Anti-fa are fascists.
And you support fascists...you should know.
Anti-fa are fascists.
Irrespective of the pure dumbness of that tweet, do conservatives actually think that if you say “you know Nazism is actually a branch of left-leaning political ideology” that it becomes true? Have they ever read a book?
You are ignorant on the subject. Fascism derives from socialism and is a branch of socialism. Read Mussolini, the socialist who founded Fascism.
Anti-fa are fascists.
The notion that the Nazis were modern-day left-wingers is one of the great sacred cows of conservatives. You see posts on facebook or twitter or other social media about it on a regular basis. The fact that the great majority of the Nazi platform has far more in common with modern-day reactionary right-wing white nationalist, tribal, xenophobic movements is irrelevant to them. They'll argue until they're blue in the face about it - "it's got socialist right there in the name, see?"
Your problem is that apparently you get your information from facebook, twitter, and other social media, which are completely irrelevant for the issue of the connection between socialism and Fascism. Indeed, they are irrelevant for just about any serious subject. Read the sources of Fascism and socialism, not facebook and other social media.
Your problem is that apparently you get your information from facebook, twitter, and other social media, which are completely irrelevant for the issue of the connection between socialism and Fascism. Indeed, they are irrelevant for just about any serious subject. Read the sources of Fascism and socialism, not facebook and other social media.
The fact that a Pub can say this without his head exploding makes me question my belief in a benevolent higher power.
Your problem is that apparently you get your information from facebook, twitter, and other social media, which are completely irrelevant for the issue of the connection between socialism and Fascism. Indeed, they are irrelevant for just about any serious subject. Read the sources of Fascism and socialism, not facebook and other social media.
Horseshoe theory. There isn't that much difference between extreme left wing and extreme right wing policy. Both are authoritarian in nature.
Anti-fa are fascists.
This is such facile horseshit.
Let's examine the original Horseshoe Theory going back to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Jean-Pierre Faye (and honestly ignore anything sailor ever writes, because of course there's a vital distinction between the Soviets and the Nazis). Yes, both Communists and Fascists in the 30s were critical of collapsing and corrupt imperial economies of the West. But Stalin joined Hitler in invading Poland not because he was fascist, but because he was an opportunist, and because he didn't hate anti-Semites or shirk atrocity.
What the theory ignores is all the manifold examples of centrists caving to or compromising with or even actively working with fascists. Chamberlain's caving to fascism, for example. More recently, Chait supported Trump and Douthat supported Le Pen (both ostensibly because they would harm their respective center right parties and shame them into cleaning up their acts). Manchin and Murkowski confirmed Sessions.
I don't think the fishhook theory that puts centrists next to the far right works perfect either, though. Fascism itself is rooted in the far right, but racism, nationalism, and authoritarianism appeal across the political spectrum. Actual Nazis hate leftists as much as they hate Jews, all their key text rests in a Marxist-Jewish conspiracy. Hitler was legitimized in Germany largely because business interests enjoyed Nazi anti-communist theory.
Crucially, and where it's so fucking frustrating talking to centrist do-nothings on this board, when you criticize leftists (via anti-PC or anti-academy or anti-protest or anti-speech rhetoric), it's fascists who benefit. Looking at the most polarized eras in politics, the Great Middle are more content finger pointing than choosing the obvious side, and fascists win because of it.
Leftist/Marxist's ideology and authoritarian leaders resulted in far higher death count in the 20th century than fascism. To be clear fuck fascism, but Marxism was been far more detrimental in the 20th century.
Yep, all fascism has tried to do was genocide....their goal was to do so worldwide...you're right they weren't that bad...
Leftist/Marxist's ideology and authoritarian leaders resulted in far higher death count in the 20th century than fascism. To be clear fuck fascism, but Marxism was been far more detrimental in the 20th century.
with their appalling record in the 20th, let's hope the socialists don't get another chance in the 21st century