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I think given that Hitler and the Nazis looked to the Jim Crow South for inspiration on how to conduct racial discrimination and genocide correctly, it’s safe to say not only was the US fascist before it became trendy… ‘fascism’ was and is just a manifestation what the US/European colonialism-capitalism-imperialism has always been.
And United States look to Hitler how to segregate and track unvaccinated Americans during Covid. They also use the same propaganda on NBC that Joseph Gobboels used against the unvaxxed
Once you understand, the similarities between Covid and Nazi germany. The rabbit hole is endless. For example, the vaccine mandates were very similar to how Hitler came to power in 1933 and figured out who’s going to be loyal to him.
And this is how I know I’m correct because UA-cam is a little bitch and they keep censoring my comments. And anybody who is against freedom speech I have zero respect for so stop censoring my comments UA-cam.
So I said this before, and I got taken down twice, but the similarities between the pandemic of 2020 and Nazi Germany are very similar. 1933 and the VAX mandates and how Hitler figured out who’s gonna be loyal to him or extremely similar
Why would it make certain people uncomfortable? Right wing alternative media has been saying this for years. People like Alex Jones, David Icke The problem is is that fascism now has been bastardized in liberal colleges to just include right wing government to say Donald Trump is fascist is correct but during his first president presidency, he really wasn’t that fascist until Operatin WS which was fascist as fuck. During his next presidency, you’re gonna see a wall being built. Not out of construction material but a digital wall. Because Trump is a big tech puppet And you’re going to see digital IDs being handed out to everybody just like the vaccine passport Bootlickers thought it was to use a QR code while going into a restaurant when unvaccinated people couldn’t. Just wait till they implement digital currency where you have to be a bootlicker to use the system
@@PrinceShakurUA-cam you have a very good video but I would complain to UA-cam because I’ve put several comments towards your video and they’re being censored
And I think you need to rectify that fascism is not just right wing. It can be left wing as well. It’s not steadfast to any side of the polity call spectrum
And I think you need to rectify that fascism is not just right wing. It can be left wing as well. It’s not steadfast to any side of the policall spectrum
“Prudence indeed…hath shewn that men are more willing to suffer where evils are sufferable, than to right themselves the wrongs that have been committed by abolishing the forms to which they have become accustomed.” The declaration if independence usa
I’m German, when I tell people around me that the denazification of Germany was not effective, they argue against it although many haven’t thought about it at all. And then Germany is policing pro Palestinian discourse in the name of fighting antisemitism, literal insanity. All this to agree with your point that fascism is repeatedly ‘rebranding’ itself
I'm with you. In my opinion, Germany was never properly denazified and they never properly apologized for what they did, because the Red Scare was seen as a bigger threat by the West (mainly the US). But now it is very clear that fascism never really left. And you can see it slowly rising throughout western Europe. The future is bleak...
Once Jewish people received their white citizenship papers, Germany became anti-antisemitic ostensibly because they were the architects of the genocide. You couldn't care less about the genocide of Namibians. They were black.
It's fucked up because the German state, meaning the elected officials who make policy, are so paranoid about being perceived as antisemitic that they're literally being Nazis about protesting against Israel. Seeing German Jews arrested by German cops for protesting against genocide was fucking insane. How do they not see it?! 😮
I started crying when I saw your tears towards the end of your video. What a sick society we live in, where we bear witness to crimes against humanity on a daily basis and are expected to go along with our day like everything is fine. I hate it here. Thank you for the work you do. Your voice is very much needed as an oasis of sanity and humanity in our cruel reality. ❤
We are expected to go cote for 2 evils in return, getting rewarded with total disdain. In fact, they don't think they should work for your vote, no primary, no real debate. We need to be brave enough to pick someone else
I was homeless for ten years and the states charged me well over 6000$ for crimes of poverty ie not having car insurance, camping but its called trespassing, and liscensce suspension when i never even knew i had court.
You make a good point. I always told ppl the lower class has it worse than the middle class. And it's true when you are poor you could end up paying more to live
Not could it's pretty much a guarantee. If your sick and miss work you need a doctors note but if if your insurance isn't great that can easily end up costing as much as you would make in that shift. Public transport is garbage in most places in the us so in some areas especially rural you are almost required to have a vehicle in order to get to any jobs that make any kind of decent money and often you won't be able to afford repairs as they are needed. Since that is the case often you end up putting off repairs until things like tax season where you might have some disposable money but the damage done while operating the vehicle under that sate usually causes more damage making the repair cost even higher, If your in a financial bind and need a loan chances are a bank won't loan you the money so you're stuck with title loans and payday loans who's interest rates are obscene. You can't afford insurance or car registration that's a fine. Heck most of the fines that the states and cities use for funding are dependant on people not being able to afford something in the first place. Vagrancy is another fine, not able to pay that fine you go to jail that you have to pay for your stay there. can't afford that back to jail you go. pretty much any way they can tax poverty it is probably being done in the us.
@@battlecat3792 Another example is the boots economic theory, it's when the wealthier people have the privilege to access high quality items which don't break, such as boots whereas poorer people have to choose between those items and getting food, leading to increased expenses as they also need to pay for the things that adapt it that they wouldn't have if they had the luxury to buy the more expensive item.
It’s actually sick how much they tax poor people. If I tell you, I can’t pay some thing and you actively are reaching out to me telling me I have to pay something. I’m confused.
As a non American, who is South of your border Kamala talking about having the most lethal military was super scary, because it's happening at the same time Venezuela was just threatening invasion to another country, their elections were crazy and unresolved, half of my country is on fire to the point that if it rains in my state we will have black rain because of the ash, and we have 60% of the Amazon, to non Americans seems like a lose - lose situation because regardless of who wins the policy is the same.
Please find out what Elon Musk has been trying to do in the Amazon since Bolsanaro was in power. He also tried to use his satellites to influence the election in Venezuela! Musk has given millions to Trump's election campaign and he is pro Israel!
If this reaches anyone, please donate food and clothes and bus passes to the most homeless dense areas in your city. The last of the COVID era protections are coming to an end Sept 30 and they will lose hundreds of shelter beds, no more homeless hotel vouchers, slower permanent supportive housing vouchers, less clothing, bus passes, work programs, and clinical medical services for those who have none. I work in social services for the homeless and it’s getting worse. Phoenix is having hundreds of heat deaths in spite of heat respite shelters (no beds but seats in ac.) please volunteer, donate season appropriate clothing, give food and water, give bus passes. Please help these people in your city. The state is squeezing the faucet of resources down. 🙏
@@PrinceShakurUA-cam I do think it's more of a complex argument than just saying it's irresponsible to meme about things as serious as politics. Like yes, we all need to check ourselves and not get carried away. And we should always remember a politician is a politician, you aren't supposed to like them. But gen z truly does communicate ideas and start movements through internet culture and things like memes. For instance as ridiculous as it was, I don't think the 'coconut memes' we saw about Harris were all that problematic. I think the majority of the people making those edits were well aware of Harris' issues as a politician, but were using the medium to communicate how badly they wanted a different democratic candidate. Imo there's a generational turnover happening right now. And gen z legitimately communicate serious ideas using memes. It's also interesting to consider how social media affects the age at which gen z has been exposed to politics. My reading of the situation is you're seeing things like the 'memeification' of politics because younger, perhaps less refined?, voices are being heard more.
This channel has been a breath of fresh air and intellectual clarity amid the banality, un-truth, and horror we are living. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart
I would love to hear your thoughts on the book “The Secure and the Dispossessed - how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world”. I’ve found it really interesting esp in considering how so many young organizers cite hurricane Katrina, dapl, cop city as formative moments
That’s exactly what the climate change agenda is all about. fascism. It’s big corporations controlling the state to gain more and more control. More control of our food, more control of our transportation, more police state, track, and trace, carbon taxes. And here’s the thing the Science is certainly not settled. I know one thing I ain’t giving up fucking steak or my car.
