AngelusNovus [none/use name] to Main • 4 years agoGlenn Greenwald read literally any Marxist theory challengeimagemessage-square103 fedilinkarrow-up1179
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minus-squareMoralisticCommunist [he/him]hexbear19·4 years agoGlenn Greenwald: "Hitler was a socialist, after all he was the leader of the National SOCIALIST party so he must have been progressive!" link
minus-squareCaramelArks [none/use name]hexbear15·4 years agoExactly this, the right co-opting a word. I'd have given Glenn the benefit of the doubt in that he simply meant the word "populist", but there's no defense for completely being tone-deaf in understanding contemporary political terms like socialism. link
minus-squarecilantrofellow [any]hexbear4·edit-24 years agoIn no way do you confuse populism and socialism as an American link
Glenn Greenwald: "Hitler was a socialist, after all he was the leader of the National SOCIALIST party so he must have been progressive!"
Exactly this, the right co-opting a word. I'd have given Glenn the benefit of the doubt in that he simply meant the word "populist", but there's no defense for completely being tone-deaf in understanding contemporary political terms like socialism.
In no way do you confuse populism and socialism as an American