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  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The duality of man
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    14 days ago

    You don’t understand how Democratic politicians that have directly funded trump and normalized right-wing positions (immigration is a great example of such) are far more responsible for Trump winning the election than online commenters who criticize the Democratic Party due to it’s proximity to the Republican Party?

    Capitalists are responsible for the rise of fascism. Both parties are beholden to the interests of their capital donors, they simply play different roles to uphold that interest.

    Progressives who criticize the Democratic party for failing to represent their constituents, who are supposed to be working class Americans, not billionaire donors, are the ones applying pressure on the Democratic party to actually fight against fascism instead of against progressive candidates and policies. The Democratic Establishment will not change without overwhelming pressure from working class Americans

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it
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    19 days ago

    The Gaza Ghetto Uprising happened for the same reason as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Palestinians are fighting for their sovereignty, freedom from Apartheid, and freedom from extermination.

    It was encouraged? No. It’s entirely due to the material conditions of the military blockade and apartheid. Did Russia do what it could to take advantage of the situation after it happens in regards to Ukraine? Sure, but that’s entirely different from acting as if Oct 7th happened because ‘Russia encouraged it.’ That’s as ridiculous as saying another nation ‘encouraged’ the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

    Russia is also capitalist and imperialist

    Yeah, no shit. They still don’t have control over what happens in Israel Palestine. They don’t have hegemonic control over BRICS either. They do Israel type shit where they can, which is unfortunately Ukraine. If Russia tries to occupy Ukraine like Israel has done with Palestine, a Ukrainian uprising would be just as inevitable as in Warsaw and Gaza.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it
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    19 days ago

    Your point about the Israeli-US genocide of Gaza makes no sense. The US and Israel are the belligerents. Israel’s foothold in the region is critical to US foreign policy as it has for decades, plus the decades of military tech development against the occupied civilian population. Israel’s aim is the eradication of the native populations and development of Greater Israel. The US holds all the cards when it comes to this conflict.

    Russia is not anti-israel, hell Russian is the 3rd most spoken language in Israel, behind only Hebrew and English. China isn’t even anti-israel. They still trade a significant amount instead of imposing divestments and sanctions like every nation should be at this point.

    Climate change is of no consequence to Capitalists, who’s only interests are profit accumulation. Oil companies will continue to prioritize those profits over all else. That is regardless of country.

    AI hype is absolutely a huge obsession of silicon valley tech CEOs and US capitalists. Similar to oil, their only interests are profit and hyper exploitation regardless of the human cost.

    In all cases it goes back to capitalism and imperialism are the root causes of these problems. BRICS has plenty of capitalist countries in it too. Their aim to break US hegemony into multi polarity is independent of that reality.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.
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    1 month ago
    Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti - Ch 1

    In Germany, a similar pattern of complicity between fascists and capitalists emerged. German workers and farm laborers had won the right to unionize, the eight-hour day, and unemployment insurance. But to revive profit levels, heavy industry and big finance wanted wage cuts for their workers and massive state subsidies and tax cuts for themselves.

    During the 1920s, the Nazi Sturmabteilung or SA, the brown-shirted storm troopers, subsidized by business, were used mostly as an antilabor paramilitary force whose function was to terrorize workers and farm laborers. By 1930, most of the tycoons had concluded that the Weimar Republic no longer served their needs and was too accommodating to the working class. They greatly increased their subsidies to Hitler, propelling the Nazi party onto the national stage. Business tycoons supplied the Nazis with generous funds for fleets of motor cars and loudspeakers to saturate the cities and villages of Germany, along with funds for Nazi party organizations, youth groups, and paramilitary forces. In the July 1932 campaign, Hitler had sufficient funds to fly to fifty cities in the last two weeks alone.

    In that same campaign the Nazis received 37.3 percent of the vote, the highest they ever won in a democratic national election. They never had a majority of the people on their side. To the extent that they had any kind of reliable base, it generally was among the more affluent members of society. In addition, elements of the petty bourgeoisie and many lumpenproletariats served as strong-arm party thugs, organized into the SA storm troopers. But the great majority of the organized working class supported the Communists or Social Democrats to the very end.

    In the December 1932 election, three candidates ran for president: the conservative incumbent Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the Nazi candidate Adolph Hitler, and the Communist party candidate Ernst Thaelmann. In his campaign, Thaelmann argued that a vote for Hindenburg amounted to a vote for Hitler and that Hitler would lead Germany into war. The bourgeois press, including the Social Democrats, denounced this view as “Moscow inspired.” Hindenburg was re-elected while the Nazis dropped approximately two million votes in the Reichstag election as compared to their peak of over 13.7 million.

    True to form, the Social Democrat leaders refused the Communist party’s proposal to form an eleventh-hour coalition against Nazism. As in many other countries past and present, so in Germany, the Social Democrats would sooner ally themselves with the reactionary Right than make common cause with the Reds.3 Meanwhile a number of right-wing parties coalesced behind the Nazis and in January 1933, just weeks after the election, Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor.

    Upon assuming state power, Hitler and his Nazis pursued a politico-economic agenda not unlike Mussolini’s. They crushed organized labor and eradicated all elections, opposition parties, and independent publications. Hundreds of thousands of opponents were imprisoned, tortured, or murdered. In Germany as in Italy, the communists endured the severest political repression of all groups.

    Here were two peoples, the Italians and Germans, with different histories, cultures, and languages, and supposedly different temperaments, who ended up with the same repressive solutions because of the compelling similarities of economic power and class conflict that prevailed in their respective countries. In such diverse countries as Lithuania, Croatia, Rumania, Hungary, and Spain, a similar fascist pattern emerged to do its utmost to save big capital from the impositions of democracy.4

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