Thanks for talking about the unhoused. People don't think about how local governments are in some ways more fascist. The land court, building committee, town manager etc., everything is all but open about the fact that they DO NOT WANT LOWER CLASS PEOPLE IN TOWN. In fact, I'd say this is the main purpose of these local institutions. Rich places use lawfare to exclude middle class people, middle class places exclude working class people, etc. Tiny houses are a great solution to the housing shortage, but they are positively and specifically OUTLAWED in the vast majority of towns and cities! Actually, I'm not sure it's fascist, because it's all about greed, in the former of home values (not that most people plan to sell, but they've been encouraged to put all their wealth into their home, and think only about market prices)
Right?! It’s all roadblocked. Anything productive, beneficial. I would say it’s super fascist. And yes for greed! They for sure make MoRE money with homeless remaining homeless, and recidivism when they may happen to get off the streets.
I worked for the parks department of my very blue collar town taking phone calls. I got a call once from a guy reporting a homeless man’s tent saying “i thought id let yall know so you can remove him”. I didn’t report the call. I’m sure as hell not going to be the reason a man with nothing left gets metaphorically kicked in the ass again.
Three dimensions of fascism historically that get overlooked: how an ostensibly anti liberal ideology mobilized the symbols of the authoritarian liberal state, from napoleon onwards. 2) the historical liberal to fascist pipeline (ie, influential liberal or even socialist bourgeois and statesmen that made a literal fascist turn, from mussolini to trump and musk), 3) that liberalism from its inception in the late 18th and 19th centuries was almost always an elitist, authoritarian school of political thought and praxis, and until the arrival of Bismarck, almost unilaterally opposed to the democratization of society, whether through opposition to granting suffrage to the poor and colonized, or to the labor movements which sought to democratize the economy
You forgot the main course of fascism. And that is the merger of corporations and the state to make laws and rules together with an authoritarian twist. Not listening to the people. so think Covid rules with the Democrats merging with big Pharma
In fact, you don’t even mention anything but corporations merging with the state. You can’t start off fascism without that. And your point of view about fascism is that its right wing fascism has elements of every political ideology across the spectrum. I think you need to broaden your horizons and taking more information to fully understand what fascism is. You have some points but it’s not complete and doesn’t cover all the bases of what fascism is and really could be
@@cpersiani4466no it doesn’t. Fascism doesn’t have political views from all over the spectrum. Fascism is strictly right wing. The most well known example of a fascist state is Nazi Germany which is a capitalist country. Also you’re insane if you think that covid rules are authoritarian.
@@Arabmarxistt and of course, the Covid rules were authoritarian you have no credibility. Put it this way if I was ever in front of you and you told me to wear a mask I would laugh right in your face and you would do nothing about it.
As a Muslim American who is FLABBERGASTED by how quick people switched over to support kamala when her candidacy was announced, I am truly grateful for this video. We deserve better and it’s sad that it needs explanation
I’m black and Muslim and I grew up with a lot of Palestinians and so it’s so weird to me when people don’t understand the solidarity that I have with Palestinians is something that I have been doing my whole life and no one can change that.
I'm voting for Kamala but that doesn't mean I don't want 200% pressure when it comes to Palestine, whether that's in the form of demonstrations, protests, political pressure, etc. The Kamala presidency will provide a way for people to make demands and the same can not be said about trump. We are not voting for a saviour, we are voting for the ground on which we will continue to fight the next four years b
First they came for the Palestinians, then they came for the Syrians, after that they came for the Lebanese, then they came for you. Wake up America, first Amendment matters.
Man, I also cried when you talked about how we all deserve so much better. It's so sad watching all these folks not only accept but champion the toilet water we're being asked to drink when we know a better world is so eminently possible.
It’s the tragedy of the current society we live in. We’re still made to eat shit just so that we don’t have to eat the even worse even more putrid shit.
I literally get people daily on facebook (I'm old) yelling at me for "complaining with no solution" and reminding them that the US doesn't deserve to even continue and you can't just fucking discuss the end of an empire online like that.
That’s just how movements go tho. They gain momentum. I think we are at a very critical point. We need to be as organized as we can be in these tumultuous times. 💚
Manifest destiny, and its evolution and development as a colonial ideology in Canada and Australia directly influenced the fascist colonisation of Ethiopia and Libya where the Nazis did training camps on how to enact the Holocaust. This ideology didn't pause in the US and just stay at it.
Omg. When Lucretia said “we’re in an abusive relationship with the American government” my eyes almost left my head. I’ve been saying that exact thing for a while now and I was doing research to try to see if it’s already been dug into by organizers or radical mental health professionals and I can’t find anything.
Thank you SO. MUCH. I've known this for a while, but it can be hard to articulate and I'm too sensitive to suicidal ideation to do my own research 😂 Looking forward to listening closely and taking notes 👍🏾💕
I think the US has always been fascist. We didn't even fight the war against Nazi's to save the Jews, we only did it because we where attacked. Before that, we where just selling guns to the highest bidder so we could get richer. We benifited from the fighting, and didn't step in until it affected us. We have our own history of slavery, genocide, concentration camps, and war crimes. We just aren't tought these things in school. We need to make our country better, because it wasn't great in the first place. We have already won to be able to vote, we have won laws to protect against discrimination. Celebrate our successes, and continue forward. Because we have a lot more to do.
I know that it’s not popular to say, but there’s a correlation between this country’s extreme discomfort with sex and relationships and relative comfort with violence that plays out in the policies that outcomes that we see both at home and abroad. I see the direct derivation from slave masters and the manor in which they exercised power and control over people in many of these laws and customs. You largely see the inverse in Western European countries where people are pretty much the opposite, and they have much lower levels of violence.
Definitely, it all goes back to settler colonialism. The early euro settlers had very stiflling ideas around gender and sex, and it was one of the reasons for animosity with natives whom often but not always had very different fluid and open experiences with sexuality and gender norms. Ofc the euro settlers also brought chattel slavery, rampant militaristism which brought near total genocide and annihilation of native peoples and their worlds, industrial economy etc
So glad I found your channel! This really reminds me of something I wrote in philosophy of war class this past summer about the Noam Chomsky quote where he basically states that every president post WWII could credibly be tried for war crimes by the ICC. Chomsky isn’t stating that every president post WWII is coincidentally a “bad person” fundamentally, but that the actions of every US president post World War II must be in line with holding the US’s hegemonic power over the rest of the world. It’s not that each one of them is supremely evil but that the power and expectations of the US president when it comes to foreign relations must be to prop up the country in order to maintain its position on the global stage. I think that this idea is key to understanding our two party system and understanding that neither party is “progressive” they both cater to imperialist ambition and, post WWII, MUST continue this pattern as it is the status quo. You explained this really well. Awesome video
UNTIL we ELECT people, who: LIVE AROUND us, WORK Real Jobs, Use Public Transport or are Farmers & Skilled Trades people or Teachers, etc…., or BEEN HOMELESS, etc….. , we GET SAME OLD B.S. !
You don't know how many people I have gotten into arguments with because I called the United States a fascist nation, or the Democratic party's actions as fascistic. I use terms like 'systemic fascism', and I point out how the US government on a global scale is overtly fascist, especially outside the imperial core nations. Inside the US imperial core, the fascism is covert, ingrained in our systems. Fascism is not stagnant, it has evolved. These frames of critical thought isn't new for Black radicals like you and I. We are just rediscovering, and organizing these thoughts..which have already been pointed out by our own. Keep up the good work, it's crucial that we educate many people and shift their perspectives on what fascism is and what it looks like in various forms.
While I think it’s super valid to feel unsafe talking about revolution I do think we need to find a way to guide people to local connections and revolutionary leaders. It’s my opinion that just saying it’s too dangerous to talk about contributes to fear that scares people from actually getting involved seriously in person. It is a form of self censorship I find extremely frustrating, and I think that’s also valid! These are just my thoughts and feelings about the subject, not an attack on anyone!
