• redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        The question is, did the Nazis know they would fail and pick that title just to troll us?

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          8 months ago

          They wanted to trick the German people into thinking that they would help them. Since the socialists actually cared about the people.

          Excellent marketing and PR.

          Same reason why Pol Pot was a MLM. Excellent optics that buy you support to then accomplish your real goals.

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              8 months ago

              He was not. But he called himself one, that’s the point I was making.

              We all know his positions were different, but his optics were focused around using Maoism to his personal advantage.

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                8 months ago

                A Maoist, not a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. No one really called themselves an MLM til the 80s, when the PCP/Shining Path officially “synthesized” it.

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                  True, but wouldn’t a Maoist by extension be a Marxist-Leninist? MLM certainly had its connotations because of groups like the shining path, but I meant that more in the way that he used legends from Marxist-Leninism, and Maoism to draw support.

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      8 months ago

      Because colonization would be more difficult if the colonizers felt guilty about their atrocities. Thus, they have to blame everybody but themselves (irrespective of how lazy that is), which they have always done:

      [W]e shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us.

      And that we have said this to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition.

      Requerimiento, 1510

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      And then he writes a whole long-ass argument based on this new definition of antisemitism. They even call it the “new” antisemitism.

      But for real, this is an establishment media blitz trying to officially define antisemitism as anti-zionism. It’s not meant to make sense in the previous definitional framework.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know, sometimes I wish I could use my skills and powers for evil and live a cushy life funded by the infinite coffers of the US MIC and State Department.

      Then I remember I have a conscious and basic human morality.

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      I mean, the thing is, anti-imperialism and anti-settler colonialism is what the author, like most Zionists, is afraid of…

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      The interesting thing is that everyone has heard of Auschwitz and the west impliedly takes credit for it. And while it wasn’t the only example, the reason we probably don’t hear about some of the others is because the yanks don’t want people learning what they did when they actually did the ‘liberating’.

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    reminder:

    Anti-Semitism

    January 12, 1931

    Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States

    In answer to your inquiry :

    National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

    Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.

    In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

    J. Stalin January 12, 1931

    First published in the newspaper Pravda, No. 329, November 30, 1936

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      When you are given a place of authority with complete control over what is published and no real fourm for critique, you can say whatever you want and a majority will believe you .

      But.

      The more we understand bourgeois media and institutions the more we can use the tools as well. Unless you belong to some sect who believes in spontaneous communism. If you do then feel free to carry on as you were.

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    9 months ago

    We are idealists that refuse to understand there is a difference between Jewish people as a whole and the modern state of Israel.

    These awful Marxists look at the material reality of the bombed hospitals and wonton destruction of civilian infrastructure, but they need to understand something more important than the real life destruction of human life.

    These truths are:

    Antisemitism = bad

    Jews = Israel

    Antisemitism = being against Jews

    therefore being against Israel = antisemitism

    Thus, when Marxists oppose Israel’s bombings = antisemitism

    If you state the minor detail that not all Jewish people are not supportive of all of the actions of the state of Israel, we’ll dismiss it as irrelevant. Because our idealized concepts are more important than the consequences of following through on those actions.