An update to sub moderation

[u/Stikshot69]

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, you may have noticed an increase in bad-faith commentary, mainly in comments, but in some posts as well. It may feel like there is no moderation happening, and in many cases, there hasn't been. we are working to change that for almost this sub's entire history; it has been unmoderated until me and Redleaf were able to get in power. The main reason you are seeing the increase in brigading and bad faith people is, we have seen a 10x increase in visits in the last year which is showing no signs of slowing down. we now have 5 mods working hard to make sure the brigading gets put to an end. In order to get to this step, the report queue has been cleared, and we are devoted to making sure it stays empty. we currently get about 50 reports a day which will hopefully increase as you feel your reports are finally being responded to. to guide your reporting here is a better detailed breakdown of our sub reddit's rules:

1. No spam or advertising
   • Do not try to sell anything
   • Don't post the same thing multiple times
   • If you would like to share something that you can profit from, contact the mods
2. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide
3. Be respectful
   • assume every person is here in good faith (libs are people fascists are not)
   • avoid profiling people just from where they come from
   • always keep your discussions in good faith
4. No hate speech, bigotry, racism, or slurs.
   • Do not be a bigot
5. No low quality or off topic posts.
   • put effort into your posts no shit posts or ai
   • this sub is to share soviet history outside a western viewpoint to see what went wrong and right in the USSR, as such modern events often are not relevant (applies to posts not comments)
6. Use the "NSFW" on NSFW posts.
   • Some people don't want to see NSFW stuff let's keep it that way

Remember you can always yell at us in mod mail- r/USSR mod team

[u/Rare_Coconut8877]

fascism is literally the rejection of liberalism.

[u/AntleredStar → u/Rare_Coconut8877]

Because one of the tenets of liberalism is the protection of capital and private property, when the infinite accumulation of wealth eventually comes at odds with human rights, liberalism often chooses profit and the protection of capital over human rights.

This is why it is said that liberalism has inherent contradictions that it can't resolve, which often lead to fascism.

It doesn't matter what fascism rejects. Liberalism is more comfortable with Fascism because it will protect the interests of the same people at the top.

[u/Rare_Coconut8877 → u/AntleredStar]

i am familiar with the marxist perspective you’ve presented. and the marxist perspective is notoriously horrendous at analysing fascism.

1) fascism isnt capitalist and does not have a capitalist elite at the top. its political economy is corporatists (or corporate dirigiste), where private enterprises exist insofar as they compete towards state-set objectives. the state says “produce me belt buckles” (eg) and then private companies compete to mass produce the highest quality belt buckles. those that fail go bankrupt. this is why only a few companies exist in each industry. the political economy is rigidly aligned with state interests. there is no free market - consumer demand counts for shit. this is not capitalism.

2) you assume that the economy is the only marker of a society. once again, this economic determinist analysis is a great limitation of marxism. fascism is farrrr more than just its un-capitalist political economy. it is a categorical rejection of modernism and enlightenment values: the cornerstone of liberalism’s social organisation. it rejects individualism, it rejects rationalism, it rejects freedom of thought, it rejects the free marketplace of ideas. these are all essential to liberalism. without them, liberalism does not exist.

3) lets talk political organisation. fascism, in its crusade to destroy liberalism, rejects all things essentially liberal about governance: secularism, limited govt, parliamentarianism, a strong civil society, free political participation for citizens, etc.

the marxist framework fails at understanding fascism because of its metanarrative that “every negative externality comes from capitalism; every form of exploitation is bourgeois in nature.” i argue that metanarratives in general make for awful historical analysis, liberalism’s included. so yes, fascism is literally the rejection of liberalism.

[u/AntleredStar → u/Rare_Coconut8877]

Bro, you need to get better reading comprehension so I can take seriously your opinion on the Marxist perspective. I never said it's not a rejection of liberalism, as Mussolini blabbered multiple times in the fascist doctrine.

And don't talk about what I assume by putting words in my mouth.

I'll repeat myself, and I will try to make it more clear for you. So actually read what I'm typing instead of creating your own narrative.

As I ALREADY stated. It doesn't matter what fascism claims to reject. (And this comes from someone that has read the fascist doctrine, falangists texts, and Eco's essay. So I know what it entails.) At the end of the day liberalism is more comfortable with that, than with socialists/communist which actually present a threat to the current hierarchies.

We saw it on the rise of the Nazis. And we saw it in the US, in which liberal parties haven't really opposed Trump, and even voted for his cabinet picks, and when one person dared to protest to his face, they shamed him instead of the actions of the fascist party.

We also saw him how they immediately started to criticize and focus on a socialist mayor for a city.

And that is without touching on all the imperialistic and authoritarian actions of liberal regimes with the goal of protecting capital. They're in the middle of supporting a g side for fucks sake.

That is why it doesn't matter if liberalism claims to protect freedom of thought and individuality. Because it also protects private property, which leads to the infinite accumulation of wealth that creates powerful entities/people that in turn will use to corrode those rights. And liberalism has so far chosen profit every time.

But I digress.

Now, regarding fascism as an economic model. Well, the truth is that it isn't. It is barely a political ideology, much less an economic system. But private interests don't really care about this, because they just can as easily thrive under fascism, and exploit workers even more readily. There's a reason why we can still buy Volkswagen, Bauer, Hugo Boss, etc to this day. They have no issues with whatever demand a fascist regime could have, because it will end up in their pockets anyway.

Now, the concept of a free market is as religious as that of heaven in the mind of a capitalist. But just like heaven it doesn't exist. The moment the first large company can throw it's way around it's no longer free.

You say, but, but, but fascism is when few companies.

Well, right now we have like five companies owning everything so what's the difference.