https://unofficialbird.com/InfraHaz/status/1640047019845644289#m

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lol trying to do a 21st century version of "rejected from art school", as if trying to mirror Hitler's Wikipedia bio is how you bring about the conditions for fascism. I know that we all know this person in no kind of Marxist, but this is a sterling example. "X thing happened, so person becomes bitter and swears revenge on entire abstract concept, goes on to start world war" is not analysis, it's the writing process for a B-teir capeshit villain. It's babbling liberal idealism distilled into it's purest form and proof that Alan Moore was right.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      as if trying to mirror Hitler’s Wikipedia bio is how you bring about the conditions for fascism

      Fixating on art school and skipping straight over his time in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry is the most normal-brained take on Great Man Theory, too. We're brushing right up against the "Hitler Liked Dogs" critique.

      It’s babbling liberal idealism distilled into it’s purest form and proof that Alan Moore was right.

      Never bet against the Translucia Baboon.

      • Dull_Juice [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, it's wild how it's never really talked about. Reading "Who Financed Hitler" now and the book had moments were the author gleefully both sides things between the different nationalist groups and the Marxists. But he spends the entire introduction talking about the places where in Hitler's life where he comes across all these ideas. He quickly moves past the art school stuff because it's really not that important.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I often think whether the fixation on Hitler’s failed art career was deliberately pushed in our culture so people don’t think about the conditions that actually led him to power. I remember being like 10 and everyone was making jokes about that already

    • baguettePants [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Somehow I doubt there were such subtle connotations involved in creating that post.