My girlfriend has struggled as a disabled woman to get involved in local revolutionary politics because CERTAIN organizations require dues (i understand that resources are necessary, but if it bars low or no income ppl from organizing, i find it ridiculous). We are sort of at a loss for where to go from here. I know revolutionary leftist organizing must be active somehow in our area, but it is hard to find while living a busy life.
I am not American. But I live here. In the US, the term "democrat" has a different meaning. It's a clever trick, and amazing how the vast majority of people don't see it or understand it. And if you try to explain that to them, they might hurt you.
Sorry but I have to vote for Jill Stein. After AOC insulted them, and watching that Breakfast Club interview, I officially switched affiliation from Democrat to Green ✅
I’m with Stein and Ware because of their stance on Palestine. They’re real people, not representing the elite. Also, out of Kamala’s mouth, “Israel has the right to defend itself.” I can’t vote for more of that at all. 💔💔💔
We all need to learn to vote any pafty but the two offered. Idt most americans really fit in either party anymore. Both are starting to lean too far .... i think we are def experiencing a party change. It happened in the past and will happen again.
@@ellanina801 Please go listen to Jill Stein talk about Russia and it's invasion of Ukraine. She has no principles, she is just a Russian plot to destroy the unity of the left.
Dude why, she had dinner with Putin and wouldn't denounce him in an interview with Medhi I believe. She is literally just a Russian shill dude, she has no idea how many people are in the house of representatives either which is laughable considering she's running for president. You are being conned and yes I hate Kamala but the alternative to Kamala is full on fascism and christo fascism at that with trump
UA-cam's algorithm led me here. This discussion has confirmed what I had strongly suspected for a very long time, decades, in fact. I've been saying that the US is fascist for pretty much the same reasons you've discussed. The way the US treated Native Americans in the late 19th century greatly inspired Hitler in how he built his concentration camps. There hasn't been a true left in this country for the past 100 years. We've been moving further and further over to the extreme right for decades where Ronald Reagan looks like a radical leftist in comparison to today's standards. This is how far right the Democrats have moved. Biden has elevated the US Empire Mega-War Machine to entirely new levels in the past 3 years.
I don't think states are inherently fascist, but the US state is definitely fascist. Every liberal state is susceptible to going fascist because fascism is how rich people maintain control during economic unrest. If America had a communist revolution, the new state wouldn't be fascist unless it collapsed. You have really phenomenal energy, and I wish I had found your channel sooner.
How are we measuring fascism then? Is authoritarianism acceptable so long as it isn´t fascist? how would a communist revolution work when the majority of americans are middle class, and would have been executed for that under communist systems like the ussr?
@@MargaretBurmingham-qm5dx 4chan troll that just made their account 4 months ago spamming replies defending nazism and the US's imperial regime? Not surprising!
It has always been fascist like nothin' new, same sh*t since the beginning (-_-). Thanks a lot for this video, someone had to say it ! We (the rest of the world) specifically the Global South are fed up and tired for real real ! Anyway... ^_^
Yes . I was totally disappointed that the Gaza activists were given zero stage time!Yes they paraded out everyone else! The opportunity to educate by simply giving voice to the diversity of views . Amplify one and all!
Thank you for your analysis, words, and embodiment of those words. I find so much realistic hope oddly enough in your videos just simply because you are coming from a place of creation and showing what coming from a place of creation and love looks like.
im still on the ads but all the education ive had on the USA, it doesnt take much more than the title to make me agree with your statement. im still incredibly glad that you are making such a statement a lot of people are not willing to accept. “this election is between democracy and fascism”. uh dude, its been fascist since 1776 and before
Today I drove past a 400x300ft US flag, after listening to my mom talk about her Trump supporter friend, and while thinking of how Kamala is just another face of fascism, and my stomach sank... I really want things to change, or for leftists to all move into the same general area and do our work building a society together
Excellent video essay, Sweet Black Prince. Liked & subscribed. It's always a breath of fresh air when I hear others describing the same thing i see. Also, thank you for the intro to Lucretia McEvil. Her analogy is brilliant. One dimension to our current world that rarely gets mentioned by anyone, even my fellow leftists, is the role scientists and engineers play in the fascism. The DoD employs nearly 300,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, and mathematicians. Over a quarter of all physical scientists in the government work for the DoD. These are the people creating the weapons and technologies supporting the overall mission of the DoD that is ultimately steering the world into death. And above these scientists, which could be perfectly well-meaning people, there is always going to be a high-ranked bureaucrat who may not even be a scientist. That is a dimension of the story I'm interested in, because I believe it has unforeseen, often unintended downwind effects on our entire society.
@@mightymeatymech yeah he seems great! I'm happy to see people that are real abolitionists giving advice on action we can take. I'm surprised the algorithm took so long considering I've been interested in these subject for long 😭
Im so grateful to not be alone on these thoughts and worries in ohio, i feel like a lot of ohioans either dont understand why im so concerned, understand somewhat but approach fixing it in a way that wont actually work, or they are republicans lol
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts regarding our pacifying entertainment media being hyper violent and how that appears to desencitize people to the violence inflicted by the state here. Ive lived in a couple other countries and the violence i see regularly in the US on tv/movies/news is utterly nauseating to me.
i'm finding this while i'm currently Reading J. Sakai's book 'Settlers: the Mythology of the White "Proletariat"' and it's waking me up to the U$ Class dynamics(as a Euro-Amerikan) and realizing that yes this Nation was founded on Slavery and Settler colonialism to a Greater extent than i had ever realized. This will be interesting to what you have to say.
As an Italian, I agree. Btw, both fascist Italy and the USA looked at the Roman Empire as a model. The Roman Empire in many ways started this mess. That is why people like Musk, Republicans and neofascists are OBSESSED with The Roman Empire. Musk is even friends with Meloni and building a mansion in Italy. It's a nightmare.
Thank you so much for actually offering up a definition of fascism! So many have been throwing it around with no type of definition (which I know varies among historians) but the way both parties are denigrating immigrants, appealing to the middle class which historically leans fascist, and the anti democratic nature of corporations dictating our foreign and domestic policy
I think the definition provided is a little incomplete tho, the thing that separates fascism from authoritarianism is that it can only exist by systematically eliminating everyone who isn't them. That is what makes...say trump fascist. Another part is having this almost mythical strong man that will lead the country back to "greatness" from "degeneration".
We need to organize better instead of waiting for the next murder or tragedy to happen to finally want to stand up and stand together. We need to make our representation more visible and worth a damn by any party that panders to us instead of saying, "everything is fascist (when it's not) or everything is built against us (that's mostly true but if you know then shouldnt work to destroy that). We deserve so much more yet no one wants to do the work and get what they think they deserve or try and pick apart someone that looks like us to fit some narrative you built out of an anthill of an idea. Even if Obama and Harris didn't do anything but inspire people and let people that look like them know that they can do anything then they done something more life changing than any change in policy or reform could ever do.
Hey, I know you might’ve already explained it before and it might be exhausting to explain again, but I was wondering if you could tell me what disillusioned you with labor organizing? I’ve thought about doing work like that, or otherwise organizing communities as a means to help build a stronger progressive base, but as someone who’s already had experiences with that world and on some level seems to disagree with it, I was wondering what opinion you have about it all and why. Thank you.
im sorry but we cant deny the facts of the situation. voting 3rd party IS voting for your opponent in our voting system, and no amount of wishing upon a star will make a third party or independant candidate win or even contest any relevant positions. its how we ended up with a two party system in the first place. yes, this unfortunately means picking between the lesser of two narcissists, but youre gonna have to tank that guilt.
You only get one vote. If you vote for anyone other than your opponent, you literally cannot be voting for your opponent. Democracy doesn't work on "with us or against us" reasoning.
