I always think about the way reddit wound up vs. Aaron Swartz's politics. Kinda goes to show you that if you aren't aggressively anti-fascist or aggressively using 'left-libertarianism' to pipeline people away from fascism then the fash just take over. Put another way, absent intersectional class consciousness any extremely online space is going to wind up full of fash.
I always think about the way reddit wound up vs. Aaron Swartz's politics. Kinda goes to show you that if you aren't aggressively anti-fascist or aggressively using 'left-libertarianism' to pipeline people away from fascism then the fash just take over. Put another way, absent intersectional class consciousness any extremely online space is going to wind up full of fash.