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What you're saying now is what you would be saying in 1933.
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Better, but that gives away too much to the great man theory of history.
Forget about the Bolsheviks for a moment, and try the abstract: there's a communist party or a Platformist org in the US right now with the support of 1/40 working people. What are they doing?
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Stupid and pointless response. Try again.
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Who is Ruth Hill? Does she have "form" in this regard?
Overseas, we can see that anti-trans "drumbeats" are started by a small group of obsessives who support each other in the media and the public service and whose names crop up over and over again
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We're in a situation where parts of the Government have been *trying* to float a trans-rights rollback but civil society hasn't been interested.
The spirit of Georgina Beyer watches over us.
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In east Germany 1989, the ruling class had complete control over the *official* information environment. But people could semi-illegaly watch west German media to get a different view. Why did they choose to? Why do people voluntarily watch Fox News? Are there different answers?
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Because the USSR was the most feared continent on the globe and could fuck up the US's shit. That's all there is to it.
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"poorly planned action for the sake of action" has gotten results for those guys, while we're impotent
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go Nigel go!
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Nah, it was always fascist nonsense. It was literally designed to cook enthusiastic young people's brains and turn them to "traditionalism", and one of the authors later became an opern fascist operative en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mor...
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Ah, it's one of those "all Ukranians are Nazis and therefore deserving of death, as opposed to American Nazis, who are confused working class comrades who just need Lenin read to them"
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How did the default "social media voice of the radical Left" become "the most inhuman form of Stalinism/Maoism combined with the seething hatred and gleeful abuse of a 4chan shitposter"?
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It is precisely the opposite, and Leon goddamn Trotsky called this nonsense out at the time
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The problem with modern Communists is that most of them are Stalinists and haven't read Leon Trotsky, who (a) correctly identified the downwardly-mobile middle class as the base of fascism; (b) called out the German Communists for refusing to cooperate with the Social Democrats and letting Hitler in
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"Given power by the social democrats"
Y'all teenage fuckin' commies need to read Trotsky
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The vulgar materialist assertion that "economic security = pro-social, economic insecurity = Nazi" can't explain Trotsky's observation from the 30s that the base of fascism is the downwardly mobile middle class. It's RELATIVELY status. And Free Health And Education (tm) goes to Blacks/queers, too
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Begging Keir motherfucking Starmer to read this
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The Trump admin plainly believes that hegemony based on consent is inferior to just bullying people and daring them to fight back
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I am absolutely amazed to see Winston Peters, our decrepit, transphobic, anti-woke Foreign Minister, going out to front this decision. In this country the Israel lobby is utterly hand-in-glove with the transphobes.
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"Sometimes peace is just another word for surrender" - @straczynski.bsky.social , _Babylon 5_ season 2 finale
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It explains so much about the current era if you think about the mainstream Dems of today as like the Whigs/Northern Dems of the 1850s: they don't want slavery to spread, but they're terrified of a war so they're doing everything they can to placate the increasingly radicalised slavers
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A variation on this take bsky.app/profile/chat...
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They'll give David Cumin, Juliet Moses and that failed standup comedian guy even more money to dig up dirt on Leftist writers
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none taken :) I'm partly an autodidact myself *BUT* I also have formal training in other spheres so I can see the difference
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*glances at my bio*
*shifts uncomfortably*
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Of course not. The only point I'm making is that, unlike say Alexander Stephenson, he had enough consciousness of the contradiction with the Revolution's ideology to avoid going out there saying slavery is awesome, everyone should have slaves
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Vader is the Pete Hegseth of the Galactic Empire.
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I love that "Kenobi? Right here on the Death Star? Lol you've been working too hard, bro" line
After Tarkin dies there's no-one to, as Leia put it, "hold Vader's leash"
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That's the guy who yells IT'S A TRAP thirty seconds after the trap is sprung, right?
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The other parallel to that era is the centre saying "no, we don't want war, we have to do a deal with the slavers". Which made the war worse when it inevitably came.
When one side in a class struggle/culture war radicalises to the point of "we're chosen by God", there will be war
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If the media all agree on a narrative and insist on it in the face of material reality, it becomes "politically true", at least for low-info voters far away from the action