schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureatewww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up1822arrow-down129file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 month 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-up4·1 month 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-down1·1 month agoOh, I see. My mistake.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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”.