@@MouldMadeMind?? no, so, lets say in america's case, the closest we have for three separate parties is democrat, republican, and the very small libertarian party. politically, libertarian and republican are decently close, so if a republican decided to vote libertarian, theyre taking away from the republican voting population and adding it to libertarian. by all rights, libertarian will lose the candidacy due to their size, and republican will have lost a voter, giving democrat a stronger lead. if there were a socialist in running, voting for them would likely pull from the democrat voter base, and give republicans a stronger lead. the socialist candidate would have to fully replace the democrat one to work, which given where america's overton window is, especially since trump, its not gonna happen any time soon.
Fantastic video. It is highly critical that we understand this system is only allowed to persist for as long as we don’t recognize the necessary mechanisms of organization outside of electoralism. The frustration, the anguish, and the desperation are human. The hope, the determination, and the belief in a better world is human, too.
ThNk you for talking about this... Ive only recently learned about politics and i was feeling like my brain wasn't working because just learning these simple definitions i wasn't understanding whatsoever how or why people were fearing "possible" fascism. When all signs point to it Already being here, unless you are pale and middle class.
To US comrades and people on the left, in general. You don't have a left-wing and a right-wing party that you can choose. You have a right-wing party and an alt-right party. We need to end capitalism, and that won't happen in any elections. But continue voting as a palliative for the current situation. Venceremos (we will win).
i wouldnt say the state is fascist, it is definitely neo liberal though which lends itself to facism quit often largely ro to the nature of capital to accumulate in the hands of people that are most willing to exploit others. Capitalism is a right wing ideology and inharently oppresive but its not to the level of fascism YET. there for sure is an existing apharthied structure though wven if it isnt in the laws
@@chriswhite3006 brother at this point you better vote for the green party or your PSL both definitely a better choice, for they have not endorsed israel's genocide, but socialism doesn't really work, just take a look at the countries that are "socialist" and China is the one that says I'm a socialist but for it's people, cause outside of China my boy china acting like capitalist but capitalism is not inherently bad, is just how you manage it, etc.
@@caqs99 China's also pretty Fascist, I mean, Mao wasn't exactly the most swell dude, and Xi Jinping is just Mao 2 (he literally did a Plagiarism to Mao, the book of "Xi Jinping Thought" is literally just Mao's main book with all the Mao references replaced with Xi)
@@caqs99 oh come on now please go do more research on why capitalism doesn’t work without slavery and indentured servitude. And tell me why China’s economy is booming to the point of being only behind 🇺🇸 but socialism doesn’t work 🤔 hmm Cuba would like a word and so would the ussr prior to the collusion with 🇺🇸 to illegally collapse the union. Don’t misinterpret me and claim I want to copy any of the current or historical examples of socialism, but to say it doesn’t work is to clearly state your ignorance on the topic and lack of knowledge. There are so many books and examples of socialism working… Capitalism is literally the child of colonialism, which is inherently bad. Please check out Dr. Jared Ball’s book on the myth of black capitalism and read mark fisher’s book on capitalist realism.
As an elder, I’m so proud of your research skills Prince and the truth you’re sharing with your peers. 👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾I pray it it leads to further exodus from the 2Party trap & building a new one where all of you can thrive.
My algorithm gave me something good for once! From a more marxist perspective, I understand that economically speaking the US is fascist. I've never really been able to conceptualize the more superstructural elements of fascism in America and I learned a lot from this video.
But the state is fascist Edit: so happy to see lucretia and find out about about a rad podcast!!! Edit2: we all do deserve so so much more Edit3: 1:09:00 looking so so forward to future vid taking down prog politicians Edit4: this was a great video and exactly something i was looking for something that synthesizes a lot of thoughts to share with friends/close ones; also excited to add more books i need to buy, hyped to read those
As if your points weren’t concise enough; a state anywhere, in and of itself, is fascistic. You cannot have an outlined body, a “strong” militaristic force, and “class” based hierarchy and not be fascist. The police will always back the state and never broader social interest. The border automatically induces a hierarchical process and standard of “becoming a citizen vs ‘natural’ citizens”. You cannot have classes where an upper group can dictate the environment of the one’s bellow it and not be fascistic. Beautiful video brother. This year has shown who’s a leftist and who’s an enforcer of the status quo.
I think we need reform. I think an option between 2 people, or two parties, is not democracy, it's an illusion of one. If the American people have to literally pick between two whose entire schtick is "The other one will win", then again there's nothing to incentivize them to do better as elected officials. "Take what I give you, or else" Sounds like a deal where the people aren't actually choosing.
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You sure did work hard! Great job pulling this all together. This is the first video I've seen of yours. Subscribed and looking forward to more!
The U.S. is a fascist oligarchy.
Subscribed.
@@lostkeysnurse oh thank you so much! that means a lot1
I think given that Hitler and the Nazis looked to the Jim Crow South for inspiration on how to conduct racial discrimination and genocide correctly, it’s safe to say not only was the US fascist before it became trendy… ‘fascism’ was and is just a manifestation what the US/European colonialism-capitalism-imperialism has always been.
And United States look to Hitler how to segregate and track unvaccinated Americans during Covid. They also use the same propaganda on NBC that Joseph Gobboels used against the unvaxxed
Once you understand, the similarities between Covid and Nazi germany. The rabbit hole is endless. For example, the vaccine mandates were very similar to how Hitler came to power in 1933 and figured out who’s going to be loyal to him.
Covid and Nazi Germany were very similar. Same propaganda, medical experiments, segregating the unwaxed
And this is how I know I’m correct because UA-cam is a little bitch and they keep censoring my comments. And anybody who is against freedom speech I have zero respect for so stop censoring my comments UA-cam.
So I said this before, and I got taken down twice, but the similarities between the pandemic of 2020 and Nazi Germany are very similar. 1933 and the VAX mandates and how Hitler figured out who’s gonna be loyal to him or extremely similar
“I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.” Malcolm X
Damn that H-I-T..💔
'The state is fascist' boy that gonna make some ppl uncomfortable. But to achieve change you need to make ppl uncomfortable 👍
truly, power concedes nothing without a demand, and demands can't be made unless we all try to accurately assess the situation for ourselves
Why would it make certain people uncomfortable? Right wing alternative media has been saying this for years. People like Alex Jones, David Icke The problem is is that fascism now has been bastardized in liberal colleges to just include right wing government to say Donald Trump is fascist is correct but during his first president presidency, he really wasn’t that fascist until Operatin WS which was fascist as fuck. During his next presidency, you’re gonna see a wall being built. Not out of construction material but a digital wall. Because Trump is a big tech puppet And you’re going to see digital IDs being handed out to everybody just like the vaccine passport Bootlickers thought it was to use a QR code while going into a restaurant when unvaccinated people couldn’t. Just wait till they implement digital currency where you have to be a bootlicker to use the system
@@PrinceShakurUA-cam you have a very good video but I would complain to UA-cam because I’ve put several comments towards your video and they’re being censored
And I think you need to rectify that fascism is not just right wing. It can be left wing as well. It’s not steadfast to any side of the polity call spectrum
And I think you need to rectify that fascism is not just right wing. It can be left wing as well. It’s not steadfast to any side of the policall spectrum
I heard a quote somewhere that really rings true on the state of things across the world: "Germany lost World War II, but Fascism won"
“Prudence indeed…hath shewn that men are more willing to suffer where evils are sufferable, than to right themselves the wrongs that have been committed by abolishing the forms to which they have become accustomed.” The declaration if independence usa
What to expect from people who in 2024 still want to live under rules *written by actual slave owners* ??
Red Army Marshal Zhukov famously said: "We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it." And they never did.
@@nightraven2975 Fantastic quote, and we could really only see the forest once we ran far enough from the trees, so to speak.
Was that George Carlin? He's definitely said it, if it's not his.
I’m German, when I tell people around me that the denazification of Germany was not effective, they argue against it although many haven’t thought about it at all.
And then Germany is policing pro Palestinian discourse in the name of fighting antisemitism, literal insanity.
