Liberty and security works because in the first panel liberty is using security like you would a guard dog. It's a tool that then outgrows itself and destroys what should be it's owner.

Your your adaptation to work there would need to be cases where civility uses low level fashism.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This framing of the relationship between liberalism and fascism not only presents them as complete opposites, but it also defines the very essence of the fight against fascism as the struggle for liberalism. In so doing, it forges an ideological false antagonism. For what fascism and liberalism share is their undying devotion to the capitalist world order. Although one prefers the velvet glove of hegemonic and consensual rule, and the other relies more readily on the iron fist of repressive violence, they are both intent on maintaining and developing capitalist social relations, and they have worked together throughout modern history in order to do so. What this apparent conflict masks—and this is its true ideological power—is that the real, fundamental dividing line is not between two different modes of capitalist governance, but between capitalists and anti-capitalists. The long psychological warfare campaign waged under the deceptive banner of ‘totalitarianism’ has done much to further dissimulate this line of demarcation by disingenuously presenting communism as a form of fascism.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What a load of tripe

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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