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The Middle Class Is Always Fascist

The Middle Class Is Always Fascist

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Robert Lindsay
Jul 31, 2024
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GG: If the middle class would wake up and join in solidarity with the working class against the wealthy, then they'd be better off too.

Never happens. They always ally with the fascists, and that's when they don't actually become the fascists, which they often do. When push comes to shove the middle class is always fascist to the core. That's why the middle class is shit.

This is also why liberals, as in liberal Democrats, are fascists. They say,

Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.

I say

A liberal is just a fascist in a cardigan.

The real problem here is that all liberals are either capitalists or they are ideologically tied in with the capitalist system.

In a choice between any sort of Left project, including something as basic as raising the minimum wage, the middle class always supports the Right, a rightwing dictatorship, or more typically out and out fascism.

Remember all of those horrible rightwing dictatorships the US supported during the Cold War? The middle classes in all of those …

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