Not really replace, but obviously implies it

It shouldn’t be news but it’s really funny how Marxism is discredited despite his work closely analyzing production and economy, but fascists just agree with vibes because Hitler waved his hands a lot and screamed “THE JEWS!!!”

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    This is largely how fascism works. Just take the talking points of the left and blame the people you hate. You see this with Mussolini too (Of course, he was a communist when he was young.). Fascism is purly taking popular leftist notions and combining it with whatever existing brain worms works best. They then use this cudgel to commit genocide and beat down the working class.

  • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    He also considered himself a centrist. Wonder how come the people who take him for his word at face value when he calls himself a socialist don’t talk about this

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      • huf [he/him]
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        yeah, but they still made him and his pals sit on the very right side of the parliament...

        he was to the right of all the other centrists, according to those very centrists.

        of course this wont stop the nazi=communist brainrot, sadly.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I wonder what he considered to the right of him. Something he'd have no doubt encouraging, but you know

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    Try reading Mein Kampf if you want and if you hate yourself. It reads exactly like a modern screed against wokeness. Hitler complains about free speech on college campuses, about how minorities like Jews have special treatment, about how times have changed and you can't be a proud German anymore. He then very clearly says he should be in charge of Germany so he can invade the USSR and destroy Marxism.

    When I first read it I felt like I fell into a time vortex or something. It's eerie. You could replace Marxists/Bolshevik with Woke/SJW and it would read the same.

    • constellation [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      complains about free speech on college campuses

      uh...the Nazis weren't exactly pro-free speech. They were quite firmly anti-gun, too.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        The Nazis were fascist slime who would say anything because they had no coherent beliefs other than genocide. The gun control thing is a myth by the way. Gun ownership among white Germans increased after 1933. They were against Jews and leftists possessing guns.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    The right'll bang together enough brain cells to try and co-opt literally any set of ideas if you give 'em time.

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Welll that is the entire premise of Fascism: take people's legitimate complaints about capitalism and redirect them at a scapegoat minority group.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    as the saying goes, antisemitism is the socialism of fools

  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if you could pull it off the other way around.