schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureatewww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square300fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWeber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago Fascism was an outgrowth of capitalism that’s barely a century old. This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
Weber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
Oh, I see. My mistake.