All this to agree with your point that fascism is repeatedly ‘rebranding’ itself
I'm with you. In my opinion, Germany was never properly denazified and they never properly apologized for what they did, because the Red Scare was seen as a bigger threat by the West (mainly the US).
But now it is very clear that fascism never really left. And you can see it slowly rising throughout western Europe. The future is bleak...
Once Jewish people received their white citizenship papers, Germany became anti-antisemitic ostensibly because they were the architects of the genocide. You couldn't care less about the genocide of Namibians. They were black.
It's fucked up because the German state, meaning the elected officials who make policy, are so paranoid about being perceived as antisemitic that they're literally being Nazis about protesting against Israel.
Seeing German Jews arrested by German cops for protesting against genocide was fucking insane.
How do they not see it?! 😮
@@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797I don’t think they’re afraid to come off as antisemitic. They’re just doing it because being a Zionist is beneficial
Even the zionist political movement seems more like the usa and germany collabed to make “the ultimate war machine”
I started crying when I saw your tears towards the end of your video. What a sick society we live in, where we bear witness to crimes against humanity on a daily basis and are expected to go along with our day like everything is fine. I hate it here.
Thank you for the work you do. Your voice is very much needed as an oasis of sanity and humanity in our cruel reality. ❤
glad to be honest and share all these thoughts! and it was a rough week, and so much connected to repression. i appreciate you
We are expected to go cote for 2 evils in return, getting rewarded with total disdain. In fact, they don't think they should work for your vote, no primary, no real debate. We need to be brave enough to pick someone else
Even worse, we are expected to support it otherwise we are gaslit into thinking were the bad guys.
The structure was always meant to keep rich people in power.
@@grmpEqweer Not o ly in power, but also in control of our right to have the freedom to control our destiny.
I was homeless for ten years and the states charged me well over 6000$ for crimes of poverty ie not having car insurance, camping but its called trespassing, and liscensce suspension when i never even knew i had court.
You make a good point. I always told ppl the lower class has it worse than the middle class.
And it's true when you are poor you could end up paying more to live
Not could it's pretty much a guarantee. If your sick and miss work you need a doctors note but if if your insurance isn't great that can easily end up costing as much as you would make in that shift. Public transport is garbage in most places in the us so in some areas especially rural you are almost required to have a vehicle in order to get to any jobs that make any kind of decent money and often you won't be able to afford repairs as they are needed. Since that is the case often you end up putting off repairs until things like tax season where you might have some disposable money but the damage done while operating the vehicle under that sate usually causes more damage making the repair cost even higher, If your in a financial bind and need a loan chances are a bank won't loan you the money so you're stuck with title loans and payday loans who's interest rates are obscene. You can't afford insurance or car registration that's a fine. Heck most of the fines that the states and cities use for funding are dependant on people not being able to afford something in the first place. Vagrancy is another fine, not able to pay that fine you go to jail that you have to pay for your stay there. can't afford that back to jail you go. pretty much any way they can tax poverty it is probably being done in the us.
@@battlecat3792 Another example is the boots economic theory, it's when the wealthier people have the privilege to access high quality items which don't break, such as boots whereas poorer people have to choose between those items and getting food, leading to increased expenses as they also need to pay for the things that adapt it that they wouldn't have if they had the luxury to buy the more expensive item.
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It’s actually sick how much they tax poor people. If I tell you, I can’t pay some thing and you actively are reaching out to me telling me I have to pay something. I’m confused.
As a non American, who is South of your border Kamala talking about having the most lethal military was super scary, because it's happening at the same time Venezuela was just threatening invasion to another country, their elections were crazy and unresolved, half of my country is on fire to the point that if it rains in my state we will have black rain because of the ash, and we have 60% of the Amazon, to non Americans seems like a lose - lose situation because regardless of who wins the policy is the same.
Please find out what Elon Musk has been trying to do in the Amazon since Bolsanaro was in power. He also tried to use his satellites to influence the election in Venezuela! Musk has given millions to Trump's election campaign and he is pro Israel!
The US is sending military aid to the country Venezuela is threatening to invade
If this reaches anyone, please donate food and clothes and bus passes to the most homeless dense areas in your city. The last of the COVID era protections are coming to an end Sept 30 and they will lose hundreds of shelter beds, no more homeless hotel vouchers, slower permanent supportive housing vouchers, less clothing, bus passes, work programs, and clinical medical services for those who have none. I work in social services for the homeless and it’s getting worse. Phoenix is having hundreds of heat deaths in spite of heat respite shelters (no beds but seats in ac.) please volunteer, donate season appropriate clothing, give food and water, give bus passes. Please help these people in your city. The state is squeezing the faucet of resources down. 🙏
What are good donation outlets for clothes and stuff Because I don't trust a lot of big charity groups to actually give clothing to people.
Seeing these old ass politicians trying to tiktok-ify themselves makes me cringe, even before getting into all the war crimes and rights suppression.
Truly truly..that's legit what my video next week is about - the memeification of US politics
@@PrinceShakurUA-cam I do think it's more of a complex argument than just saying it's irresponsible to meme about things as serious as politics. Like yes, we all need to check ourselves and not get carried away. And we should always remember a politician is a politician, you aren't supposed to like them. But gen z truly does communicate ideas and start movements through internet culture and things like memes.
For instance as ridiculous as it was, I don't think the 'coconut memes' we saw about Harris were all that problematic. I think the majority of the people making those edits were well aware of Harris' issues as a politician, but were using the medium to communicate how badly they wanted a different democratic candidate. Imo there's a generational turnover happening right now. And gen z legitimately communicate serious ideas using memes. It's also interesting to consider how social media affects the age at which gen z has been exposed to politics. My reading of the situation is you're seeing things like the 'memeification' of politics because younger, perhaps less refined?, voices are being heard more.
This channel has been a breath of fresh air and intellectual clarity amid the banality, un-truth, and horror we are living. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart
thank you so much for caring and watching! it means so much to me to synthesize ideas that may be helpful
Underrated channel 🔥🔥🔥🇿🇦🇵🇸
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I would love to hear your thoughts on the book “The Secure and the Dispossessed - how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world”. I’ve found it really interesting esp in considering how so many young organizers cite hurricane Katrina, dapl, cop city as formative moments
Oh I'll add that to my reading list
That’s exactly what the climate change agenda is all about. fascism. It’s big corporations controlling the state to gain more and more control. More control of our food, more control of our transportation, more police state, track, and trace, carbon taxes. And here’s the thing the Science is certainly not settled. I know one thing I ain’t giving up fucking steak or my car.
Thanks for talking about the unhoused. People don't think about how local governments are in some ways more fascist. The land court, building committee, town manager etc., everything is all but open about the fact that they DO NOT WANT LOWER CLASS PEOPLE IN TOWN. In fact, I'd say this is the main purpose of these local institutions. Rich places use lawfare to exclude middle class people, middle class places exclude working class people, etc. Tiny houses are a great solution to the housing shortage, but they are positively and specifically OUTLAWED in the vast majority of towns and cities!
Actually, I'm not sure it's fascist, because it's all about greed, in the former of home values (not that most people plan to sell, but they've been encouraged to put all their wealth into their home, and think only about market prices)
yes yes yes to all of that. i want to definetely do another video down the road about housing as a human right
Right?! It’s all roadblocked. Anything productive, beneficial. I would say it’s super fascist. And yes for greed! They for sure make MoRE money with homeless remaining homeless, and recidivism when they may happen to get off the streets.
