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minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish9•8 months agoWeber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
minus-square@girlfreddy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months ago Fascism was an outgrowth of capitalism that’s barely a century old. This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
minus-square@Aqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoWere they? That parses as “fascism, an outgrowth of capitalism, is a century old”.
Weber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.
Oh, I see. My mistake.
Were they? That parses as “fascism, an outgrowth of capitalism, is a century old”.