Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“There seems to be a great deal of overlap, probably not by accident, between the edgelords who say ‘America/capitalism has always been fascist,’ and the assorted tankie, campist, and Dirtbag Left types — Greenwald, Dore, Taibbi, etc. — who actually hate liberals and centrists worse than they hate full-blown fascists. They have a lot in common with Third Period Stalin, who, by denouncing Social Democrats as ‘social fascists’ and forbidding Communists to join them in united fronts, facilitated the Nazi rise to power while at the same time alienating many potential sympathizers. Indeed, as they say ‘America was always fascist’ and ‘liberals are fascist,’ these people often wind up denying that the actual fascists themselves are fascist.” (08/20/25)