economic model. Both are against capita lism.
Communism is a marxist idea about how to end things like systemic exploitation,totalitarianism,centralized authority,and the class war that roughly 90% of people have been losing since neolithic times. Fascism is about strengthening state and nation through centralized totalitarian control,obedience,patriotism,and expansion wars. Either can be criticized without obfuscating definitions.
@YTCensors _" in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals."_ That is called so cial ism, i.e. collective ownership or control of the means of production. Co mmuni sm is political end goal of m arx ism, i.e. stateless and classless society.
Facsists destroy all the working class movements. That is true. It goes beyond that where they want to have global domination where they can do what they want in other people´s countries. Yet do not accept people of other cultures or other languages in their own country. They want the rest of the world to adopt their language, their ideology, their economic system etc and are prepared to use violent force. In other words imperialistic and nationalistic at the same time.
The Nutty Professor talks about the U.S. Government forcing modern day American employees to go to work against their will and says, "I'll give you an example" and then refers to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930's. LOL. Yale, Harvard and Stanford must be proud of their boy.
@@TC-eo5eb They didn't hire him, so probably not. Of course, the credibility of these institutions is diminishing with time, and they clearly are not required in the pursuit of knowledge by those genuinely curious. Unfortunately, the number of "genuinely curious" is also in serious decline so the trend seems to be, to pick the narrative that is convenient to ones circumstance, and reject everything that is inconvenient to it.
@@jgalt308 Ironic how your feeble attempts to discredit credible institutions of higher learning is based on your incredibly wrong and easily discredited outlook of reality.
WARNING!!!!!! we have heard from the "willfully ignorant, functionally illiterates" so described, who insisted on confirming the description, while having no relevant response or argument to what has been written. Truly, democracy at work.
@@benangel3268 _"He is saying that fascists destroy the movements that are there to unite the workforce and campaign for better wages and working conditions. "_ Then he is wrong. Fa scis m specifically operated through tra de union ism / national syn dicali sm, which united the workers, employers and the state.
SEEMS TO ME THAT THE CAPITALISTS IN GERMANY DID NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO FORCE PEOPLE TO WORK. PEOPLE WERE GOING HUNGRY WITH THE DEPRESSION AND WERE HAPPY TO WORK. FASCISM IS BETTER DEFINED AS A BRAZEN FUSION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISTS WITH A TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT FETISHIZES THE NATIONAL ENTITY EMBODIED BY AN OPPORTUNIST LEADER.
Although we have a general definition of fascism and its characteristics which can be seen in Hitler's Germany , Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Orban's Hungary and many other places, the Nazis did not call themselves "fascist", as Prof Wolff states at the beginning. For them, "Fascist" was Mussolini's party in Italy and Hitler saw himself and his party as being very different. Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" differentiates between the two in that Italy was a dictatorship but not totalitarian like Nazi Germany.
Should be asking why the system in the U.S. isn't considered fascist. The corporations run the government.
I've often characterized, in the context of the US, Neoliberalism as post-fascism with the Progressive era (1930s-1970s) as the Fascist era. Progressive (Soc-Dem) policies sound good to the citizens at the core of an Empire but due to their structure and adherence to Capitalist relations of production, require the rape and pillage of the Imperial periphery. In order to prevent Capital flight in the face of high taxes, the US had to ensure brutal economic exploitation of the Global South.
There's a saying in Chile "when US citizens begin calling for welfare, Chileans begin to sweat"
No, they don't.
@@comradetrashpanda8777 the Progressive Movement doesn't appear to be fascist by Wolfs definition in this video. Just standing is that the corporate class of the time was quite unhappy with progressivism because they were kept at arm's lengths, if you will.
Capitalists are greedy individualists. It's no wonder that they destroy communities and governments in their efforts to constantly grab more.
This is all capitalists... really all merchants.
@@jgalt308 Who runs the government?
Mussolini himself even suggested that fascism should be called "corporatism".
The term actually has to do with the Latin "corpus" meaning body, as in the economy should be one collaborative body in service of the nation, not related to the word corporation as commonly believed
You can find this in The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini.
@@jerryjones7293 Today in modern times, when corporations conspire with governments to pass laws that favor the corporations over the people, that is called fascism, aka fascist capitalism, aka corporate fascism.
