I do agree that the US populace is largely pathetic and cowardly, Tankies absolutely included, and it’s one of the reasons I no longer take people from the US seriously when talking to them. Maybe a more apt phrase is ‘Scratch a coward and a fascist bleeds.’
But what of the larger world? Is the phrase still true? Because when I hear liberal, I assume the status quo, the average European, the average Commonwealth nation, someone who values democracy, individualism and equality.
Anarchists threaten the status quo far more than a fascist. Liberals still want government, hierarchy, property. And as long as you are not a minority or dissident, fascists will not threaten that. Anarchists however do. How an anarchist expresses individualism, equality, and democracy is fundamentally different from a liberal’s. Do I think all liberals would side with a fascist over an anarchist? No, but I would probably bet on it.
I do agree that the US populace is largely pathetic and cowardly, Tankies absolutely included, and it’s one of the reasons I no longer take people from the US seriously when talking to them. Maybe a more apt phrase is ‘Scratch a coward and a fascist bleeds.’
But what of the larger world? Is the phrase still true? Because when I hear liberal, I assume the status quo, the average European, the average Commonwealth nation, someone who values democracy, individualism and equality.
Anarchists threaten the status quo far more than a fascist. Liberals still want government, hierarchy, property. And as long as you are not a minority or dissident, fascists will not threaten that. Anarchists however do. How an anarchist expresses individualism, equality, and democracy is fundamentally different from a liberal’s. Do I think all liberals would side with a fascist over an anarchist? No, but I would probably bet on it.
That is a good point, I can’t think of any anarchist parties from the top of my head that had as much attention as fascist parties.