I worked for the parks department of my very blue collar town taking phone calls. I got a call once from a guy reporting a homeless man’s tent saying “i thought id let yall know so you can remove him”. I didn’t report the call. I’m sure as hell not going to be the reason a man with nothing left gets metaphorically kicked in the ass again.
greed 🤝 fasism 🤝 fear
Correct, eucledian zoning is oppressive af and in addition it benefit$ developers/auto makers
I really hope this video gains traction, people need this perspective
i hope more people see it too, even if it's just to gain their own perspectives on fascism and how to begin to resist
Three dimensions of fascism historically that get overlooked: how an ostensibly anti liberal ideology mobilized the symbols of the authoritarian liberal state, from napoleon onwards. 2) the historical liberal to fascist pipeline (ie, influential liberal or even socialist bourgeois and statesmen that made a literal fascist turn, from mussolini to trump and musk), 3) that liberalism from its inception in the late 18th and 19th centuries was almost always an elitist, authoritarian school of political thought and praxis, and until the arrival of Bismarck, almost unilaterally opposed to the democratization of society, whether through opposition to granting suffrage to the poor and colonized, or to the labor movements which sought to democratize the economy
You forgot the main course of fascism. And that is the merger of corporations and the state to make laws and rules together with an authoritarian twist. Not listening to the people. so think Covid rules with the Democrats merging with big Pharma
In fact, you don’t even mention anything but corporations merging with the state. You can’t start off fascism without that. And your point of view about fascism is that its right wing fascism has elements of every political ideology across the spectrum. I think you need to broaden your horizons and taking more information to fully understand what fascism is. You have some points but it’s not complete and doesn’t cover all the bases of what fascism is and really could be
@@cpersiani4466no it doesn’t. Fascism doesn’t have political views from all over the spectrum. Fascism is strictly right wing. The most well known example of a fascist state is Nazi Germany which is a capitalist country. Also you’re insane if you think that covid rules are authoritarian.
@@Arabmarxistt that’s definitely not true and coming from a Marxist. I definitely question your sources.
@@Arabmarxistt and of course, the Covid rules were authoritarian you have no credibility. Put it this way if I was ever in front of you and you told me to wear a mask I would laugh right in your face and you would do nothing about it.
As a Muslim American who is FLABBERGASTED by how quick people switched over to support kamala when her candidacy was announced, I am truly grateful for this video. We deserve better and it’s sad that it needs explanation
I am hoping Harris can be maleable on her support for israel, but I know for sure she is much better than trump on the issue.
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The genocide is happening under her, fool
I’m black and Muslim and I grew up with a lot of Palestinians and so it’s so weird to me when people don’t understand the solidarity that I have with Palestinians is something that I have been doing my whole life and no one can change that.
I'm voting for Kamala but that doesn't mean I don't want 200% pressure when it comes to Palestine, whether that's in the form of demonstrations, protests, political pressure, etc. The Kamala presidency will provide a way for people to make demands and the same can not be said about trump. We are not voting for a saviour, we are voting for the ground on which we will continue to fight the next four years b
How many blonde and redheaded leaders in Muslim countries?
I’ll need to listen more than once before I can make a useful comment, but I’m glad you made this 👍🏾
First they came for the Palestinians, then they came for the Syrians, after that they came for the Lebanese, then they came for you. Wake up America, first Amendment matters.
Is this Anti-Semitic ?
@@Matthew-yw3oi Palestinian Christians in the West Bank being targeted by settlers and IDF
Assad, Russia and Iran came for the Syrians. USA did have some involvement in the destruction of Syria but the former three are the main perpetrators
@@Matthew-yw3oi It’s a repurposed poem about who the Nazis prosecuted, I doubt it
@@Matthew-yw3oiis being anti-fascist means being antisemitic now?
Man, I also cried when you talked about how we all deserve so much better. It's so sad watching all these folks not only accept but champion the toilet water we're being asked to drink when we know a better world is so eminently possible.
It’s the tragedy of the current society we live in.
We’re still made to eat shit just so that we don’t have to eat the even worse even more putrid shit.
I literally get people daily on facebook (I'm old) yelling at me for "complaining with no solution" and reminding them that the US doesn't deserve to even continue and you can't just fucking discuss the end of an empire online like that.
Excellent video. I don't see too many people breaking out of their endless fear-based voting cycles until the system crashes though.
Thank you for watching.
That’s just how movements go tho. They gain momentum. I think we are at a very critical point. We need to be as organized as we can be in these tumultuous times.
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We might not have any good candidates but we still have to vote for the better of two. Drumpf is really bad.
Sure, but voting won’t be enough
You should be getting way more views
Manifest destiny, and its evolution and development as a colonial ideology in Canada and Australia directly influenced the fascist colonisation of Ethiopia and Libya where the Nazis did training camps on how to enact the Holocaust. This ideology didn't pause in the US and just stay at it.
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Omg. When Lucretia said “we’re in an abusive relationship with the American government” my eyes almost left my head. I’ve been saying that exact thing for a while now and I was doing research to try to see if it’s already been dug into by organizers or radical mental health professionals and I can’t find anything.
thank you for tackling every subject with such range and naunce. im only 22mins in but this is one of the best videos i've seen this year
much appreciated
So happy to be a part of such an inspiring, thoughtful and moving video! Cornbread tube really did its big one haha
To be a part* I usually dont correct grammar, but a part and apart change your sentence to mean the exact opposite of what you mean.
@@TheModdedwarfare3a typo gave you the biggest ego boost how does it feel 😂
Tortuguita used they/them pronouns
Many thanks for everything 🏳️⚧️🌹
Thank you so much for catching that.
Thank you SO. MUCH. I've known this for a while, but it can be hard to articulate and I'm too sensitive to suicidal ideation to do my own research 😂 Looking forward to listening closely and taking notes 👍🏾💕
This is the best opening sequence for a youtube video essay ever
I think the US has always been fascist. We didn't even fight the war against Nazi's to save the Jews, we only did it because we where attacked.
Before that, we where just selling guns to the highest bidder so we could get richer. We benifited from the fighting, and didn't step in until it affected us.
We have our own history of slavery, genocide, concentration camps, and war crimes. We just aren't tought these things in school.
We need to make our country better, because it wasn't great in the first place. We have already won to be able to vote, we have won laws to protect against discrimination. Celebrate our successes, and continue forward.
Because we have a lot more to do.
The fascists did win ww2.
I know that it’s not popular to say, but there’s a correlation between this country’s extreme discomfort with sex and relationships and relative comfort with violence that plays out in the policies that outcomes that we see both at home and abroad. I see the direct derivation from slave masters and the manor in which they exercised power and control over people in many of these laws and customs. You largely see the inverse in Western European countries where people are pretty much the opposite, and they have much lower levels of violence.
Definitely, it all goes back to settler colonialism. The early euro settlers had very stiflling ideas around gender and sex, and it was one of the reasons for animosity with natives whom often but not always had very different fluid and open experiences with sexuality and gender norms. Ofc the euro settlers also brought chattel slavery, rampant militaristism which brought near total genocide and annihilation of native peoples and their worlds, industrial economy etc
I knew as soon as you started talking about Baldwin, I was in the right place. Keep up the great work ✊🏽
thank you ❤️
So glad I found your channel! This really reminds me of something I wrote in philosophy of war class this past summer about the Noam Chomsky quote where he basically states that every president post WWII could credibly be tried for war crimes by the ICC. Chomsky isn’t stating that every president post WWII is coincidentally a “bad person” fundamentally, but that the actions of every US president post World War II must be in line with holding the US’s hegemonic power over the rest of the world. It’s not that each one of them is supremely evil but that the power and expectations of the US president when it comes to foreign relations must be to prop up the country in order to maintain its position on the global stage. I think that this idea is key to understanding our two party system and understanding that neither party is “progressive” they both cater to imperialist ambition and, post WWII, MUST continue this pattern as it is the status quo. You explained this really well. Awesome video
UNTIL we ELECT people, who: LIVE AROUND us, WORK Real Jobs, Use Public Transport or are Farmers & Skilled Trades people or Teachers, etc…., or BEEN HOMELESS, etc….. , we GET SAME OLD B.S. !
EXACTLY!
Greenwood district, Tulsa Oklahoma never forget.
What a beautifully done video. I'm glad you showed up on my suggested videos. You've got a new sub.
