https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory/status/1712180772151710190

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    1 year ago

    A reactionary is someone who believes in essentialism: that people are identified and wholly defined by a static core character of what they are, that all their behavior is all dictated by this, that the dynamics of humanity are fixed and inevitably fated to unravel in a predictable fashion.

    This is the implication here:

    An Israeli votes like an Israeli and a Palestinian like a Palestinian, because everyone in the category is the same. Palestinians have higher birth rates than Israelis because this is an inherent parameter of people in each group. The interests of one person are the interests of the ethnic group as a whole.

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      He spent a lot of time talking about Inherent Japanese Characteristics in his "Supernova in the East" series

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        1 year ago

        I don't think we need to rigorously subject people to professing M-L thought (I'm not even a Marxist myself), but we absolutely do need a rectification where we make sure that everyone in the revolutionary entity has a deeply constructivist philosophy.

      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        God I hate people like this.

        cultures and behavior have nothing to do with material conditions, those are determined by blood, which is why every physically fit, semi-wealthy Japanese man joins the JSDF and follows Bushido smuglord