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"The #GOP has moved so far to the right that it’s ideologically aligned with Turkey and #Russia. The #Trump administration’s refusal to criticize #Putin may well owe to its hopes to emulate him, much as Putin’s rehabilitation of #Stalin’s legacy tracked with policies that duplicated the Soviet dictator’s. And #Musk has expressed admiration for #Xi Jinping’s China, a repressive one-party state where he has business interests."

#democracy
#authoritarianism

theatlantic.com/international/

The Atlantic · How America Can Avoid Becoming RussiaBy Garry Kasparov

Why are tankies so blind to what they’re doing? How can they worship dictators like the Kim dynasty, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Castro, Maduro, and vanguards like the CPSU?

It doesn’t make sense, if you want the working class to be free, why are you idolizing authoritarian rulers?

What the hell is happening here? This blind devotion and cult-like behavior is downright insane.

Replied to Nonilex

…language is very important. When the state carries out #criminal #terror against its own people, it calls them “criminals” or “terrorists.” During the 1930s, this was the normal practice. Looking back, we refer to #Stalin’s “Great Terror,” but at the time it was the Stalinists who controlled the language. Today in Berlin stands an important museum called "Topography of Terror"; during the era it documents, it was the Jews & the chosen enemies of the regime who were called "terrorists."

The first #Bordiga #ebook!
perhaps the other left communists (AKA my fellow lunatics) on this site would delight if you would:

Hear Bordiga say "Isn't it true, Ex-Marxist!"

and also stuff about the atrocity of a phrase "socialist commodity production"

or better yet why that's ridiculous

in his Dialogue with Stalin!!
solar-communism.neocities.org/

solar-communism.neocities.orgAmadeo Bordiga - Dialogue with Stalin

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

openculture.com/2017/01/20-les
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

Open Culture20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy SnyderTimothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s.

“We must consider just how the words are selected and what they are meant to do to us. … There is a long history of this, all around the world, including Hitler in 1933 and Stalin in 1934.”
—Timothy Snyder, The evil at your door
#hitler #stalin #trump

I hear a 'new' #MAGAs 'line'

> Even if everything is collapsing (institutions, economy)
even if you lose job, home, social security etc ...
Relax...
#trump has a 'Master Plan'
🤣
Trump has shown during his life that he is a good scammer
but a very VERY bad business man

IF there is a 'Master Plan' ... it's not his
so... whom plan is it ? who is manouvring all this shit ? Heritage foundation ? bilionaires ? Nazi Hydra ?

#Hitler #Stalin #Putin also had 'Master Plan'
...
US is loosing controll