Watching the video would help. Basically, it's a barely-held-together coalition that won't last for very long. Meanwhile the far-right has massively risen in popularity over the last few years.
macron is doing everything in his power to diminish that election as much as possible; he's literally started talking to the far right coalition while ignoring the left-wing one; despite the left-wing one winning the most votes.
Fascism doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, like some virulent meme. Fascism is what the capitalist class falls back on when liberal democracy starts to fail them. Fascism is when the capitalist class goes mask off. That’s what Lenin meant by “fascism is capitalism in decay.”
The Eurozone lacks a central bank to do what most central banks are supposed to do: finance government deficits. To make matters worse, the Lisbon Agreement limits these deficits to 3% – too small to pull economies out of depression by offsetting private-sector debt deflation.
> be a capitalist state
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> capitalist ruling class cuts public funding, lowers wages to increase profits for themselves
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> resulting lower living conditions makes working class organize to overthrow capitalist rule
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> ruling capitalist class crushes the leftist movements because they harm capitalists
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> some capitalists blame already marginalized people for the problems to scapegoat them and shift the blame
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> fascists rally people around this idea and make up myths about the country being great before these marginalized people got involved
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> fascists are voted into power since socialist movements have been crushed, and not stopped by the ruling capitalist class because capitalists are not harmed
At the rate it's going, what's going to realistically stop fascism in europe again? There isn't a socialist force to counter it like the USSR did last time, and we have yet to see a socialist revolution succeed in a place where capitalism has firmly taken root.
If anything, the neoliberal rot in former USSR since its overthrow seems to have put Russia in its own path to fascism. At least its interests are still aligned with the Global South I guess...
only talking about what I know (France)
it absolutely is
Merci Vincent, merci Manu !
Wait, didn't you just elect a very left-wing parliament?
Watching the video would help. Basically, it's a barely-held-together coalition that won't last for very long. Meanwhile the far-right has massively risen in popularity over the last few years.
hard leftists + fake leftists(Hollande, etc.) + environmentalists make up only 30% of the parliament
😬 ok that truly seems like a hard starting place for any sort of coalition
macron is doing everything in his power to diminish that election as much as possible; he's literally started talking to the far right coalition while ignoring the left-wing one; despite the left-wing one winning the most votes.
Fascism doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, like some virulent meme. Fascism is what the capitalist class falls back on when liberal democracy starts to fail them. Fascism is when the capitalist class goes mask off. That’s what Lenin meant by “fascism is capitalism in decay.”
The neoliberalism that was baked into the Eurozone from its inception made this fascist turn almost inevitable. Michael Hudson: Financial Predators v. Labor, Industry and Democracy
::: spoiler Capitalism to fascism in a nutshell
> be a capitalist state
⠀
> capitalist ruling class cuts public funding, lowers wages to increase profits for themselves
⠀
> resulting lower living conditions makes working class organize to overthrow capitalist rule
⠀
> ruling capitalist class crushes the leftist movements because they harm capitalists
⠀
> some capitalists blame already marginalized people for the problems to scapegoat them and shift the blame
⠀
> fascists rally people around this idea and make up myths about the country being great before these marginalized people got involved
⠀
> fascists are voted into power since socialist movements have been crushed, and not stopped by the ruling capitalist class because capitalists are not harmed
> country is now a fascist state :::
Wow, didn't realize it got that bad over there. When are your next elections?
Bruh. You know it's bad when we start electing our own Repiblicans. Wb the president? Are they at least more sympathetic?
Interesting, I just read the Wikipedia article, he looks a bit like a 20th century Orbán
Jokes aside, great video by Second Thought as always. The EU's future is looking grim...
Get organized while you can, comrades.
At the rate it's going, what's going to realistically stop fascism in europe again? There isn't a socialist force to counter it like the USSR did last time, and we have yet to see a socialist revolution succeed in a place where capitalism has firmly taken root.
If anything, the neoliberal rot in former USSR since its overthrow seems to have put Russia in its own path to fascism. At least its interests are still aligned with the Global South I guess...
Exaggeration.