Reflections on History, Science, Capitalism, and the Roots and Menace of Trumpism-Fascism

I decided to put this up despite me dropping the ball a bit in minutes 20-22. What I needed to say there and didn’t is that capitalism’s inherent tendency towards the concentration of wealth and power tends to undermine popular faith in bourgeois democracy and rule of law, making masses of people more disposed to embrace the “fixes” promised by authoritarian leaders, including revanchist and eliminationist brutes like Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump (fascism’s arch-authoritarian “fixes” leave capitalism intact, of course; serious socialist and authoritarian fixes would not). After viewing this, I realized I’m not sure about the correctness of my comments on how US capitalists supposedly envy the authoritarian Chinese model. Still, I like the general overall nature and direction of this talk enough to put this up.