The “trick” has been known from the start: Remove the seeds and fertile ground fascism grows in, i.e. capitalism.

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that this is human nature, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

The reason for fascism’s existence in every sense of the word is to keep capitalism going with a fool’s revolution when people are desperate enough for an actual one to happen.

Here’s the old guard fantasising about fascism in their DMs while Hitler was a teenager:

In 1905 Milner, one of the more far-seeing leaders of the older British imperialism, described in a private letter the only hope that he could see for the salvation of bourgeois rule:

“Perhaps a great Charlatan-political scallywag, buffoon, liar, stump orator, and in other respects popular favourite-may some day arise who is nevertheless a statesman-the combination is not impossible- and who, having attained power by popular acts may use it for national ends. It is an off-chance, but I do not see any other.” (Milner, letter to Lady Edward Cecil, The Milner Papers, Vol. II, 1899-1905.)

Here we see the bourgeoisie consciously groping for the forms of Fascism long before Fascism existed. The fact that so lifelike a description of Hitler or Mussolini could have been penned a decade before these began to play their role is a striking confirmation of how little it is personality that creates history, and how much rather history calls forth the personality that it requires at a given stage.

I have socialized healthcare and really bad teeth and let me tell you it’s still a huge issue 😩