I got such an aneurysm from reading the next reply (see link) I decided I had to let you all read this brainrot:
Also yes, .world is so low hanging fruit. But this one is slightly different.
Authoritarianism
This is an irrelevant observation since any government that wants to survive is going to engage in methods that others will inevitably regard as ‘authoritarian’. You may as well say that fascism and communism are the same because fascists and communists both wear clothes. Who cares?
Ideology revolves around common enemies - In fascism this comes in the form certain [sic] ethnicities or nationalities
I like how the author conveniently forgot to mention fascism’s war on socialists. Also, one could just as easily argue that anticommunist ideology — in general, not only fascism — revolves around common enemies as well.
Bitterly oppose materialism - Fascism opposes materialism because it is deemed to lack acknowledgement of the role of the spirit, while Marxism opposes materialism because it is deem [sic] to be a key engine in class warfare.
I think that what the author did here was first use ‘materialism’ in the scientific sense (the principle that everything that exists is material), then used the word in the sense of avarice. This certainly wouldn’t be the first time that an anticommunist forcibly made a clunky false equivalence, and it won’t be the last.
Bitterly oppose individualism
Explicit support of political violence
Anticommunists: famous for never endorsing political violence!
Marxism calls for […] killing the entirety of the bourgeoisie
https://imgur.artemislena.eu/XIvQWno
When you look at the more pragmatic ideologies around, you’ll notice that they don’t have enemies that define the ideology. Take for example, modern day social democracy. Who are it’s enemies? It doesn’t really have any. The ideology is more focused on specific values and approaches to issues rather than trying to define an enemy group as the root cause of everything. The same goes for liberalism.
islam as an ideology revolves around fighting the nonbelievers because they are ignorant sinners
I think that I’ve had enough.
I explicitly support political violence
AI could generate a response that feels less AI generated.
It is truly incredibly how a group of people can argue about something that clearly none of them have any hint of understanding of. McCarthyism making communism and socialism dirty words did its work I guess, good fucking gods. I want to scream ‘No investigation, no right to speak!’ at these people, but they actually think they understand anything about politics.
If these people could understand about politics, they wouldn’t be liberalSS.
If you think about it, supporting a militant lower‐class movement that wants to help other workers raise their living standards is really no different from supporting a petty bourgeois party that wants to imprison or massacre thousands of rebellious workers and subjugate the rest to the bourgeoisie. Here are some shocking similarities:
- Both are political.
- Both care about class.
- Both have goals.
- Both want to meet their goals.
- Both want life to be better for somebody.
- Both will use violence for something.
- Both have a red color somewhere in their symbols.
- Both have ideas.
- Both care about things.
- Both do stuff a lot.
"Marxism…tyrannical transitional government…
Tyrannical against who, Ben?
… common enemies…
With fascists, those targeted as enemies have no real power and are not a material threat. With anti-capitalists or Marxists, the enemy is those that have power and are not just a material threat but an existential one.
… bitterly oppose materialism…
… bitterly oppose individualism…
Oh honey… no… just no. Fascist don’t want individualism, they want everybody to be the same. That’s the whole point of treating anything that deviates from the “norm” as a de * enera * tion of society and must be destroyed or enshrined as lesser. Gays? Nope. Trans? Nope. Mixed race marriage? Nope. Mixed ethnic marriage? Nope. Born with a disability? Not acceptable in a fascist society.
There is nothing in Marxist theory that mirrors this quality of fascism. Opposing individual ownership of the means of production doesn’t deny an individual’s ownership of their identity.
…support of political violence…
You always have a right to defend yourself from people who want to kill you.
