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[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Very typical white liberal interpretation of history here, it's only fascism when it gets too mean for your taste.

No, there have been plenty of horrific regimes throughout history that were not fascist. Fascism is a vague concept, but not as vague as to just mean "bad".

Welfare liberalism isn't a term I use as an opinion, it is a term that describes the specific policymaking you referred to when you brought up the New Deal. Democratic socialists support similar policies at times, but have a different intent with their own specificities in how those policies are implemented and what they entail

Sure, and my phrasing might have been a bit unclear - I was talking about the whole post-war consensus, which involved more than welfare liberals.

For all the flaws of the policies of the post-war decades, I don't think there's any denying that the power of big capital was weakened. That's pretty important, whatever kind of socialist you are.

you seem to think that you know enough to speak on these topics with some kind of authority

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm a middle aged man who's spent too much time on the internet, but in stead of hammering on about how white and ignorant I am, I wish you'd be more specific about what exactly I'm wrong about and what's right.

it's clear your knowledge is mostly passive

how?