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Apartheid is Fascism ( or: your crypto won’t save you when the jackboots come-a-marching).
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This “alt-right” bullshit that seems to be globally successful, in Spain too, there’s nothing “alt” about it, just rephrasing the old stale selfish and intolerant agenda in a very simple package.
Now it’s “libertarian”, which is certainly a nicer name. Freedom to be homophobic, racist, misogynist… And if you point at them, you’re a communist. Pretty simple, by polarization, if there’s only communists or them, the extreme right is no longer extreme. They’re not indulging fascist ideas, they’re just freedom fighters and even Biden is a communist. They’re not homophobic, they’re just defending their family values, that the gay communist agenda is trying to undermine. They’re not racist, they’re only defending local tradition (except foreign hedge funds and speculation, those are ok), and so on…
What amazes me is that these things come in “packages”. What does an economic ideology have to do with abortion, gay marriage or bloody gun control?. It used to be that you could only manipulate those that read the papers, watched the news, and those require some effort cos they showed desire to be informed.
Communist or fascist. Koala or BM3. Preset hoarder (🙋🏻♂️@ervin ) or tweaker.
👇 this needs a new version with an iPad!
What a forum this is! 👏👏👏🙌
I’m just finishing this book called Militarized Global Apartheid written by an anthropologist that demonstrates how the whole world operates as an apartheid system that divides the global north and the global south along racial lines for exploitation. It’s the most convincing account I’ve read about global inequality and what used to be called “underdevelopment.”
Here’s the blurb:
In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color. By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics
Thanks for the heads up about Besteman’s work.
Thanks I’m getting that for my e reader right now. Thank you!
Nice try, Mr Shapiro, but I said nothing about fascist countries.
Was hoping I’d be wrong. I mean here in italy they just voted that homophobia isn’t a hate crime so…
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By the way, this sounds great.
Very nice work.
Nice words! Great to hear this opinion!
Nice to see more people from my little country
Great! I hope you like it. Excellent stuff, by the way. And best of luck with the recovery!
Thank you very very much!
This is really a huge compliment for me. Thank you!
Thank you tahiche and, yes I dunno lots of people get offended about the strangest things these days. I love your song and have subscribed to your channel!! Solidarity brother!
Thank you for listening!
Lovely work, sound debate, good stuff 👍👍
Now there’s an idea for sticker bombing my iPad.
I’m just amazed at the lengths people will take their partisan bullshit, to the extent of allying themselves with the most hateful people and groups just because its against their “opponents”. This contrarian attitude is everywhere now, and at the cost of losing true democratic and humanitarian principles.
Still, I will never ever use bm3.
Thank you so so much xxx
Yes we have to be careful about terminology but let's not forget it was only this year that Trump supporters staged an attempted coup at the Capitol. They came a lot closer to suceeding than a lot of us, myself included, realised at the time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010tff/four-hours-at-the-capitol
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Well spotted. 👏🏻
@sevenape : nice composition. Thanks for sharing.
Some of the labels might be warranted. If someone calls themself a "Democratic Socialist" but their every statement aligns with Marxism, I think that's a problem with them being up front about their positions.> @JeffChasteen said:
First of all, who is “Mr. Shapiro”? Is this your way of expressing an anti-Semitic comment?
Second of all, words have definitions and definitions matter.
Fascism isn’t about an individual. Fascism is about a system of government. Individuals might express a “fascistic” viewpoint, but a person expressing such an opinion isn’t evidence of fascism. A extremist system of government which is authoritarian would be evidence. There is no such thing today.
And before this conversation goes where I think you’re pushing it, Antifa are not anti-fascists. They’re transnational terrorists who are funded and directed by Marxists in support of Communism. Everyone attached to Antifa should be charged with terrorism.
Ben Shapiro is an American “right wing intellectual” who also likes to move the goalposts during a discussion. Sorry, but that exceedingly lame “Anti-Semitic” canard was not a nice try.
See you at the barricades, but not here. I have no time for bad faith arguments.
Toodles.
Oh, boy. You didn’t address a single point made. I guess posting incendiary material then walking away without being able to defend it is a choice.
No offence but antifa is just a term for someone who opposes fascism, and has roots as far back as Germany in the 1930s, the far right in America have appropriated the term and twisted it to make the term a slur. Literally anyone who opposes fascism is antifa.
There may or may not be dictionary definition fascist governments in power today but there are certainly governments that have fascistic tendencies and to ignore that is to commit the errors our grandparents made 90 years ago.
I’ll just leave this here:
Roger Griffin describes fascism as "a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism." Griffin describes the ideology as having three core components: "(i) the rebirth myth, (ii) populist ultra-nationalism, and (iii) the myth of decadence."
Not so outlandish…
I probably don’t have to clarify this for you, but the people who were members of the historical antifascist movement within Germany were Communists. You know this already, right? The Nazi movement in Germany was bad and so were the Communists who fought them. All bad. Communists aren’t better because of one ahistorical event which was detrimental to Nazis. Communism is awful. Ask someone who lived through it. I have plenty of first hand accounts from people I’ve known.
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Sorry I’m not familiar with your source, but if he ever argued in favor of people in Antifa or their radical Left violence, I’m afraid I cannot take him seriously. Ever.
Jeff, do you self-identify as a Communist, Marxist or other form of Socialist?
I’m aware that exceedingly naive and ignorant of history young people are more radically Left these days. They don’t understand why it doesn’t work because they confuse violent mass action with power. Violent mass action is the opposite of freedom. It is pack animal behavior. And any person familiar with the “work” of Antifa in Portland and Seattle in the US knows that the mentally ill sociopaths there are a danger to themselves and to everyone in the area.