• Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I remember seeing a nazi propaganda poster that opposed Marxism on the bizarre grounds that it was the "guardian angel of capitalism". Meanwhile they privatized everything when they came to power. What a fucking joke. :youre-awful:

      From Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti:

      Fascist doctrine stresses monistic values: Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer (one people, one rule, one leader). The people are no longer to be concerned with class divisions but must see themselves as part of a harmonious whole, rich and poor as one, a view that supports the economic status quo by cloaking the ongoing system of class exploitation. This is in contrast to a left agenda that advocates the articulation of popular demands and a sharpened awareness of social injustice and class struggle. This monism is buttressed by atavistic appeals to the mythical roots of the people. For Mussolini, it was the grandeur that was Rome; for Hitler, the ancient Volk. A play written by a pro-Nazi, Hans Jorst, entitled Schlageter and performed widely throughout Germany soon after the Nazis seized power (Hitler attended the opening night in Berlin) pits Volk mysticism against class politics.The enthusiastic August is talking to his father, Schneider:

      August: You won't believe it, Papa but .. . the young people don't pay much attention to these old slogans anymore . . . the class struggle is dying out.

      Schneider: So, and what do you have then?

      August: The Volk community.

      Schneider: And that's a slogan?

      August: No, it's an experience!

      Schneider: My God, our class struggle, our strikes, they weren't an experience, eh? Socialism, the International, were they fantasies maybe?

      August: They were necessary, but . . . they are historical experiences.

      Schneider: So, and the future therefore will have your Volk commu­nity. Tell me how do you actually envision it? Poor, rich, healthy, upper, lower, all this ceases with you, eh? . . .

      August: Look, Papa, upper, lower, poor, rich, that always exists. It is only the importance one places on that question that's decisive. To us life is not chopped up into working hours and furnished with price charts. Rather, we believe in human existence as a whole. None of us regards making money as the most impor­tant thing; we want to serve. The individual is a corpuscle in the bloodstream of his people.

      The son's comments are revealing: "the class struggle is dying out." Papa's concern about the abuses of class power and class injus­tice is facilely dismissed as just a frame of mind with no objective reality. It is even falsely equated with a crass concern for money.

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Well, they might have actually got what they deserved, at least if they were in the eastern part of Germany. :stalin-gun-1::pavlichenko:

      • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I remember seeing a nazi propaganda poster that opposed Marxism on the bizarre grounds that it was the “guardian angel of capitalism”.

        To be fair, the guardian here is labeled with an SPD hat, and boy howdy when rubber hit the road they chose capitalism

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    There's a lot to unpack before you even get to the tweet. What do the emojis mean, what's the significance of 2036, and what is up with the profile pic? This person just radiates being extremely online.

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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    socialism is the mode of production where you are a capitalist accruing profit by extracting the surplus value of your workers :galaxy-brain:

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    “Treat these terms scientifically”….anyway Hitler was socialist

    This is what happens when you don’t read theory, or even a high school level history book

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wow, I can't believe I posted a real banger:fedposting:

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don’t know what a patsoc is, but I’m 90% sure it’s dumb and bad.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      patsocs are natsocs

      "patriotic socialists" who think socialists would win if they were "socially conservative, fiscally socialist," and tried to appeal to the bigoted majority by embracing the pageantry of patriotism, nationalism, cishet and white chauvinism, etc.

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The mind of a patsoc is a curious thing

    Make one man weep, make another man sing

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Why does he have an ape emoji? Please tell me it's not some Wall Street Bets thing.