@@kevinschmidt2210
"Today in modern times, when corporations conspire with governments to pass laws that favor the corporations over the people, that is called -fascism- neoliberalism"
fascism is when the neoliberalism use violence from police or army to force people to obey to corporations
@@merlin2368 Wrong! It is called fascism. Neoliberalism is a form of fascism. You don't need violence to exist to prove fascism exists.
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own reality.
Thank you Prof Wolff, this a needed Topic for everyone and I will. Be sharing it with everyone.
Thank you everyday Professor Wolff!!! Always music to my ears your critiques. You are hard rock on. HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL.⛄️🌲☃️🎶
That's what the government's are doing both in the US and the UK. In the UK specifically, they are subsidising the employer in the case of the railways to keep going so that the industrial conflict can be drawn out to the detriment of the workers. That to mind is verging on fascism.
it IS Facism to deny the people their right to association and to organize as these are basic democratic RIGHTS because employers don't like it. This is part of the problem Facism is not being called out in the USA, AU and UK because "the economy"
In the US, Congress just voted to force the rail workers to work, forbidding a strike. By Prof. Wolff's definition, that is fascism.
Its not governments its corrporations exploiting for profit.
He summarized State and Revolution by Lenin. The State serves to either create class or dismantle class.
Rosa Luxembourg and Leibknecht stood against capitalism and were assassinated in Germany in 1919. Luxemburg’s body was thrown into a canal. Sorry. I just had to share that.
The railroad workers are just the beginning!
The employer not only needs employees it needs customers every bit as much.
Most of us fall into the customer/employee category.
That is a lot of power that needs to be organized in order to facilitate social change. Power to the consumer, power to the employees.
Shop small business.
It's rarely when we hear this kind of speech in today's media , please keep educating people, most of us are brainwashed after decades of fake news and manipulation
Yes, bc its capitalism. Goverments are just pupets al the time.
*_You Blew My Mind!_*
Thank you Professor Wolfe, this gave me insight into the world I see.
The question is like saying the dictatorship of capital is equivalent to the dictatorship of the proletariat because "dictatorship."
So if say, the US Govt were to pass legislation to prevent I don't know...railroad workers, from striking to force them back to work for their employer...that would be fascist.
Exactly.
Gotta be honest, I can't really follow how the CCP is on the side of workers and not employers. They hate strikes, protests or anything like that, workers have next to no rights, there's no participation in politics. How's that not a merger of state and employers against employees? And didn't a similar thing happen in Russia? Would love to hear your thoughts on that. I have a slight feeling that we're praising Chinese state capitalism for stuff it isn't doing just because the west is awful.
I agree. I would consider all of the US, China AND Russia as fascist. The US is just seeing the worst side of fascism because we are also a dying empire so the government is getting more draconian and honest about what it is.
When the state and corporations merge so basically the USA
Exactly.
Fellow workers, travelers and community members:
I promise I will talk to my local community, spend a few minutes discussing unionism to any worker, and take direct positive action towards egalitarianism. Until every town has a train station, until every industry has a workers council, until every building has a tenants union, until every oppressed identity has an association, and all of them are woven together with federated strength. I promise I'll organize forever.
Professor, can you tell us how many American and British companies sponsored the economy of Hitler's Germany? "Let Germany and the USSR exhaust each other, at the end of the "war, England will become the master of the situation in Europe" - the words of the Minister of Aviation Industry of Great Britain D. Moore-Brabazon.
The Soviet leadership had been asking the Allies for a long time to open a second front, which was opened by the landing of Allied troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944. When the Soviet Army could already put the squeeze on the fascists alone. The Allies pulled to the last.
IMHO I don't believe in coincidences especially where people are involved, I'm not an idiot!
IBM. Walt Disney was a fascist, William Hearsley who created a global media empire buying up a lot of the media outlets was a fascist, Ford motor company supported the movement but didn´t "condone the violence"
If you don´t believe this it is still possible to get copies, for instance in massive libraries, of out of date newspapers of the 1930s. Which included New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail of Britain and hundreds of others. WW2 put an end to these articles when the fascist problem was exposed to even more people.
