Anarcho-Bolshevik
‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024
‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970
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13·1 day agoI would argue that calling Imperial America fascist is an exaggeration, but that hardly makes it less worthy of our opposition. In Fascist Italy, there was a systematic crackdown on the trade unions, a gradual elimination of opposition parties (starting with socialist ones, which were to be smashed rather than absorbed), a gradual deprecation of the pseudodemocracy, and the ruling class promoted a predominantly petty bourgeois and violently anticommunist movement (Fascism) into an institutional power without even pretending to consult the masses. Imperial America’s suppression of the lower classes has not become that intense (at least not yet).
Michael Parenti laid down a good explanation of Fascism, and he derived much of his theory from Daniel Guerin’s excellent Fascism and Big Business. If you want to study Fascism seriously, that is the book that you want to start out with.
Briefer, communist explanations for Fascism include Clara Zetkin’s The Struggle Against Fascism and Leon Trotsky’s pamplet Fascism: What it is and how to fight it. (I know that you’ll all roll your eyes at me for recommending one of Trotsky’s works—and I do agree that this one is imperfect, to put it succinctly—but I doubt that you’ll strongly disagree with his summary of Fascism either.) For a moderner explanation, I recommend Bes D. Marx’s ‘Why Did Mussolini Move From Marxism To Fascism?’
My own summary is that Fascism was the militant and predominantly petty bourgeois movement that the haute‐bourgeoisie promoted to institutional power to preserve and strengthen capitalism at all costs.
“Fascism is Imperialism/Colonialism turned inward.” hit the mark pretty well
10·1 day agoDon’t worry; when something like this happens, antisocialists always have a back‐up plan.
8·2 days agoI hear ya. I was depressed when I saw the news that almost all of Gaza is totally and completely uninhabitable, but then I remembered that among the phenomena that the Palestinians inherited from their Jewish ancestors was their Maccabean spirit: the same determination that kept Jews alive throughout the Polish–Cossack War, the White Army’s oppression, the Shoah, and elsewhat. That’s how their Palestinian kin survived all the Crusades… soon to include this one.
Maybe my optimism feels inappropriate for the serious situation, but I can’t let the Herzlians win by acting pessimistic and giving up. I would never have donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or shared a clip of Palestinian youths eating if I thought that the Herzlians were going to reach their goals anyway.
2·2 days agoYasamin Jameh (the author) almost mentioned that work of pseudohistory when she wrote ‘now widely‐debunked myth was that homosexuals themselves were behind the rise of the Nazi movement’. Unlike Lively, Jameh discusses the matter of homosexual fascists in good faith and actually attempts to explain why some gay men sided with their oppressors.
I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by the feedback that this thread has received. I was thinking that some would have been irritated to see this subject since it was an embarrassing time in LGBT+ history, but discomforting others wasn’t my goal. Proletarians, and perhaps especially LGBT+ ones, should beware of queer folks who either join or try to win over their oppressors. That doesn’t mean that heterosexism or cissexism against them is acceptable, but they don’t deserve unconditional support either.
Whatever. China’s economy is by far the worst in the world and their ‘country’ going to collapse extremely soon. In fact, it’s going to collapse so soon that it will be on the exact same microsecond that Russia loses the war. That is how soon it’s going to collapse. All Israel has to do is defeat Hamas tomorrow, and it’s all over for Xi and Putin.
8·3 days agoWhat did Einstein […] say about insanity again?
31·4 days agoWell, apart from the child labour, kidnapping, forced sterilizations, lethal heterosexism and cissexism, famines, superexploitation of the proletariat, and extermination of approximately fifty million lives (mainly Europeans, but also some Afrasians, through methods such as reprisals, colonisation, &c.), yeah, the German Fascists were innocent. After all, none of those millions of victims was a white cishet capitalist man, and all anticommunists know that nobody else counts as human, so who cares?
What about the millions of Palestinians who are disinterested in Trump? Aren’t their opinions more important than those of some confused kid from Dearborn?
7·5 days agoMy appreciation for the Jewish community is what inspires me to carry out this work.
Corporate America could have been an Axis power with how much it supported the Fascists, and the neutrality between Berlin and Moscow was nothing compared to the alliance between Europe’s Fascist empires.
1·6 days agoI heard a rumour that a settler wanted to set up a statue of Adolf Schicklgruber there because of his régime’s contributions to Zionism. I don’t know if anybody seriously suggested that, but it does sound plausible.
An antisocialist compared me to a Holocaust denier because I argued that antisocialists massacred millions of people.