I am an anarchist as well. In my opinion, to be a consistent anarchist, you need to STOP BUYING US PROPAGANDA. This means not saying bullshit like "fascist Xi/Castro/Kim."
New idea, we have to have automod saying “define fascism” after each mention of the word. There are like ten definitions flowing around people’s head and it causes confusion.
Like primarily for me it’s state/petit bougie/lumpen alliance to crush workers movement, for somebody else it’s police state, for others it’s racist project, for others again it’s any authoritarian state. :shrug-outta-hecks: some of these would fit, while other won’t, but they all appeal to imagery of nazism, which is slightly different again
I mean fascism is an actual ideology, a shitty one, but it has consistent trends and tropes. Namely state sponsored racism, extreme privatization of industry, as well as heavy use of military to solve problems (such as labor strikes) and an imperialist desire, to name a few.
You'll find all of those things in a fascist state as part of the base line of its laws.
Stuff like authoritarianism is so vague, which is on purpose, and can be applied to literally any form of government.
because god forbid we admit that a socialist country might do bad things.
The person who acts like this does not really exist on this website. There exist people who act like this, but not really here. The overwhelming majority of people here will, if a socialist country does something bad, go "ok that sucks." The difference between a liberal and a leftist is that a liberal immediately follows that thought with, "Therefore we should commit genocide."
I am an anarchist as well. In my opinion, to be a consistent anarchist, you need to STOP BUYING US PROPAGANDA. This means not saying bullshit like "fascist Xi/Castro/Kim."
New idea, we have to have automod saying “define fascism” after each mention of the word. There are like ten definitions flowing around people’s head and it causes confusion.
Like primarily for me it’s state/petit bougie/lumpen alliance to crush workers movement, for somebody else it’s police state, for others it’s racist project, for others again it’s any authoritarian state. :shrug-outta-hecks: some of these would fit, while other won’t, but they all appeal to imagery of nazism, which is slightly different again
I mean fascism is an actual ideology, a shitty one, but it has consistent trends and tropes. Namely state sponsored racism, extreme privatization of industry, as well as heavy use of military to solve problems (such as labor strikes) and an imperialist desire, to name a few.
You'll find all of those things in a fascist state as part of the base line of its laws.
Stuff like authoritarianism is so vague, which is on purpose, and can be applied to literally any form of government.
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The person who acts like this does not really exist on this website. There exist people who act like this, but not really here. The overwhelming majority of people here will, if a socialist country does something bad, go "ok that sucks." The difference between a liberal and a leftist is that a liberal immediately follows that thought with, "Therefore we should commit genocide."