Thank you, this will be a video i come back to to watch multiple times.
You don't know how many people I have gotten into arguments with because I called the United States a fascist nation, or the Democratic party's actions as fascistic. I use terms like 'systemic fascism', and I point out how the US government on a global scale is overtly fascist, especially outside the imperial core nations. Inside the US imperial core, the fascism is covert, ingrained in our systems. Fascism is not stagnant, it has evolved. These frames of critical thought isn't new for Black radicals like you and I. We are just rediscovering, and organizing these thoughts..which have already been pointed out by our own. Keep up the good work, it's crucial that we educate many people and shift their perspectives on what fascism is and what it looks like in various forms.
Been facist from jump!! Supports facist from inception!! 100%!!
While I think it’s super valid to feel unsafe talking about revolution I do think we need to find a way to guide people to local connections and revolutionary leaders. It’s my opinion that just saying it’s too dangerous to talk about contributes to fear that scares people from actually getting involved seriously in person. It is a form of self censorship I find extremely frustrating, and I think that’s also valid! These are just my thoughts and feelings about the subject, not an attack on anyone!
My girlfriend has struggled as a disabled woman to get involved in local revolutionary politics because CERTAIN organizations require dues (i understand that resources are necessary, but if it bars low or no income ppl from organizing, i find it ridiculous). We are sort of at a loss for where to go from here. I know revolutionary leftist organizing must be active somehow in our area, but it is hard to find while living a busy life.
I am not American. But I live here. In the US, the term "democrat" has a different meaning. It's a clever trick, and amazing how the vast majority of people don't see it or understand it. And if you try to explain that to them, they might hurt you.
Sorry but I have to vote for Jill Stein. After AOC insulted them, and watching that Breakfast Club interview, I officially switched affiliation from Democrat to Green ✅
I’m with Stein and Ware because of their stance on Palestine. They’re real people, not representing the elite. Also, out of Kamala’s mouth, “Israel has the right to defend itself.” I can’t vote for more of that at all. 💔💔💔
We all need to learn to vote any pafty but the two offered. Idt most americans really fit in either party anymore. Both are starting to lean too far .... i think we are def experiencing a party change. It happened in the past and will happen again.
@@ellanina801 Please go listen to Jill Stein talk about Russia and it's invasion of Ukraine. She has no principles, she is just a Russian plot to destroy the unity of the left.
Dude why, she had dinner with Putin and wouldn't denounce him in an interview with Medhi I believe. She is literally just a Russian shill dude, she has no idea how many people are in the house of representatives either which is laughable considering she's running for president. You are being conned and yes I hate Kamala but the alternative to Kamala is full on fascism and christo fascism at that with trump
this title and this first few minutes is an instant subscription for me ❤
thank you for watching and caring!
UA-cam's algorithm led me here.
This discussion has confirmed what I had strongly suspected for a very long time, decades, in fact. I've been saying that the US is fascist for pretty much the same reasons you've discussed. The way the US treated Native Americans in the late 19th century greatly inspired Hitler in how he built his concentration camps.
There hasn't been a true left in this country for the past 100 years. We've been moving further and further over to the extreme right for decades where Ronald Reagan looks like a radical leftist in comparison to today's standards. This is how far right the Democrats have moved.
Biden has elevated the US Empire Mega-War Machine to entirely new levels in the past 3 years.
it’s wild how nazism lived on in the hearts of americans. and the wallets. and the science labs.. and the
One of your best. And shoutout to your guest speakers! Can’t wait to share with everyone I know
Throwing it back to the Obama song took me out 😂😂
I don't think states are inherently fascist, but the US state is definitely fascist. Every liberal state is susceptible to going fascist because fascism is how rich people maintain control during economic unrest. If America had a communist revolution, the new state wouldn't be fascist unless it collapsed. You have really phenomenal energy, and I wish I had found your channel sooner.
How are we measuring fascism then? Is authoritarianism acceptable so long as it isn´t fascist? how would a communist revolution work when the majority of americans are middle class, and would have been executed for that under communist systems like the ussr?
@@MargaretBurmingham-qm5dx 4chan troll that just made their account 4 months ago spamming replies defending nazism and the US's imperial regime? Not surprising!
It has always been fascist like nothin' new, same sh*t since the beginning (-_-). Thanks a lot for this video, someone had to say it !
We (the rest of the world) specifically the Global South are fed up and tired for real real !
Anyway... ^_^
Happened on this video as I'm finishing the book Democracy Incorporated. If you like this video like I did, I'd recommend that book
The dance in the beginning everything! I want to party with you so bad!!
Yes . I was totally disappointed that the Gaza activists were given zero stage time!Yes they paraded out everyone else! The opportunity to educate by simply giving voice to the diversity of views . Amplify one and all!
What you said about why we resist ✊🏿💯🏆💚
Thank you for your analysis, words, and embodiment of those words. I find so much realistic hope oddly enough in your videos just simply because you are coming from a place of creation and showing what coming from a place of creation and love looks like.
Thank you for FACTS! It's about time
im still on the ads but all the education ive had on the USA, it doesnt take much more than the title to make me agree with your statement.
im still incredibly glad that you are making such a statement a lot of people are not willing to accept. “this election is between democracy and fascism”. uh dude, its been fascist since 1776 and before
Today I drove past a 400x300ft US flag, after listening to my mom talk about her Trump supporter friend, and while thinking of how Kamala is just another face of fascism, and my stomach sank...
I really want things to change, or for leftists to all move into the same general area and do our work building a society together
Thank you for this video ✊🏻💜🫂
You are so welcome!
Excellent video essay, Sweet Black Prince. Liked & subscribed. It's always a breath of fresh air when I hear others describing the same thing i see. Also, thank you for the intro to Lucretia McEvil. Her analogy is brilliant. One dimension to our current world that rarely gets mentioned by anyone, even my fellow leftists, is the role scientists and engineers play in the fascism. The DoD employs nearly 300,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, and mathematicians. Over a quarter of all physical scientists in the government work for the DoD. These are the people creating the weapons and technologies supporting the overall mission of the DoD that is ultimately steering the world into death. And above these scientists, which could be perfectly well-meaning people, there is always going to be a high-ranked bureaucrat who may not even be a scientist. That is a dimension of the story I'm interested in, because I believe it has unforeseen, often unintended downwind effects on our entire society.
It's only 5 minutes in and I just found your channel but already I find you inspiring
he is a good person, all the way through and through. I'm glad his channel found you through the algorithim!
@@mightymeatymech yeah he seems great! I'm happy to see people that are real abolitionists giving advice on action we can take. I'm surprised the algorithm took so long considering I've been interested in these subject for long 😭
Im so grateful to not be alone on these thoughts and worries in ohio, i feel like a lot of ohioans either dont understand why im so concerned, understand somewhat but approach fixing it in a way that wont actually work, or they are republicans lol
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts regarding our pacifying entertainment media being hyper violent and how that appears to desencitize people to the violence inflicted by the state here. Ive lived in a couple other countries and the violence i see regularly in the US on tv/movies/news is utterly nauseating to me.
i'm finding this while i'm currently Reading J. Sakai's book 'Settlers: the Mythology of the White "Proletariat"' and it's waking me up to the U$ Class dynamics(as a Euro-Amerikan) and realizing that yes this Nation was founded on Slavery and Settler colonialism to a Greater extent than i had ever realized.
This will be interesting to what you have to say.
Keep talking.
Mousollini defined fascism, and yes the US state constitutes a Fascist State.
No it doesn’t 😂
As an Italian, I agree. Btw, both fascist Italy and the USA looked at the Roman Empire as a model. The Roman Empire in many ways started this mess. That is why people like Musk, Republicans and neofascists are OBSESSED with The Roman Empire. Musk is even friends with Meloni and building a mansion in Italy. It's a nightmare.
Sorry, it's Mussolini btw.
