I do often wonder why fascist governments always collapse within decades, but we have all of these communist governments pushing towards a centennial
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I do often wonder why fascist governments always collapse within decades, but we have all of these communist governments pushing towards a centennial.
I think I get it mechanically. It's as simple as a Machiavellian economy of violence... just...
It sucks that there seems to be a sustainable model of totalitarianism.
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I do often wonder why fascist governments always collapse within decades, but we have all of these communist governments pushing towards a centennial.
I think I get it mechanically. It's as simple as a Machiavellian economy of violence... just...
It sucks that there seems to be a sustainable model of totalitarianism.
@humanadverb Fascism is too tied to a single leader IMO, while authoritarian communist governments espouse some variation of Marxist-Leninist ideology that (in theory) invests power in a vanguard party instead of an individual.
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@humanadverb Fascism is too tied to a single leader IMO, while authoritarian communist governments espouse some variation of Marxist-Leninist ideology that (in theory) invests power in a vanguard party instead of an individual.
@Tim_Eagon Maybe a bit, but the personality cult thing is a feature of communist governments too and it seems like there's always a question of whether it will outlast Mao or Stalin; I'm old enough to remember it with Casto and Kim Jong-il.
I think it's fascism's preoccupation with operatic, open war, and they keep picking fights until they lose. Whereas constantly guarding against wrongthink creates a more sustainable model of violence.
"War" is exhausting. "Struggle" is survival.
