Fascist Ideologies

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mergency. The political implications of different regimes coming to power exemplify the ability of capitalism to produce systems of oppression, whether legal or coercive. Fascist ideals came about through the works of capitalism, in order to stabilize revolutions and to maintain populations. Through the shadowing works of liberalism and capitalism, radical ideologies were able to be reproduced because of the failure of the “progressive” state. Fascisms can thrive off capitalism by manipulating economic and political institutions to maintain the superstructure of the elites. Eley writes“Fascisms prospered in states that were already dynamically capitalist, but where the state proved incapable of dispatching its organizing functions for the …show more content…
Both ideologies frame the idea of governance from different historical and structural apparatuses, but both utilize organizing, activism and popular mobilization to advocate for their agenda. Colonization established genocide and displacement as building blocks for the political and economic platforms of this country, but also generated ideologies which normalized the power of the state and those who benefit from it. These ideologies allowed America to normalize powers of the state, while providing inadequate services to counter the violence they created. Co-optation of social change and the reality of marginalized people being murdered by poverty through the bureaucracy of the state justifies how liberalism generates ideologies of fascism. In a fascist regime, threats of violence are those who challenge the powers of the state, which has evolved from the silent repression of liberal ideals. Since the rise of the western countries, revolutionary leaders have been executed, criminalized or re-framed to maintain the powers of the status quo which pushed for a covertly fascists and overtly liberal

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