You did it, you absolute mad lads you brought it back.

That doesn’t absolve any fascist or their enablers from their behavior, but it is very important to recognize that there is valuable similarities to be understood between these past events, and the threat of fascism we are dealing with currently.

There’s a very real sense in which the way that people embrace the mythology of right wing fascism today comes from the same kind of displacement that has occurred from religion declining broadly and a second technological Industrial Revolution shifting capital and displacing old roles as before.

Unironically yes. A contemporary psychologist of Nazi Germany, Eric Fromm, wrote a book detailing how the shift in Europe to Protestantism and the Industrial Revolution lead to people in struggling societies feeling displaced from fixed roles and to embrace sadistic leaders and exhibit masochism.

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