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• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah you can definitely do the physical act of saying that you love nazi propaganda while disavowing hitler.

  … the fuck?

  This some kinda silly obvious and intentional straw-man or are you going to follow it up with some kind of explanation?

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  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure, the simplest explanation is that if you think Stalin was unelected or had unlimited power, or that Mao was a dictator for whom everyone contemporary to him unquestioningly followed, you fell for nazi propaganda. Stagnation breeds fascism, and when nazis cannot win, they will settle for stagnation; the easiest way to foster stagnation is to say that the extreme left and extreme right are the same, so we should pick a third way, a reasonable, moderate, centrist approach, that just so happens to set up economic and social tensions that can easily ferment into and have clever nazis foment fascism.

    The Red Scare, which is what most of you tend to base your propagandized version of history off of without even realizing it, had exactly one purpose. Protect capitalism, and foment fascism. It has done immeasurable harm in the US especially, where it is responsible for more deaths directly than the totality of all wars fought by the US on every side combined, but more harm has been done to the minds of those that will repeat the premise of this propaganda, the core ideas, as if they were their own conclusions after reasonably and logically reviewing the ‘evidence.’

    To tie it from ‘obvious the fascist CIA worked to take freedom and power away from the American populace on behalf of the capitalist class,’ to ‘the CIA are nazis;’ one merely has to consider the timing of Operation Paperclip, and the nazi sympathizers in the US government that were against fighting the war from the start; many of whom curiously later either joined the agency or were a part of oversight committees on the agency.

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    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, the simplest explanation is that if you think Stalin was unelected or had unlimited power, or that Mao was a dictator for whom everyone contemporary to him unquestioningly followed, you fell for nazi propaganda.

      And I said none of that nor do I believe any of it, so is it safe to say you’re having a big fat juicy straw-man with the rest of your comment and I can skip it?

      Is it also safe to say the implied attack on me that I love either that or Hitler is a pretty ridiculous way to enter this thread?

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      • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        (I hate violent authoritarian communism e.g. Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism, but not Marxism),

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