William Hearsley was told that a free press allowed him to spread bs about socialism and communism but promoting fascism was a red line.
Excellent explanation! Thank you!
Lenin said it best.
Capitalism is "Democracy" for the Rich (Liberal Democracy).
Socialism is Democracy for the Poor (Workers Democracy).
Unfortunately Lenin (like many others of his time) was operating on a definition of democracy that had already been perverted and distorted to an Orwellian caricature in the early 19th century.
To me Trotsky had the most consistent definition of fascism: it's simply the repression and violence that follows after a failed revolution to overthrow capitalism. If you follow the definition as merging capitalist and state power, that's actually true for many periods throughout the history of capitalism and you don't have a very useful word. Fascism is the reaction of the capitalist class after the defeat of a revolutionary movement, their behavior can all be understood in the context of emboldenment, doing all the things they always wanted to do but weren't socially acceptable until a moment of crisis.
I think repression and violence are merely the tools a state or other powerful entity always use to enforce their interests, whatever that may be, whether capitalism, slavery, monarchy, theocracy, or other. If it seems as though Prof. Wolff's definition of fascism can be broadly applied, that's because there is a lot of fascism in the world ~ it is all too common. If we only wait for violence to call it fascism, by that time it's way too late. We need to see fascism for what it is ~ government working for the owner class ~ wherever it appears, and nip it in the bud.
Verygood talks prof. Wolff,thanks sir.appreciate a lot.
So Congress voting to force the railroad unions to go back to work and not strike for the 7 sick days they want...
Unions have a contract that tells them when they can strike and when not. They need to renegotiate.
@@bluewater454 they spent the last year doing that. This was the end of the constraints built into the contract which is why Congress had to pass legislation in less than one week to make the strike illegal. If Congress didn't act the union had every right under their labor contract to start a strike on December 9th. The same thing happened in the middle of the summer when Biden declared mission accomplished in avoiding the ability of labor to strike because they passed a 90 day cooling off period through Congress forcing the railroad workers back to work for the last 3 months without a contract agreement.
@@DanA-nl5uo Ah well, if what you are saying is true then this is a great illustration for why congress should not be interfering with contracts. And if I am not mistaken that is actually unconstitutional according to article 1 of the US Constitution - which they probably haven’t read. They actually have legal standing to fight that. This is why I love America. Not because it is perfect, but because here we at least have the tools to fight against the corruption that is inevitable when dealing with evil people.
@@bluewater454
The Railway Labor Act, enacted in 1926, allows the president to intervene in disputes that “threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service"
There is long stand law that saids what Congress has done is legal in the USA
@@DanA-nl5uo Laws like that can be defeated. Look at what just happened to roe. Hundred year old state gun laws have been declared unconstitutional because of the bruin case this year. We have an extremely constitutionally minded Supreme Court right now. An unconstitutional law like the Railway Labor Act could be challenged.
I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer, but I can read. We can fight bad laws. It is done all the time.
If the United States changed from first past the post voting to ranked choice voting, it'd be interesting to see how many would write in as their first choice Prof. Wolff or someone similar. We might end up with a far better country than one where we are effectively forced to vote for a selection from a list of bad choices.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ― Benito Mussolini
Which is the essence of capitalism.
"The Senate has approved a bill IMPOSING a new UNION contract of tens of thousands of rail workers and PROHIBITING them from going on strike."
...just 15 senators voted against the legislation last Thursday.
Quiet quitting. In my day we called it "minimum wage-minimum work." Sounds fair doesn't it? I thought so.
Basically, public-sector/public-sectors - private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors partnerships. Right?
Of which exist(s), at least established, "somewhat" entrenched, if not exist(s), established and mostly entrenched power(s), privilege(s) and prestige(s), is.
In any jurisdiction, considered or deemed or regarded as first-world. Localities/municipalities/communities...urban(e), at least sub-urban cities, you may want to settle, has "some" arrangement like this.
*as first-world, also upper second-world.
Also, public-sectors on-behalf of or at-the-behest of, private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors or oftentimes, public-sectors alone, not simply public-sector/public-sectors - private-sector business-sector or private-sectors business-sectors partnerships.
Fyi: just thought I'd add that.
