schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureatewww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square264fedilinkarrow-up1665arrow-down120file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 months agoWeber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months ago Fascism was an outgrowth of capitalism that’s barely a century old. This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoOh, I see. My mistake.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWere they? That parses as “fascism, an outgrowth of capitalism, is a century old”.
Weber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
Oh, I see. My mistake.
Were they? That parses as “fascism, an outgrowth of capitalism, is a century old”.