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All fascism is nationalist. There’s no ‘other instance’. And a common theme in the rise of fascism is a compromise between the rich (capitalists, local gentry, etc.) and the fascist organisation, where the former bankrolls the latter in return for maintaining their economic and social position / backdoor deals / protection. Further, this usually happens as a result of some marginalised group - factory workers, serfs, women, etc. getting too uppity.
The Hindu’s website is a UI disaster, which is sad as they are probably the best newspaper in India in terms of content. If you have Firefox, try using Reader Mode.
As of now, it seems the court’s ruling is that the state should not discriminate between couples on the basis of gender, at least for spousal benefits.
For Asia as a whole, three places - Taiwan (decriminalised in 1991 / full equality in 2019), Nepal (2007/2023) and Thailand (1956/2024) - have full marriage equality, while China (1997/2017), India (2018/2022) and parts of Japan (1882/2020s) recognise same-sex relationships in some form and give them some benefits.
Most remaining countries neither prohibit nor legally recognise same-sex relationships. Some West Asian countries have bans on homosexuality, with varying levels of enforcement and punishment.
Another point to note is that in most parts of Asia, being transgender is much more acceptable, so same-gender couples are often pressured to become ‘normal’ by one partner transitioning - at least on paper - to the other gender. Iran is probably the most extreme case - homosexuality is a serious offence that can be punished with jail or even death, but gender transitioning surgeries are subsidised and gay people are pushed to use them.
Trying to think of that one time fascism was economically beneficial to capitalists… Nope. I can’t recall one.
Almost all fascist politicians were supported by local elites who thought they could control them. Sometimes they could; sometimes the fascists got too strong to be controlled.
This is good. The border issues need to be resolved, of course, but the economy is much more important.
There is a saying, something along the lines of ‘politics is the shadow that economics casts over society’. Now obviously there is no one to one correlation between a country’s economic and political systems, but rich people often respond to calls for economic reform by trying to make the public fight among themselves. Fascism is one possibility, ‘culture war’ is another, bread and circuses a third, and so on.
The only consistent components of fascism are an autocratic government and a dictatorial ruler, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible nationalism through suppression of opposition.
This is authoritarian nationalism, not fascism. All fascism is nationalist and authoritarian, not all nationalism or authoritarianism is fascist. Bismarck, Churchill and Erdogan are/were authoritarian nationalists, but I wouldn’t call any of them fascist.