"white"(, as in right-wing orientated/aligned/based/related, also white-collar, more so than "white" "people") fascism, to "social"(, as in centre-left proper and broadly orientated/aligned/based/related, also blue-collar) fascism.
Finally, "red"(, left-wing proper and broadly) fascism, a broader worker(/laborer) attraction and appeal.
All authoritarian/totalitarian, disciplinarian, autocratic or anocratic variations of the public-sectors, in essence.
By this definition were pretty damn close
We're pretty much there.
So do aspects of fascism exist in many current day politico-economic systems? Quote some countries?
China?
That question was posed in the beginning of the video. It was never answered by Wolff.
US. Congress just voted to forbid the rail workers from striking and to force them to go back to work. Their demand was for 15 days paid sick leave. They get no paid sick leave. The billionaire railroad owners made record profits this year.
@@bluewater454 I think there are a good many examples and to mention just one, Singapore in late 1900's. More importantly, is the manner in which the elements of fascism was implemented, and whether benevolent to that society at the time or not?
@@zazhou fascism is an ideology that became popular in the early 1900’s. I don’t think that most people today understand anything about it, except to use the term as a pejorative to describe any political ideology that they don’t like. Leftists in particular seem to love doing this. The conversation is pathetic without a real discussion about its philosophy.
@@bluewater454 I think that is true and there are degrees of fascism (government and corporate and social contract), meaning it is usually not an all or nothing philosophy.
Prof Wollf, if you have knowlege of them, can you do a show on "SLABS" (Student Loan Asset-backed securities) and their possible relationship to student loan forgiveness being blocked. I read somewhere that Nebraska Pension fund is financed through SLABS. Than
''Merger of Government and business -fascism''-----------------How come it is different from USA????
I'm interested in the fascist economic model of rewarding the highest grossing businesses with lucrative state partnerships.
Seems like an inversion from the late stage capitalist thing where much of our government becomes an arm of big biz.
End results are awful in similar ways though.
Is U.S. gov persuing a fascist model when they give the highest grossing businesses tax breaks and public money or is it just because theyre bought?
I think both are the case. The motives are not mutually exclusive.
@@stephaniecarrow4898 yeah and it's hard to tell anyones underlying ideology when profit is the only goal.
i'd rather ask why isn't usa considered fascist then?
Literally describes all forms of socialism using coercive force and says "MAKES CAPITALISM WORK"
What do you think Biden squashing the railroad workers from striking is? Denying people sick days to benefit the rail companies' management is benefiting capital. And there are a host of laws that favor capitalists over workers. Crappy minimum wage laws. All the laws making unions harder to firm. Laws that let non union workers freeload off union benefits. Wake up, we have long been a fascist nation.
@@charlenek11 Fascism is literally a branch of socialism and yes I agree, we are FAR too socialist.
Something benefiting capitalists doesn't make it capitalistic, it is still government interfering in the economy. Wake up, we have long been a fascist nation lead by democrats.
This is like The Great Tribulation Period in The Book Of Revelations.
Kanye clicked on this video for all the wrong reasons
But workers are poor under any system only those doctors ceo presidents of unions principals of schools, are rich they exists under any system
Please, professor Wolf, do Spanish people who lived, died, and suffered under Fascism with Francisco Franco, name us the next time. Actually, the fact that Franco's regime stopped being named Fascist and was named a dictatorship so that it could still exist for the profit and benefits of the imperialist neocolonial policies of the USA and the UK does not alter the truth. The word for defining Franco was changed for that purpose, but it continued as ever. Spain is under-studied and unrecognized for what it was and is an example of the connection between Colonialism and underdevelopment as tactics in foreign policy.
CCP's closeness is with the workers ?? Yeah right .
Remember Reagan coming down on the Air Traffic Control guys? Screw them. If I don't want to work somewhere I quit! You can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink as they say.
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''You have all offices and machines etc ----but without people you have scrap''------------------Not if you computerize and robotize everything-------------------Kraftwerk ''Ja tvoi sluga Ja tvoi robot'' Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
What is fascism? Well, for me, fascism is the sound that's made when I've had too many sugar-free lemon cough drops. The gastro-economy is simple: When supply keeps pace with demand, the system breaks down... from the inside out. Within two day, inevitable is a gastro-revolution. It's like a yellow bell going off. In Chinese, they call it a Wang Chung. Who's feeling the need to Dance Hall Days. Capeesh
There are two distinct differences between communism and fascism. The first is that communism is international in nature and fascism is national. Second, under communism the notion of all private property was discarded. Under fascism corporations operated, but under strict mandates and oversight of the government.
