Anyone who openly claims Trump, or any us president, is a fascist is a complete moron.
That they can say it disproves what they're saying.
but it's often a GREAT hint at who they really are - or where their influences originate
why do you think the term FASCIST gets used by the left so frequently
why would that antiquated term resonate with people today?
there's wonderful documentation on how communism changes faces and tactics in order to further their goals but eventually -- like a fat kid with Tourettes -- you just can't hide 'em
Communists have ALWAYS used the term fascists as the ULTIMATE way to describe their mortal enemies
they are one of the best examples of ideological polar opposites in the political world
obviously this doesn't apply to EVERY SINGLE PERSON USING THE TERM -- but WORDS MATTER - they often inform and guide your thinking (he who defines the terms of the debate.....wins) - or provide clues to what someone else is thinking
So many people have been held at bay with mere words lately (and a good dose too social conditioning to be sure) -- it's truly amazing - but I also think it's starting to turn....
the words and tactics we're seeing often align with historical Marxism - so that's why you sometimes see the "progressive" reference viewed critically by anyone who takes a moderately serious delve into history
When you ask yourself why it matters - stop and ask yourself what type of reaction you think we'd be seeing if militant, well funded groups were marching for radical change in the US = and they were using terms, salutes, organizational tactics and a basis of philosophy that clearly tied them to the Nazi movement of the 1930-1940's
and there you go -- that's why it matters
there's a LOT of interesting insight in that "Gulag" series by Solzhenitsyn - in one section of Vol 3 he gives a lot of granular detail about how the final Czar was so soft with the revolutionaries and what happened as a result - here are some excerpts and comments:
- When one of the largest ever demonstrations was organized in St Petersburg (1901) the participants who were arrested were lodged in jails that resembled "something like a student picnic - roars of laughter, community singing, students walking around freely from cell to cell...,."
- In Moscow there was a subsequent rally that was more bold -- this time there were OPEN CALLS FOR TAKING UP ARMS (recall recent open calls from Marist-Black-Lives Matter calling for killing people?) - the goal of overthrowing the existing aristocracy was being shouted and threatened ... the response? One of the key organizers was locked up for 15 days .... he thought that was light so "he added 3 more weeks of his own accord"
- There are instances of student leaders calling for the overthrow of the govt early as well - when the Czar 'banished' them to 'exile' -- it often meant sending them one province away where there were accommodations from family members....in some cases student communist leaders were sent back to well-off estates (ironic) for their "exile"
- As the revolution picked up steam and learned from previous failures (I think the final fall in 1917 was the 3rd Russian revolt against the Czar (etc) going back to 1895) a university leader who was publishing flyers and promoting the overthrow of the govt was given literary support while in prison...this was not his first arrest for making seditious pronouncements and agitating for the overthrow of the govt --- he was lodged in the Petersburg investigation prison for 1 year but was given access to the dozens of book he requested and while there, he penned the bulk of more revolutionary material ("The Development of Capitalism in Russia") .,.and obtained approval to have his works SENT TO MARXIST PUBLICATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION --- he had a required diet and cooked meals sent to his specification and received parcels from home 3x a week
- The author notes that the image of the terrible "Russian Bastille" run by the Czar's was created IN THE WEST because certain authors were demoralized by the minor setbacks to the wider revolution (he provides more details of course)
these examples go on and on - page after page of names, dates, specific prisons and more feeble responses from the doomed government....
Once the tables turned there was NO MERCY WHATSOEVER -- some of the revolutionaries expressed humor at the futility and stupidity of the old guard....they were often hampered by outmoded concepts like "guilt" and "innocence"
The communists taught (and still do) that revolutions only happen along prescribed LAWS of history -- and they're ONLY generated by the "ONE TRUE PROGRESSIVE PARTY" -- they would tell you that the Czars could't have stopped what was about to happen no matter what they did -- -they lacked the will because of their class system and restrictive / narrow beliefs.....
they used their beliefs against them and unleashed an unimaginable and unrestrained spree of arrests, brutal slavery, systematic starvations and mass executions that went on for DECADES......within about a decade of the revolution laws were passed so that children who were 12 years old could be arrested and sent to special camps too.....your status as a woman or other vanguard group only mattered if you were part of the revolution -- otherwise you were to be "LIQUIDATED"......
But that's not socialism TODAY right?
That could never happen again --- and certainly not here, right?
if we take that approach (esp in light of the increasingly obvious anti-goat activity and calls for violence that were seeing) then logically we should also allow Neo-Nazi's a seat at the table....as long as they've promised to "clean up their act" and what not......
** See where they are "progressing" to now?
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Is it him? Maybe? Just because I'm biased I'm going with yeah.
