The entire Nazi ideology is rooted in victim mentality. The notion that the "Aryan" race is being oppressed by those barbaric Jews, Slavs, Romani, Chinese, etc. And because of that they need to exterminate those people before they can exterminate the Aryans.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Victim mentality is on the rise, for two reasons. Firstly people are being led to believe their special and entitled to success without work, and secondly because success has become unattainable even with work.

I think this may have something to do with the rise in Nazism in capitalist countries.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

"Fascism is capitalism in decay"

-- IDK

Edit: I think it's also the reactionary response capitalists have to left wing momentum in the population. Hitler leveraged the threat of communism to gain power and the first people he sent to camps were German communists. Sound familiar with this whole woke thing? When a population is stressed they will generally lean either far left or right and the right wing is in power and want to suppress the left wing.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

While I agree that when there's a push for change by the left, the elite will redirect it towards the right to save themselves, I don't think that's what's happening here. There isn't an effective push for change on the left for them to fight.

The rise of Trump among young voters was driven in part by the failure of the Democrats to offer a credible alternative (same in the UK), the global rise in the far-right in general (even in countries where they have no credible path to power, like Germany or Australia) is due to the unique psychology our environment has created for this generation.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 11 points 13 hours ago

it's white identitarism.