Fascism is left-wing, my uneducated friend. Fascism is totalitarianism, and it’s literally impossible to have small, limited government totalitarianism.
Under imperialism, finance capital can seize power and impose its dictatorship both within its own country and in other countries.
At the same time, the dictatorship of financial capital within a country can take the form of open terrorism, or fascism—as was the case in Germany, Spain, and Italy in the 1930s and 1940s, or in Chile in the 1970s.
Or it may take the form of bourgeois democracy, as is happening in “developed countries” today. There, without a doubt, the dictatorship of finance capital is established, and the primary document for any person is not a passport or a driver’s license, but a credit history. In order to function normally there, one must have a good credit history. That is, to be an obedient slave of finance capital.
And we understand that in foreign policy, the dictatorship of financial capital can also take two forms:
- in the form of economic expansion, the “legitimate” strengthening of its own influence over the economies of other countries, and the subjugation of their production sectors;
- in the form of the destruction and annihilation of other states, followed by the establishment of regimes within them that act in the interests of the aggressor country’s financial capital.
Moreover, this destruction can be carried out either by its own forces or by the forces of subordinate states.
Or perhaps through the hands of a “fifth column”—that is, forces within the victim country that are controlled by the aggressor country’s financial capital.
We can observe all these scenarios in the world today. It is also clear that the policies of financial capital can be fascist domestically but quite “respectable” in foreign policy, and vice versa—domestically, the norms of bourgeois democracy may be observed, while in foreign policy the crudest forms of terror and direct military intervention in the affairs of other countries may be employed.
