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barsoap@lemm.ee 23 hours agoGee that worked well in Germany didn’t it have a look at the polling results for the AfD.
Trouble being that in the east, antifascism was considered state matter, therefore, ordinary people did not get involved. In the west, it was a civil society issue. The SED de-politicised the population, “join the party and read the script or don’t get involved”, and now the east is severely lacking in civil society capacity to oppose fascism. Capacity to engage in politics in the first place, the east is run by West German politicians because East Germans just don’t bother to become politicians, they rather elect West Germans instead. And then they’re complaining that they’re not getting heard.
Nothing about what the Soviets did in the GDR was “taking fascism seriously”, unless with “take seriously” you mean “fertilise the ground”.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
That’s a poor assessment, and looks down upon the people of East Germany as “stupid” and “compliant.” The West was never truly de-Nazified, but the East was absolutely de-“commiefied” after the fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germany was purged of its Nazis, and then purged of its Communists. In purging the Communists, the resurging fascists go unopposed.
barsoap@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Did you just call me a fascist Zionist. As far as opposing the genocide is concerned I haven’t been cracked down on – maybe because I understand the cultural context. The government itself, btw, has always considered Israel’s annexations and settlements outside of the 1967 borders to be illegal.
They’re neither. What’s lacking is a cultural habit of self-rule. Complaining “why don’t the people on top do things properly”, that’s not compliant, that’s not stupid, but it’s also quite ineffective when you could run for office and do it better yourself.
The west’s denazification didn’t happen after the war, true – it happened '68, when kids started to ask their parents inconvenient questions. That never happened in the east. It could never happen in the east because the party insisted on its monopoly on politics.
Also it’s plenty well-documented of how the SED just didn’t bother to crack down on Nazi structures. Roughly 25% of SED members had a Nazi past, Plenty of boneheads starting in the 80s, later on they infiltrated the FDJ, in 1990 about 14% of GDR youth agreed with the statement “there were positive things about nationalist-socialist rule”. Have a wikipedia article to kick off your further research into the topic. Why is there only a German version? Because apparently noone outside of Germany actually gives a fuck about these things.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
I didn’t call you a fascist Zionist, I said the whole of Germany is infested with fascist Zionists. I didn’t even know you were German. Though, “understanding the cultural context” is often a dogwhistle, so you may wish to drop that language.
It’s convenient to blame the people for not being “culturally developed enough” to oppose fascism, and it blunts the active role of Nazis in the West, and erases the de-communization of the East following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fascism wasn’t “erased” from West Germany because children askdd hard questions, Nazis were key figures and great effort was made to make it appear as though West Germany was truly distanced from fascism. Lo and behold, Germany unwaveringly supports Israel and the ethnic cleansing campaign.
Fascism can only be truly beaten by advancing to Socialism.
barsoap@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Really. Dogwhistle.
This is about things like inflationary use of the term Nazi, just as an example not even Die Linke calls the AfD Nazis – the agreed-upon term is fascist. That’s because culturally we’re careful about not diluting that term.
So when someone goes over to say feddit.org and posts about how “German police is all Nazis”, that won’t fly. Not because the absolutely left-heavy and German demographics of feddit.org fail to recognise issues with the German police, but because you just trivialised Nazi rule.
That kind of cultural context.
Your words. You seem to be right-out seeking terms that pass judgement. I suggest finding language that seeks analysis, instead.
The psychopolitics of fascism are anxiety: Shutting off higher mammalian and human instincts by induction of fear states. Socialism is an answer to that, yes, but the KGB surely doesn’t help with the anxiety. All that paranoia, all that distrust, and policies which do not alleviate it but only deepen it. Psychologically, capitalism, fascism, and tankiism are different sides of the same socio-psychological maladaptation to human nature.