Anarcho-Bolshevik @ AnarchoBolshevik @lemmygrad.ml

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I can’t say yet!

I have a lengthy rant prepared for the day after tomorrow.

Here is a hint: it has something to do with horseshoe theorism.

That is why it irritates me whenever somebody claims that anti‐Zionism is somehow an attack on Jewish self‐determination. The neocolony is an antidemocratic oligarchy; it cannot possibly serve Jewish self‐determination.

The situation in Palestine is really stressing me out.

Will the Palestinian Soghomon Tehlirian please show up and fire a bullet through Benito Netanyahu’s worthless fucking head already.

And we need every one of those hostages to be returned home.

Then end the occupation. We were never in this situation in the pre‐Zionist era. All of those captives could be safe and sound if the neocolonists simply gave the Palestinians back their land, and no Palestinian would have to resort to anything as extreme as a hostage situation if the fucking Zionists didn’t already exhaust them of their options.

I don’t care who’s pulling the triggers. As far as I’m concerned, the loss of Jews is the Zionist ruling class’s fault.

Although I’ve joked that Benjamin Netanyahu must be directly managing all of these accounts, I feel like a bot network would be unnecessary because there are likely enough dullards on the Internet to unwittingly do the neocolonists’ PR work for them.

That said, I can’t dismiss the bot network idea out of hand. Can you show me evidence for it?

Is it just me, or are the anticommunists more vocal than usual lately?

TFU

Did you encounter a few somewhere across Lemmy? Maybe I can persuade them to educate theirselves.

I highly doubt that Moscow has a policy to massacre unarmed civilians or treat them like garbage. It made sense for the Axis because it was either part of its long‐term goals of colonization or terrorizing people into obeying its demands, but in the Russian Federation’s case all that it would do is create a propaganda victory for its enemies… this is (obviously) not to say that the Russian Federation is leaving all civilians unharmed; civilian casualties are almost inevitable in warfare, and there may even be a few undisciplined soldiers doing it intentionally, but we really have no good reason to believe that it’s policy like it usually was in the Axis’s case.

July 1933: Four Powers Pact
January 1934: Polish–German Declaration
June 1935: Anglo–German Naval Agreement
November 1936: Anti‐Comintern Pact
December 1938: Franco‐German Declaration
March 22, 1939: Memel treaty
March 24, 1939: German–Romanian Economic Treaty
May 22, 1939: Pact of Steel
May 31, 1939: Danish–German Nonaggression Pact
June 1939: Estonian–German and Latvian–German Nonaggression Pacts
September 1940: Tripartite Pact
June 1941: Treaty of Friendship between Germany and Turkey

‘The "Cold War" is a Marxist lie.’

So what’s the difference between ideological European racialized capitalism, as a historical phenomenon, and European fascism?

Fascism was the predominantly petty bourgeois and militant movement that the haute bourgeoisie promoted to institutional power to secure capitalism. If there were no meaningful differences between European racialized capitalism and European fascism, that would logically imply that the Kingdom of Italy was already fascist in the 1910s and earlier, making the March of Rome redundant.

From a propaganda standpoint, it’s that the violence of capitalism is turned towards Europeans.

Umm… the Fascists were very violent against North and East Africans. I feel like you must already know this since you’ve clearly read some history, but to be honest it almost upsets me to see somebody overlook this.

I know that this is only part of your post, but I feel too uncomfortable to address anything else right now.

See my comment here.

See my explanation here.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2090045

Discussing Babi Yar was allowed, but Moscow strongly discouraged mentioning the victims’ Jewish heritage. This was because Moscow was worried about somebody showing favoritism. After all, the Axis invaders massacred millions of Soviet gentiles too, so why single out and emphasize Soviet Jews in particular?

I think that it was a misguided policy, but I don’t consider it an antisemitic one either. I’m only speaking as a gentile, though. I would recommend consulting Jews like @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml and ask them if they consider that policy antisemitic or not.

Well, I can thank you for sharing this unique perspective on the matter with me, even though I do find some of its conclusions either unconvincing or bizarre (‘Franchi (whose real name was Edgardo Sogno) was a monarchist, so strongly anti-Communist that after the war he joined very right-wing groups, and was charged with collaborating in a project for a reactionary coup d’état. Who cares? Sogno still remains the dream hero of my childhood.’ Seriously‽), but that still doesn’t justify hostility to a conclusion that’s very easy to reach. The statement ‘Fascism was a form of colonialism’ may be somewhat of an oversimplification, but I gave you some very good reasons why there was nothing ‘utterly ridiculous’ about it.

You didn’t answer my second question whether you know of Fascist Italy’s colonial history or not. So, you already knew of the ‘reconquest’ of Libya, the massacre at Addis Ababa, the forced marriages in Somalia, the concubinages in Eritrea, Benito Mussolini referring to Emperor Haile Selassie as a ‘Bolshevik pig’ in front of a crowd of thousands, and even the unofficial annexation of Tavolara in 1934?

On a side note, respectable scholars such as Robert Paxton would consider Iberia’s 20th century anticommunist régimes to have been at best parafascist, in part because they weren’t adventurer‐conquerors, but also for more complex reasons. For example:

After 1945 the Falange became a colorless civic solidarity association, normally referred to simply as the Movimiento. In 1970 its very name was abolished. By then Franquist Spain had long become an authoritarian régime dominated by the army, state officials, businessmen, landowners, and the Church, with almost no visible fascist coloration.⁸

(Source.)

Are you joking? Every scholar of Fascism will tell you that Fascist Italy inherited numerous colonies from the prefascist period: the Dodecanese Islands, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and arguably a portion of Tianjin, and later Fascist Italy added Fiume in 1924 and Albania, Ethiopia, and Tavolara in the 1930s. The very expression ‘mutilated victory’ was quickly adopted by the Fascists because they were outraged that the Kingdom of Italy didn’t gain more territory from World War I. Did you seriously not know this?

From the Dodecanese Islands to Libya, to Eritrea, the Italian state’s colonial holdings were testing grounds for strategies of governance and repression that would characterize [Fascist] domestic and occupied territories during World War II.¹³

(Source.)

Though millions of Fascists have fallen, they march with contemporary antisocialists in spirit to the fight.