A Reddit post called the picture "red fash". I admit that it is controversial, since one may read it as mocking peaceful people who are not muscular, but on the other hand I think it is worthwhile to promote physical strength equally with mental strength and class consciousness. I bet that Specnaz, the special forces of USSR, were not formed from physically weak people. Maybe the picture is seen as a struggle between ideas of the "new left" and AES. What are your thoughts?

  • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    tl;dr, this image is just reactionary sexist and masculinist garbage.

    as far as a know, one of the meanings of red fascism is from alexander dugin, in a late 90's text he wrote proposing that russia become fascist because communism and liberalism failed russia, so the third option is that, fascism with the "red color", obviously trying to convince former members of cpsu. nowadays he learned that fascism is a nono word and came up with the fourth political theory, which is the same fascist shit, but with slippery vocabulary.

    the fpt crowd sometimes even refer to themselves as being left and socialists, but bellow that there is chauvinism, misogyny, racism, lgbtphobia and whatnot very similar to patsocs and vaushers, including vocabulary like using the word soy. heck sometimes they even claim experiences like soviet union but devoided of material analysis of what they were building and appealing to idealistic and reactionary concepts, which fit this meme properly, like the "su were strong because because of they manliness, didn't dwelled in to gay shit, they were based".

    the slippery part is they may deflect certain accusations by claiming it was just physical preparedness. note that sexuality and gender has nothing to do with fitness, you can be lgbt and athletic and being cis straight and have poor conditioning.

    and last point is that people on the left picture might not even be socialist, could well be just progressive libs, corroborating even further to shit scarecrow tactic.

    another meaning of red fash comes from anarchists, because they were historically persecuted by communists. and the last one is some horseshoe bullshit that commies and fash are the same, violent people.