There seems to be a lot of promotion of the idea that the imperium is more fascist than feudal. I’m not seeing that.
I think a lot of people tend to forget that the imperium is neither a centralized authority nor a federation. It’s a horribly decentralized, disorganized, and mismanaged confederation of star systems that works to keep several species of humans alive.
Reminder, the great crusade was never finished because of the whole ‘Horus has some daddy issues’ thing. This also means that there are hundreds to dozens of thousands of human worlds that exist outside of the imperium’s control. Some may not even be in the Milky Way.
It also doesn’t help that most of the planets that did get annexed were never stabilized after the civil war ended. Most human worlds are still recovering from the effects of the age of strife, and the imperium has been largely absent in directly managing these planets. The only real thing the imperium does is collect taxes, kill secessionists, and fight aliens and or demons. That’s it.
Ignoring that basic responsibility, most of the imperium is left to whatever it has. The imperium doesn’t really have any ability to actually do much for its citizens. Most people rely literally on feudal lords, walled cities, slavery, religious communalism, and serfdom to survive the aftermath of the age of strife and the existential threats of the galaxy.
>>38902 The complete extermination of other races, even space elves, was likely originally designed by the creators to portray Gothic darkness, creating a monster that was a fusion of feudal Europe and fascist states. However, later it seems that some people became… obsessed with this setting. No one in Warhammer Fantasy (the Old World) seems to have ever brought up any fascist issues, even though the medieval witch hunters were similarly extreme in their treatment of suspected heretics.
对异族的完全清洗，即使是太空精灵，设计者一开始应该是为了描写哥特黑暗，创造一个封建欧洲和法西斯国家融合在一起的怪物，但是后来有人似乎对这个设定感到…..狂热。中古战锤应该没有人说有法西斯问题，即使中古的猎巫人也同样极端对待疑似异端的人
>>38903Not just other species, but all other modes of thought. The Great Crusade is the Emperor running over a hundred thousand human cultures and turning them into a parking lot, because they would not conform to his incredibly myopic, narrow vision of what it is to be human.
Of course this is inevitable, because the Emperor has set himself the task of saving humanity, while he despises humanity, save for a handful who he has personally genetically designed. His solutions can therefore only be fascist.
>>38905dissolving all cultures in a materialist way is based
dissolving all cultures in a humanist way is undialectic immaterial reactionary essentialist nonsense
>>38900I mean I certainly see it as a feudal mode of production as far as the underlying economic logic goes.
Since fascism as an ideology is not fundamentally concerned with economics I suppose its possible it could be both, but it seems kind of muffled to me to be honest.