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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD – DW – 08/11/2023
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The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.
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    .ml stands for Marxist-Leninist so for some reason there is generally a lot of praise for China which is closer to fascism than either of those idealogies.

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I am once again asking liberals to learn that fascism doesn’t mean “a thing I don’t like”

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        It’s authoritarian with large amounts of state capitalism combined with high amounts of nationalism. That sure as shit is not communist.

        • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Fascist states famously sold off large amounts of state assets to capitalists. Nazi Germany even inspired a new word for this, called “privatization” because they did it so much

          It’s okay to not have opinions on things you don’t know. Learn so that you can create informed opinions

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            Quite the opposite for Nazi Germany for the most part. The corporations became a central part of the state. The alternative name that Mussolini coined for fascism was corporatism for that very reason.

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              “In return for business assistance, the Nazis hastened to give evidence of their good will by restoring to private capitalism a number of monopolies held or controlled by the state."

              In other words, the Nazis specifically took certain businesses that were formerly nationalized and then privatized them.

              For further reading:

              • Retrospectives The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party - Article from Journal of Economic Perspectives
              • Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany - Research paper from the University of Barcelona
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                Corporatism where the employers play a central role in the running of the state was a foundation of fascism.

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                  If you wish to argue against the author’s findings, you can contact gbel@ub.edu.

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                    The author does not delve into corporatism.

            • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netB
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              Sweety, Albert Speer literally said that NAZI Germany was “an daughter company of IG Farben”.

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      That, I had no idea about. The .ml thing. Makes sense and good to know.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        That is false, .ml is the country code for Mali where the developers are from lmfao

        just lies on lies

        edit: hol’ up I may have been told a fib and repeated it, unverified

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          .ml is the code for us military operations. Just send them your classified files, it’s cool.

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