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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So that makes them entirely the US's fault? Capitalists and communists in many countries helped cause their rise to power.

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

      Capitalists and communists in many countries helped cause their rise to power.

      You're just saying that because "both sides" feels true to you. It's not, though. Communists in Germany were the bitterest opponents of the Nazis, before the latter even had a strong party formation. And as the first line of the poem goes, Communists were the first ones "they" came for (although this is usually omitted in liberal retellings".

      If you've ever heard of Antonio Gramsci you know that imprisoning or killing communists was the first order of business under Mussolini.

      You can name any country that went fascist, and we can point out where the capitalists were easing it along and the communists were fighting it tooth and nail.

    • Facky [he/him,comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      So that makes them entirely the US's fault?

      Entirely? No. But they do bear a lot of the burden.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Probably the Italians and Germans were a bit involved too, obviously ww2 is not entirely the fault of America but they were some giant fucking dominoes that fell.