Thank you so much for actually offering up a definition of fascism! So many have been throwing it around with no type of definition (which I know varies among historians) but the way both parties are denigrating immigrants, appealing to the middle class which historically leans fascist, and the anti democratic nature of corporations dictating our foreign and domestic policy
I think the definition provided is a little incomplete tho, the thing that separates fascism from authoritarianism is that it can only exist by systematically eliminating everyone who isn't them. That is what makes...say trump fascist. Another part is having this almost mythical strong man that will lead the country back to "greatness" from "degeneration".
We need to organize better instead of waiting for the next murder or tragedy to happen to finally want to stand up and stand together. We need to make our representation more visible and worth a damn by any party that panders to us instead of saying, "everything is fascist (when it's not) or everything is built against us (that's mostly true but if you know then shouldnt work to destroy that). We deserve so much more yet no one wants to do the work and get what they think they deserve or try and pick apart someone that looks like us to fit some narrative you built out of an anthill of an idea. Even if Obama and Harris didn't do anything but inspire people and let people that look like them know that they can do anything then they done something more life changing than any change in policy or reform could ever do.
Thanks king. Very insightful
Glad it was helpful!
i feel you. thank you for doing what you do.
Terrible dystopic times but gotta say that remix is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey, I know you might’ve already explained it before and it might be exhausting to explain again, but I was wondering if you could tell me what disillusioned you with labor organizing? I’ve thought about doing work like that, or otherwise organizing communities as a means to help build a stronger progressive base, but as someone who’s already had experiences with that world and on some level seems to disagree with it, I was wondering what opinion you have about it all and why. Thank you.
It's interesting how much the far left and the far right in common yet are so completely different different.
im sorry but we cant deny the facts of the situation. voting 3rd party IS voting for your opponent in our voting system, and no amount of wishing upon a star will make a third party or independant candidate win or even contest any relevant positions. its how we ended up with a two party system in the first place. yes, this unfortunately means picking between the lesser of two narcissists, but youre gonna have to tank that guilt.
You only get one vote. If you vote for anyone other than your opponent, you literally cannot be voting for your opponent. Democracy doesn't work on "with us or against us" reasoning.
So when I vote for third party I get three votes?
One for the third party, one for the republicans and one for the democrats?
@@MouldMadeMind?? no, so, lets say in america's case, the closest we have for three separate parties is democrat, republican, and the very small libertarian party.
politically, libertarian and republican are decently close, so if a republican decided to vote libertarian, theyre taking away from the republican voting population and adding it to libertarian. by all rights, libertarian will lose the candidacy due to their size, and republican will have lost a voter, giving democrat a stronger lead.
if there were a socialist in running, voting for them would likely pull from the democrat voter base, and give republicans a stronger lead. the socialist candidate would have to fully replace the democrat one to work, which given where america's overton window is, especially since trump, its not gonna happen any time soon.
Excellent video! Like, terribly sad + scary, but overall so inspiring/validating. So glad to have found your channel!
Fantastic video. It is highly critical that we understand this system is only allowed to persist for as long as we don’t recognize the necessary mechanisms of organization outside of electoralism. The frustration, the anguish, and the desperation are human. The hope, the determination, and the belief in a better world is human, too.
This was excellent, you got yourself a new subscriber
Homeless needs to stop. Health needs to be on if we're going to survive
ThNk you for talking about this... Ive only recently learned about politics and i was feeling like my brain wasn't working because just learning these simple definitions i wasn't understanding whatsoever how or why people were fearing "possible" fascism. When all signs point to it Already being here, unless you are pale and middle class.
There's no such thing as a "moral empire"
Why the hell has YT not shown me your channel yet? Subbed immediately
To US comrades and people on the left, in general. You don't have a left-wing and a right-wing party that you can choose. You have a right-wing party and an alt-right party. We need to end capitalism, and that won't happen in any elections. But continue voting as a palliative for the current situation.
Venceremos (we will win).
What's your solution to capitalism?
Socialism sure ain't the answer.
@@ricksgiggle8852 what a good little puppet you are.
such an amazing video!!!!!
Thank you!!
Im about 2 minutes in and you might be one of the funniest dudes on this app pissed I hadn’t found you sooner
Bro and now I’m like 50 minutes into the video and you ask the best questions what the fuck keep being an incredible UA-cam channel earned the sub
The video right before the title roll took me out
i wouldnt say the state is fascist, it is definitely neo liberal though which lends itself to facism quit often largely ro to the nature of capital to accumulate in the hands of people that are most willing to exploit others. Capitalism is a right wing ideology and inharently oppresive but its not to the level of fascism YET. there for sure is an existing apharthied structure though wven if it isnt in the laws
Innovating fascism …and its multiple faces. It’s important to realize how fascism changes in historical times and places.
It always was. The symbolism is everywhere.
That's why jill stein should be the only option for an actual change and not getting different sides of the same coin
That’s what I’m sayin! She and ware are representative of the majority, not the corruptoration war machine.
Why not the PSL?
@@chriswhite3006 brother at this point you better vote for the green party or your PSL both definitely a better choice, for they have not endorsed israel's genocide, but socialism doesn't really work, just take a look at the countries that are "socialist" and China is the one that says I'm a socialist but for it's people, cause outside of China my boy china acting like capitalist but capitalism is not inherently bad, is just how you manage it, etc.
@@caqs99 China's also pretty Fascist, I mean, Mao wasn't exactly the most swell dude, and Xi Jinping is just Mao 2 (he literally did a Plagiarism to Mao, the book of "Xi Jinping Thought" is literally just Mao's main book with all the Mao references replaced with Xi)
@@caqs99 oh come on now please go do more research on why capitalism doesn’t work without slavery and indentured servitude.
And tell me why China’s economy is booming to the point of being only behind 🇺🇸 but socialism doesn’t work 🤔 hmm Cuba would like a word and so would the ussr prior to the collusion with 🇺🇸 to illegally collapse the union.
Don’t misinterpret me and claim I want to copy any of the current or historical examples of socialism, but to say it doesn’t work is to clearly state your ignorance on the topic and lack of knowledge. There are so many books and examples of socialism working…
Capitalism is literally the child of colonialism, which is inherently bad. Please check out Dr. Jared Ball’s book on the myth of black capitalism and read mark fisher’s book on capitalist realism.
As an elder, I’m so proud of your research skills Prince and the truth you’re sharing with your peers. 👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾I pray it it leads to further exodus from the 2Party trap & building a new one where all of you can thrive.
My algorithm gave me something good for once!
From a more marxist perspective, I understand that economically speaking the US is fascist.
I've never really been able to conceptualize the more superstructural elements of fascism in America and I learned a lot from this video.
But the state is fascist
Edit: so happy to see lucretia and find out about about a rad podcast!!!
Edit2: we all do deserve so so much more
Edit3: 1:09:00 looking so so forward to future vid taking down prog politicians
Edit4: this was a great video and exactly something i was looking for something that synthesizes a lot of thoughts to share with friends/close ones; also excited to add more books i need to buy, hyped to read those
thank you for watching!
As if your points weren’t concise enough; a state anywhere, in and of itself, is fascistic. You cannot have an outlined body, a “strong” militaristic force, and “class” based hierarchy and not be fascist. The police will always back the state and never broader social interest. The border automatically induces a hierarchical process and standard of “becoming a citizen vs ‘natural’ citizens”. You cannot have classes where an upper group can dictate the environment of the one’s bellow it and not be fascistic. Beautiful video brother. This year has shown who’s a leftist and who’s an enforcer of the status quo.
I think we need reform. I think an option between 2 people, or two parties, is not democracy, it's an illusion of one.
If the American people have to literally pick between two whose entire schtick is "The other one will win", then again there's nothing to incentivize them to do better as elected officials.
"Take what I give you, or else"
Sounds like a deal where the people aren't actually choosing.
Wonderful video, a better world is always possible. Liberation is possible.
Yep.