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> "regular and peaceful change of government"

This has already been broken, and they've become so much more bold since then.

The monopoly on the use of force has gotten kinda blurry as well these days. As long as people keep electing anti-government governments, the risk of technocracy is very real.

Unfortunately this will keep happening in capitalist systems without hard wealth caps, because capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth, so they will inevitably keep spreading & stoking fascist ideas.

March 1933 election

"For the general election of 5 March 1933, the Nazis were allied with other nationalist and conservative factions. At a secret meeting on 20 February, major German industrialists had agreed to finance the Nazis' election campaign."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

> capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth

I think that if you study socialism in the 20th century you cannot say this seriously when you compare the alternatives.

Ah yes, it's obviously acceptable that the richest people on this planet are deliberately and explicitly trying to pull us into fascism, because every single alternative must be even worse, because SOCIALISM!

Good thing you reminded us, otherwise we might've had critical thoughts about the current system.

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