Bolsheviks and Nazis had a lot of common

Close enough, welcome back “red fascism” narrative. Are we going to wave tricolors while yelling “no to communism!” while hand-in-hand with fascists as seen historically?

Hyperboles aside, Bolsheviks and Nazis are polar opposites (with some superficial overlap). Bolsheviks were a revolutionary communist party on a mission to liberate workers and help other communist parties internationally, but it eventually fell into opportunism due to various factors such as underdevelopment, failure to achieve internationalism, Stalin being THE opportunist who later ordered for the old Bolshevik guard to be murdered, etc.

Nazis on the other hand were a direct response to existential capital crisis which stemmed from poor post-war economic conditions and worker militancy/uprisings (that aimed to topple the existing capitalist order, being inspired by USSR). Nazis were there to reinforce and protect capital while crushing the workers.

If anything, a more apt comparison would be between Liberal Democracies and Nazism, given how one directly leads to another once existential crisis hits and workers start to rebel, rhetorical similarities such as nationalism, and both having the exact same purpose which is to ensure capitalist domination over society.

Yeah, toppling one of the most powerful empires in the world with one of the largest armies in the world is as easy as toppling a 3rd world country that has a severely weakened government.

Speaking of burning down parliaments, look up Reichstag fire and its consequences

It’s still not definitively confirmed that the guy was a right winger, his family might have been MAGA but the guy himself could have very possibly been radicalized recently by the endless ragebait “anti-fascist” posts and did the deed as a result. It would explain the casings at the very least.

From what I’ve seen, the entire assumption that the guy was a rightoid comes from the fact that his family is MAGA and that’s pretty much it.

I find it funny how this question is being asked on Lemmy of all places, where the definition of fascism has been completely lost (essentially now being some vague notion of right-wing evil)

Yeah, old anarchists were outright against it.

Also, campaign implies an organized effort, but these individual murders are anything but. Essentially what we got so far weren’t campaigns or even events necessarily, but mere spectacles. Momentary and fleeting, lasting until news cycles stop reporting on it and move on

Maybe, but healthcare question was already the biggest in US, with endless talks because it doesn’t suit business interests.

Besides, sympathy alone won’t bring about change, which is the goal.

Literally 196 shooter, put them up to the chair for writing cringe like that alone

And no, propaganda of the deed has been shown to not work in Luigi’s case. It’s literally been more than 9 months, it didn’t inspire the public at large at all (unless you count online larping) and just another lone wolf who from what I can see just recently got into leftism.

The domain name is a red flag in itself, but looking through steam underground I did find someone with plenty of comments under their belt saying how they got files for some game they shared from that site and 0 mentions of it being malware, so it’s probably okay.

That being said, I’d personally recommend just using bottles for piracy, don’t even bother with native linux ports given how they’re usually worse than windows versions running through DXVK/Vulkan (except maybe Factorio given it’s Linux unique optimizations) using Bottles or something for added security - it’s safer to download them too given how many trustworthy repackers package them.

The coup was lowkey the best and worst thing that happened to Allende. His policy of “revolution through reform” and the way he went about implementing it was genuinely nonsensical if you read about it (going for some half-baked ground between capitalism and socialism that just didn’t work and was a large part why the insane inflation happened + didn’t dismantle capitalist power structures which all but guaranteed the coup to happen eventually), but because of the coup that’s all swept under the rug and he’s a martyr.

Years of lead all over again

Killing some milquetoast conservative grifter isn’t “waking up”, it won’t be some catalyst for “inspiring people to take up arms against oppression” either as that stuff only happens in fairy tales (see: Luigi). All adventurism does is kills some person who gets replaced by an identical cog in the machine, throws the perp’s life away and in some cases gets opportunistically used to allow even more oppression (see: Reichstag fire).

Real change comes from organized, unified action and not from lone wolfism.

Yeah, it’s probably mandated too by the democratic party but it is a little strange to cry fascism at your main opposition then immediately go “violence bad do NOT do this” as soon as something bad happens to them.

Funny, deserved, but not very helpful just like all adventurism. Best case scenario realistically is for nothing to come out of it, worst case is Trump cracking down hard on leftists using this as pretext.

Also I love how Newsom was on a speed dial to immediately condemn the murder, no balls to be consistent with the shitpost narrative he hired a staffer to do

March on Washington

Dress code: Blue shirts

Idk, I took the “this is the best we got” as some sort of acceptance of it as in the narrative should be used and supported

That’s quite fast, it’s only been a week after the shooting and they’re already using the precedent.

Yeah, maybe you’re right.

I’m definitely on the side of marxist feminists (which is one of the bigger branches/theories in the feminist spaces), which is one of the major theories that is based on class analysis and one that recognizes how capitalism and patriarchy (which are not being conflated into one) are interconnected and support one another.

It’s also opposed to bourgeois feminism, which might deliberately omit systemic causes behind oppression (see: the original post) and just aims to benefit women at the top while working class women get shafted.

Hope this answers what my stance is at least.

The subtleties of who is and isn’t the bourgeoisie takes a level of brain power that the average person just does not have today.

Yeah, the subtleties of “whoever owns a business/land” or “whoever owns capital” or “capitalists and landowners”.

The hyperfixation on billionaires shifts the blame from the system and class society to the personal excesses and individual wealth concentration of those at the tippity top. It also completely ignores how billionaires get to where they are (what happens with businesses below 1 billion) and has the implication that they’re the “small guys who might be good as opposed to evil billionaires”, which normalizes and legitimizes the system. Besides, you can’t really focus just on the billionaires via reformism given how they own most of the power and can lobby the shit out of any bourgeois government, leaving anti-billionaire talk just talk.

This narrative should be actively fought against, not accepted given how it aids and reinforces the system.

Yeah, but posts and the recent sudden narrativization of only billionaires being bad or them being “the focus” really tries to divert from the existence of bourgeois as a class.