>>2399614>it could have been a pressure release value for many of the otherwise fatal contradictions of fascist economics. Yep. From what I've read, the rural areas were overpopulated with a lot of Germans still working in labor-intensive agriculture (people don't realize how many people were still working the land with horse-drawn plows in the 1930s, including the U.S. and Canada like this pic, and Germany had a higher percentage of its population working in farms than them, France, and the U.K.). But the Nazis wanted to preserve private land ownership, so by Lebensraum, they could export the surplus farmhands to the east and turn them into settlers, and the larger land owners could then consolidate the smaller and less-efficient farms.
The settler-colonialism in the West Bank is also driven by religious settlers. But that's not the majority of them at this point. The majority, from what I've read, is everybody else now because housing prices are cheaper there.
>>2399622>yeah there is something very distinct about the way zionism is able to possess and animate the entire mythology & history of jews into a legitimizing narrative. Well you'll hear people say that the Zionists made a bunch of shit up about their nation. Which is true. But that's the whole history of nationalism. It always started with a relatively small group of elites who then popularized the idea over many decades. And they'd either invent myths or borrow them off the shelf to legitimize their "nation." It then requires certain historical and material conditions for it to take root among everybody else, and certain conjunctural historical events for the nationalists to declare independence and their nation to enter into "history" I suppose. And it's often among the masses for whom nationalism later becomes the most virulent. Some national movements don't quite make it or get blocked halfway like Quebec.
>that israel has a foot further in the door of recognizable fascism than other settler-colonial project.I mean just watch that video. It's all skulls and flames. It looks very fascist to me. It's seductive. Is Israel a "fascist" regime? I dunno, but that ethic definitely exists there. I think you can say that the fascist regimes in the 20th century were manifestations of a reactionary potentiality in their time.
>which, again, isnt even necessarily a value judgement.For me, I want to be able to gauge the thing with some degree of accuracy. After the Al-Aqsa Flood op, a lot of leftists who don't like Zionism were like, ah, Israel is finished now. They would also say it's fascist and modern-day Nazi Germany, but I don't know if they really believed that or would just say that to make a strong statement, because they drew an erroneous conclusion about what would happen based on their theory that it's just a settler-colonialist state. The issue with nationalism, however, is that people will fight and kill for it. I find it rather frightening, but my point is, they're not going to skedaddle that fast. If one base their strategy on a theory that it's merely settler-colonialism, then I think the strategy is going to have a major flaw. But they don't really study Israel. Or what Israelis think. What they think might be horrible. But people don't ask the question: how are Israelis going to react to this? They just believe Israelis will react how they want them to react, not how they will actually react. Maybe this is a strawman but I don't think so.
You also see Iran now leaning into Persian nationalism and mixing that together, because there are Iranians who don't like the clerics, but they are proud of being Persian and don't like being bombed by Israel.