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I mean they would be stupid not to support radical parties in their oppositional democracies. It just speed runs democracies natural tendencies to decay into fascism.
So you've now moved the goal post from supporting far right parties to "radical" parties. Interesting.
The far right isnt a radical party?
No because western Europe and Amerikkka are fascist as fuck. Radical would be outside the norm. But please accuse me of pedantry again.
Are you claiming that all "democratic" nations are inherently fascist nations at any point of their economic/political development?
Did I say all? No I was pretty specific.
And what differentiates a fascist western "democracy" from a non fascist democracy.
Dictatorship of a different class? This is fundamental Marxist theory, states are a dictatorship of one of several classes. You can't have democracy for the proletariat (vast majority of people) in a state that is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (small, powerful minority). Note: "dictatorship" of a class means that a state is organized to advance the interests of that class, not "dictatorship" as in "opposite to democracy" or "governed by one person".
Therefore, even in principle liberal "democracies" cannot be democratic. It's not a decay of democracy, it's an impossibility for it to have ever existed in those cases.
I hear far more about how ”we need to spend all our money on weapons and fuck the poor, because of Russia!” all over European media, and find it much more worrying than any supposed Russian influence. Europeans are capable of being reactionary without scary Russia telling them to it: some of the most Russophobic countries in Europe like Poland, the Baltics and Finland have popular far-right parties.
I'm not arguing they don't? I'm just saying that it behooves them to support far right parties in these countries just as it benefits the US to support radical parties in places like Cuba or Venezuela.
So you too also enjoy fatalistic idealist framings of issues to skirt away from criticism. I thought I was the only one!