The state and corporations did not "merge" under fascism. The state pretty much dictated what and how much was produced, and often how much in profits the corporations could make.
All true except under communism you are allowed to own private property. You might not be able to hoard it though.
@YTCensors _"Com munism is an economic system. Fasc ism is a politcal system. The two can easily coexist. As can crap italism and fas cism. "_
Incorrect. Both com munism and fas cism are political ideologies which use soci alism as their economic model. Both are against capita lism.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Good to see someone on this channel gets it.
Communism is a marxist idea about how to end things like systemic exploitation,totalitarianism,centralized authority,and the class war that roughly 90% of people have been losing since neolithic times.
Fascism is about strengthening state and nation through centralized totalitarian control,obedience,patriotism,and expansion wars.
Either can be criticized without obfuscating definitions.
@YTCensors _" in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals."_
That is called so cial ism, i.e. collective ownership or control of the means of production. Co mmuni sm is political end goal of m arx ism, i.e. stateless and classless society.
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Facsists destroy all the working class movements. That is true. It goes beyond that where they want to have global domination where they can do what they want in other people´s countries. Yet do not accept people of other cultures or other languages in their own country.
They want the rest of the world to adopt their language, their ideology, their economic system etc and are prepared to use violent force. In other words imperialistic and nationalistic at the same time.
Germany didn't refer to itself as fascist under Hitler.
The Nutty Professor talks about the U.S. Government forcing modern day American employees to go to work against their will and says, "I'll give you an example" and then refers to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930's. LOL. Yale, Harvard and Stanford must be proud of their boy.
@@TC-eo5eb They didn't hire him, so probably not. Of course, the credibility of these institutions
is diminishing with time, and they clearly are not required in the pursuit of knowledge
by those genuinely curious. Unfortunately, the number of "genuinely curious" is also
in serious decline so the trend seems to be, to pick the narrative that is convenient to
ones circumstance, and reject everything that is inconvenient to it.
The fascist US does not refer to itself as fascist under any pResident.
@@jgalt308 Ironic how your feeble attempts to discredit credible institutions of higher learning is based on your incredibly wrong and easily discredited outlook of reality.
WARNING!!!!!! we have heard from the "willfully ignorant, functionally illiterates" so described,
who insisted on confirming the description, while having no relevant response or argument
to what has been written.
Truly, democracy at work.
Total nonsense. Nowhere in any capitalist economy has ANYBODY ever been forced to take a job against his will. What the hell is he talking about?
He is saying that fascists destroy the movements that are there to unite the workforce and campaign for better wages and working conditions
See there's this thing called homelessness
You mean like the rail workers who demanded paid sick days 🤔
@YTCensors The demons and repugnants are both pro corporate capitalists
@@benangel3268 _"He is saying that fascists destroy the movements that are there to unite the workforce and campaign for better wages and working conditions. "_
Then he is wrong. Fa scis m specifically operated through tra de union ism / national syn dicali sm, which united the workers, employers and the state.
SEEMS TO ME THAT THE CAPITALISTS IN GERMANY DID NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO FORCE PEOPLE TO WORK. PEOPLE WERE GOING HUNGRY WITH THE DEPRESSION AND WERE HAPPY TO WORK. FASCISM IS BETTER DEFINED AS A BRAZEN FUSION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISTS WITH A TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT FETISHIZES THE NATIONAL ENTITY EMBODIED BY AN OPPORTUNIST LEADER.
Although we have a general definition of fascism and its characteristics which can be seen in Hitler's Germany , Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Orban's Hungary and many other places, the Nazis did not call themselves "fascist", as Prof Wolff states at the beginning. For them, "Fascist" was Mussolini's party in Italy and Hitler saw himself and his party as being very different. Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" differentiates between the two in that Italy was a dictatorship but not totalitarian like Nazi Germany.
Chris hedges calls the USA inverted totalitarianism