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Musk’s salute at Trump’s Inauguration (sic) doesn’t make him a Nazi

Musk’s $250 Million donation to an autocratic usurper Makes (sic) him a Nazi-producing industrialist

Musk is to Nazis what the Hostess board of directors is to Twinkies


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  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    13 hours ago

    Nazis are monarchists. Granted, for starters they’ll settle for oligarchy or dictatorship but the end result is getting back to classic feudalism.

    That was Hitler’s fantasy at least, to have his principals become his upper nobility and the SS become their landed knights. He was attracted not only to the wotanic gods, but in fact the Wagnerian interpretation of them. It would be as if MAGAs believed not only in Thor, but the MCU version.

    In the case of the new Trump administration, Musk is not the only one who wants to control political power, but the tech bros do as well. Vance is Peter Theil’s toady and is Theil’s vector to get his voice heard. They want to be kings, and ultimately kings over each other. It may even result in a violent contest. (Not a gladitorial one between them, themselves, but whatever armies and assassins they can raise.)

    The horizon point of the far right is the consolidation of all power to one point, and given they are really into passing that power to their next of kin (or trying to live forever, so far failing) it’s monarchy.

    According to Karl Marx in Das Kapital, this is always the bitter end of capitalism, and so, given an unlimited amount of time, eventually we give up on systems that focus power, or have stratified wealth, for something else that works. Communism, anarchism or something we haven’t fully fleshed out yet.

    • Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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      I guess the problem is that I just don’t see the desire in modern right wing leadership for passing on their power to their next of kin. Hitler didn’t have kids. Elon doesn’t seem to have very good relationships with his kids and has stated that he won’t be giving his companies to them. And none of Trump’s kids are working for the Whitehouse for his second term.