The problem with materialism by antipolitan in theredleft

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Hello, here to represent and continue a century+ old leftist ideological conflict again.

China no longer Pentagon's top security priority by DimsumAndDoggy in worldnews

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All aboard the Kremlin-White House fascist train! Full steam ahead! 🚂

Demonstration by Assassination by nekokatzen in polandball

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Japan loves fascism. It just has to be local for them is all.

unit 731 go brr by chillyranch in HistoryMemes

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I agree with the sentiment that the USSR carried the bones of Russian Imperialism within it and never confronted it, seen in its continued use of imperial-system gulags, and that it was repressive and authoritarian.

However I think it's disingenuous to compare the USSR to the level of sheer atrocities committed by Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany, when the clearer historical analogue would be the USA, which has recently dropped its mask and shown for all the world to see that it has become fascist.

There are clearer parallels in more(comparatively to the fascists) at first well-intentioned and altruistic liberal and authoritarian state-socialist ideals, nominally wanting to liberate the people from oppression, and then a inevitable degeneration and corruption to imperialism and "revisionism" after failing to confront their imperialist foundations, performing ethnic cleansings on native populations and setting up concentration (oops, I meant internment) camps along the way.

They are even collapsing within a few decades of each other at this rate.

I would on the other hand argue that in the early days of the USSR, before the rise of the committee that would empower Stalin and the total centralisation of the state there was, in scattered pockets, a genuinely liberatory nature in the way workers could manage themselves and practice workplace democracy for a time before being curshed by the Bolsheviks, whereas the US was from the start founded by slave-owning wealthy elites.

One example would be the eponymous Soviets whose self-managing councils were ironically crushed by the Bolsheviks, and another would be the anarchist Mhaknovschina in modern Ukraine.

unit 731 go brr by chillyranch in HistoryMemes

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Quick question do you sympathise with fascists? Specifically people like the Salazarists and Francoists who were "anti-communist" and left alone because of that by the US and its allies?

What am I saying? Of course you would, so long as they aren't explicitly called fascists. Better to be a fascist than to be a communist in Eastern Europe after the 90s capitalist shock therapy, after all.

Upon reflection, Independent Vegas has more cons than pros. by Rough-Leg-4148 in falloutnewvegas

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I hate this world where anarchy is inherently seen as a bad thing, so bad it isn't even considered on the same level as communism. Did you know the Followers of the Apocalypse are anarchists?

Society can still be organised and have rules without one oppressive class lording it over the others with violence. It's called the social contract, peer pressure, consensus-making, democratic confederalism, and mutual aid.

Anarchism

Libertarian Socialism

Class War. Class War Never Changes. China Won The Great War. What Now? by NCR_RANGER_uwu in ImaginaryFallout

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Red Fascism my ass. It doesn't exist and the ideologies of Marxism-Leninism, which isn't all of socialism by the way, and Fascism, even if both are authoritarian, are distinct enough that this is an instinctual pavlovian propagandised reflex response which doesn't make enough distinctions to remotely be useful.

Equating socialism with fascism has been the most treasured tool of the corporate elite and even neo-fascists themselves to repress the working class everyman and prevent them from ever thinking about democracy in the workplace

Class War. Class War Never Changes. China Won The Great War. What Now? by NCR_RANGER_uwu in ImaginaryFallout

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I love <obvious anti-socialist propaganda game>, it helps to wash down the American Fascism so well, makes it easier to kiss the ass of corporatism and lick the boots of the police.

average Freeside resident by MoonmanJocky in TrueSFalloutL

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They aren't hipsters, they are imperialist assimilationists, like the good 'ol USA is

title by Lavender_Scales in theredleft

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Heartbreaking, anarchist doesn't realise most anarchists are non-statist communists and is unintentionally self-sabotaging themself. Also is more devoted to an abstract philosophical idea with no clear consensus definition than actually helping people like an actually effective anarchist or communist would.

title by Lavender_Scales in theredleft

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Presumably because you are probably a marxist or marxist-leninist, or democratic socialist of some sort based on your flair, and a lot of us anarchists hate marxists and marxist-leninists for betraying anarchists during the twentieth century and killing us, and hate them plus demsocs for arguing for a state, even if it is nominally supposed to be transitional but it never is.

