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    Fascism Is the True Face of Capitalism By Bertholt Brecht, 1935 Archived Message

    Posted by MikeD on November 13, 2019, 10:12 am

    Fascism Is the True Face of Capitalism

    By Bertholt Brecht, 1935

    ...But how can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism, which brings it forth? What will be the practical results of such truth?

    Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood. They are easily satisfied if the butcher washes his hands before weighing the meat. They are not against the property relations which engender barbarism; they are only against barbarism itself. They raise their voices against barbarism, and they do so in countries where precisely the same property relations prevail, but where the butchers wash their hands before weighing the meat...

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    • Fascism Is the True Face of Capitalism By Bertholt Brecht, 1935 - MikeD November 13, 2019, 10:12 am