re: Nazi Germany has returned globally

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I guess the last decade plus of the left using fascist tactics to take power wasn't a hint.

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You can argue that the fusion of private money and governance is fascist, but the fascists said that the private sector should serve the public good, and so what we have now really isn’t that, it’s just oligarchy, and oligarchy in the way the Greeks would have understood.

The Nazis used street violence, and so you can make that point, but so did the Bolsheviks and on a much greater scale. They opened the prisons and turned what we would call felons into their shock troops. They let these people rape, murder, and rob ordinary Russians. Which we’ve seen now too, albeit nowhere in the same horrific scale. But that’s why I don’t agree with the comparisons to the Nazis, what we’re watching is just replay of what the Spanish, the Germans, and the Russians experienced in their own ways. The difference here is that the state has been largely captured and there’s very little in the way institutional pushback. This isn’t 1930s Spain, we don’t have Catholic Church, royalists, and the army. It isn’t Russia, we don’t have the Orthodox Church and the aristocracy (which was a martial order like everywhere in Europe).

I should clarify, that when I make the comparison to communism, these people are the children of those movements, but it’s not about a belief in Marxism, and it don’t think it was then either, it was about power.