They have one very important thing in common. They both support the alt-right. Fascists because they want to. Leftist because they’re purists.
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davel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoHorseshoe theory is horseshit.
- ‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_s…
- Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so was unsurprisingly anti-communist, and she was funded & promoted by the CIA.
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and FascismOne of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
davel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They do not support the alt-right. What are you even talking about? “MAGA communists” almost never show up on Lemmy, and when they do they are quickly shown the door.
AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I have read a lot of marxist and anarchist theory. All marxist theories did is to confirm that the anarchists are right.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They support the alt-right by being overly idealistic and failing to partner with liberals and more moderate leftists to make progress.
Divide and be conquered.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Partnering with liberals is idealistic. They always stab you in the back at the first opportunity.
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Look what you made me do!
I wouldn’t have considered genocide, if you were so idealistic!!
If you had only partnered up with the people who only car about money, we could have returned to the status quo.
Mate, the goal is to be idealistic. No one is perfect, but we want to strive for what’s the best and hope we reach there some day.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is an example of what being nice is for the average Lemmy user
Jesus Christ you people can’t even comment without going ballistic at each other over the slightest thing
davel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t call this the “average” Lemmy user, but there is a minority of very loud users who make it seem that way at times.
If we want this to be a pleasant place, users need to report them, and mods & admins—who, I cannot stress enough, do this labor for free or at most peanuts—need to deal with them.
davel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You’ve once again shown your empty accusations and insults, contrary to OP’s advice in this post.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You will never be accepted in this space no matter how many alt accounts you make to downvote people.
This isn’t reddit you fascist, your tactics don’t work here.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have no problem with them being here
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Calling an admin an alt account is a bold play.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Calling an admin an alt account is a bold play.