Do you even 20th century, Erich?
Do you even 20th century, Erich?
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Fantastic documentary, I was just rewatching it earlier today.
I don't know what to say about how anti-intellectualism fits into it. Seems to me that's more of a communist thing, what with the bourgeois aristocracy being the educated ones who don't represent the common people so they need to be removed.
No denying it's part of the populism of the right today though. I guess it's a great tool for any murderous regime.
The marked difference has got to be whether there's an emphasis on race or not, doesn't it? How you divide people up? Is it based on race, or class? The result is the same but the lines are different.
Originally Posted by Loire
There's some commonality: as you mentioned they were both genocidal, dictatorial, autocratic regimes with a fondness for legends, myths, blood and soil. You'd struggle to make the comparison stick, though. The language of a communist state is too frequently opposed to the language of the fascist state. In particular the framing of the Khmer regime as a revolutionary struggle that must only look to the future where all were equal - the point of executing people for showing signs of deference or for using terms other than "comrade" and "brother" to refer to one another. Nazism, like most ultra right wing ideologies, is embedded in the mythology of the past and of the hierarchy.
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mayocide when
literally
O’RLY?
So all those Latin American and Asian fascists the US has supported in the face of local socialist movements is just something that never happened?
And social democratic and liberal parties in Germany and Italy undermining socialist and communist parties did nothing to open the way for Mussolini and Hitler, right? And the economic liberalization of post-Soviet Russia did nothing to help Putin consolidate power, right?
And American liberal organizations have never defended the free speech of fascists, or condemned attempts to deplatform fascism, or led “better dead than red” campaigns, or anything like that, right?
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post hoc ergo propter hoc etc. etc.
Also I'm with Djan. This new fangled weaponisation and bastardisation of the term "liberal" to attack anyone to the right of Comrade Ralph is fucking absurd.
Umm, newfangled?
Lamartine rejects the red flag. Paris, 1848. I’d mark this as the moment where the real split between socialist left and liberal center occurred.
Also:
There’s nothing new about socialists using the term “liberal” perjoratively. It’s just fallen out ofnfavor in the US as the right succeeded in conflating liberalism and socialism in the popular political consciousness, and socialist thought was generally suppressed in the later part of the last century.
As socialism re-emerges as a viable political force in the US, so too has the phenomenon of liberals taking flak from both the left and the right.
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Yes groups like the ACLU have defended the free speech of fascists and nazis. Because they know that the erosion of rights will start with fringe groups. What exactly is your point?
And before the euros start bleating about their precious hate speech laws, would any of you really trust such laws to the body of shit heels known as the US Congress, or to people like Jeff Sessions?
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My point is that the ACLU was not founded as a general purpose civil rights shop. It was founded in the early 20th century to defend anarchists, communists, and socialists from prosecution under the Sedition and Espionage acts. It then purged its leadership of leftists in the middle of the century, embraced liberalism, stopped defending the speech communists and socialists (remember when they refused to defend Paul Robeson?), and began defending Nazis.
Funny how that works.
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Yes. As in started being used in fashionable hipster leftwing online circles all of about six weeks ago. As in being intentionally abused for shock and propaganda purposes because it's easier to attack "them" when you can give them a label. Because it's easier to attack "them" when you've defined "them" to be a group so large you can viably attach the label to anyone you damned well please; anyone you deem to be outside of your current ideological vogue. It's a meaningless, bastardised use of the term and your attempt to link it back to utterly irrelevant, centuries old history is a paper thin facade that makes you look like a fool.
Politics of identity is self-defeating.
ahahaha.As socialism re-emerges as a viable political force in the US
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...trump-wto-bill
According to Axios, a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill would essentially “declare America’s abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules” by allowing the president to raise U.S. tariffs at will, “without congressional consent and international rules be damned.”
Originally Posted by lubica
It's illiberal. But people who believe in liberal economic principles will still support it.
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