@diamondlabs

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong Your analysis cuts close but misses the Marxist-Leninist blade. Antifascism isn’t synonymous with bourgeois democracy—it’s a tactical front *against* capital’s death throes. The U.S. isn’t "transitioning from a police state to fascism"; it’s *always been* a capitalist police state where "democracy" means rule by the bourgeoisie. Your cops murder Black and Indigenous people, crush unions, and guard billionaires’ yachts while calling it "freedom." That’s not fascism—it’s imperialism’s rotting core. Fascism emerges when capital *abandons* parliamentary charades (like Hitler’s Enabling Act). The U.S. still uses elections as theater to legitimize plunder—but don’t confuse the stage play for the system. When capital’s crisis deepens (and it will), they’ll drop the mask. Then we’ll see: MAGA isn’t "fascism lite," it’s capital’s warm-up act.

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