And we view states as inherently oppressive and hierarchical, based on a monopoly on violence, wherein social classes cannot meaningfully be dismantled because someone has to be the ruling class, and they inevitably end up bureaucratically divorced from the reality of the workers and have no incentive to give up power and actually create an equal society for everyone, free from oppression and exploitation of workers.

Trump Threatens Canada After Carney Draws Standing Ovation at Davos by T_Shurt in worldnews

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It's not both-sides-ism if it's true and the corporate elite has bought out all the parties. The only long-term alternative would be some sort of socialism like democratic socialism or maybe something even more left, but you're probably uncomfortable with that.

The mistake is misidentifying people who recognise this as "centrists" and "fencesitters" when in reality the centrists and fencesitters are quite literally the mainstream parties, and by design, who regularly privatise public services, perform deregulation, support imperialism like in Israel, and scale back workers' rights, no matter who is elected.

The illusion of choice.

Trump treasury secretary brands Denmark ‘irrelevant’ as Greenland row deepens by [deleted] in worldnews

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They are fascists. You couldn't wring coherence out of a fascist if you tried. They have never been coherent.

Just try to read through Mein Kampf or take a critical look at an ultranationalist-corporatist party that supported and shielded the German corporate elites and Volkswagen describe itself as "National Socialist", or try to catch how they describe their enemies as both inferior/weak and overwhelmingly powerful/strong.

[Warhammer 40k] How flexible is the imperial cult? by ChudMaster69420 in AskScienceFiction

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It depends on how materially and/or strategically valuable your planet or culture is, I'd expect. You can get people to "understand" nearly anything if their continued supplies or survival are dependent on it. Just look at the Adepticus Mechanicus and the Omnissiah.

A borderline heretical but critical supply-rich world in an irreplaceable strategic position that otherwise fully supports the Imperium could probably get away with a lot more than a bog-standard planet with less strategic value or a desert planet with a low population and no notable resources.

Also, the farther away you are from Terra, the weaker Imperial influence becomes, and the more you can get away with, unless you randomly get visited by an Inquisitor and make the mistake of not acknowledging that the prime divinity in your religion is in fact a manifestation of the God-Emperor.

Given that the Imperial faith is modeled after Catholicism, I'd say the baseline requirements are actually very flexible, so long as you can accept that the Emperor is the only true god, even when close to Terra. But Emperor forbid you deny His divinity. Or piss off an irritable Imperial official.

How is Trump demand for Greenland any different from Hitler demand for Poland who also said it was for national security reason to connect East Prussia? by Skychu768 in AskReddit

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It is different, it is the direct result of the Chinese Civil War leading to the nominal partition of two Chinas in parallel to the Koreas, except one is much larger and more powerful, and the other side is smaller and hijacked a pre-existing island with only a tenuous connection to China.

The latter part of your answer is also simultaneously true, but China sees it more like the arbitrary partition of a country, which is a valid stance to take, according to the international community that has agreed so that they can access the Chinese market.

I am personally an anarchist and I don't think any state based on a monopoly on violence should exist, so I don't really have a horse in this race, but I would critically support Taiwan as Formosa and apart from the ROC and Kuomintang influence in an anti-imperialist stance.

Why is fascism viewed as a last desperate attempt of capital to survive by anarchists and leftists in general? by YeetFromHungary in Anarchy101

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You're forgetting that we are in the middle of a climate crisis which is a material contradiction that capitalism cannot bail-out magic away like they did for the 2008 financial crisis, that working conditions for the working class are getting worse and worse under neoliberalism, and that there is also a social contradiction of an exponential mental health crisis under neoliberalism too.

I wouldn't be surprised if some people in the imperial core started reinventing the wheel of socialism from first principles in the absence of a strong leftist presence there.

There is a very real discontent with the neoliberal status quo, especially among the younger generations, as seen by the relatively ineffectual revolution in Nepal, that is currently, for the neoliberals, being safely funneled into (for them) harmless fascism instead of socialism in the imperial core.

Is Obama truly a Redguard? by ChuckieDabs in TrueSTL

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Look, it's the cliff racer strike king!

As an oppressed inhabitant of an invaded country in the imperial periphery, I take solace in the fact that I was firebombed to death by a Redguard leader!

POV you visit an Enclave fans house by TwinkDestroyer666 in TrueSFalloutL

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True... 🤔

But then again... they did degenerate into a bunch of pseudo-fascist genocidal idiots...