Right, like anticommunists are all wonderful human beings… oh, wait.

I would argue that calling Imperial America fascist is an exaggeration, but that hardly makes it less worthy of our opposition. In Fascist Italy, there was a systematic crackdown on the trade unions, a gradual elimination of opposition parties (starting with socialist ones, which were to be smashed rather than absorbed), a gradual deprecation of the pseudodemocracy, and the ruling class promoted a predominantly petty bourgeois and violently anticommunist movement (Fascism) into an institutional power without even pretending to consult the masses. Imperial America’s suppression of the lower classes has not become that intense (at least not yet).

Michael Parenti laid down a good explanation of Fascism, and he derived much of his theory from Daniel Guerin’s excellent Fascism and Big Business. If you want to study Fascism seriously, that is the book that you want to start out with.

Briefer, communist explanations for Fascism include Clara Zetkin’s The Struggle Against Fascism and Leon Trotsky’s pamplet Fascism: What it is and how to fight it. (I know that you’ll all roll your eyes at me for recommending one of Trotsky’s works—and I do agree that this one is imperfect, to put it succinctly—but I doubt that you’ll strongly disagree with his summary of Fascism either.) For a moderner explanation, I recommend Bes D. Marx’s ‘Why Did Mussolini Move From Marxism To Fascism?’

My own summary is that Fascism was the militant and predominantly petty bourgeois movement that the haute‐bourgeoisie promoted to institutional power to preserve and strengthen capitalism at all costs.

“Fascism is Imperialism/Colonialism turned inward.” hit the mark pretty well

Ehhhh…

‘[Axis] crimes have been eliminated from the Estonian collective memory, both in the West and, as far as can be seen, in present‐day Estonia as well.’

Yasamin Jameh (the author) almost mentioned that work of pseudohistory when she wrote ‘now widely‐debunked myth was that homosexuals themselves were behind the rise of the Nazi movement’. Unlike Lively, Jameh discusses the matter of homosexual fascists in good faith and actually attempts to explain why some gay men sided with their oppressors.

I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by the feedback that this thread has received. I was thinking that some would have been irritated to see this subject since it was an embarrassing time in LGBT+ history, but discomforting others wasn’t my goal. Proletarians, and perhaps especially LGBT+ ones, should beware of queer folks who either join or try to win over their oppressors. That doesn’t mean that heterosexism or cissexism against them is acceptable, but they don’t deserve unconditional support either.

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Whatever. China’s economy is by far the worst in the world and their ‘country’ going to collapse extremely soon. In fact, it’s going to collapse so soon that it will be on the exact same microsecond that Russia loses the war. That is how soon it’s going to collapse. All Israel has to do is defeat Hamas tomorrow, and it’s all over for Xi and Putin.

What did Einstein […] say about insanity again?

Nothing.

I think that @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml or somebody else should know that pinging others is only effective when done in replies, not original posts. I completely missed this thread until I did a search for my own username.

Anyway, here are some sources:

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz

Architect of Death at Auschwitz: A Biography of Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Höss: Villain, Scapegoat or Victim of Circumstance (eight‐page biography; good if you are short on time)

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (not strictly about Höß, but discusses him quite a bit)

‘Und Sie hatten nie Gewissensbisse?’ Die Biografie von Rudolf Höß, Kommandant von Auschwitz, und die Frage seiner Verantwortung vor Gott und den Menschen

The film The Zone of Interest is also a good reenactment of Höß’s life as a camp commander and a settler‐colonist. I wouldn’t cite it like scientific research, but if you really want to get a feeling of how he lived during his career then I recommend watching it.

Well, apart from the child labour, kidnapping, forced sterilizations, lethal heterosexism and cissexism, famines, superexploitation of the proletariat, and extermination of approximately fifty million lives (mainly Europeans, but also some Afrasians, through methods such as reprisals, colonisation, &c.), yeah, the German Fascists were innocent. After all, none of those millions of victims was a white cishet capitalist man, and all anticommunists know that nobody else counts as human, so who cares?

What about the millions of Palestinians who are disinterested in Trump? Aren’t their opinions more important than those of some confused kid from Dearborn?

Apart from driving over and crushing their victims, the practice that earned the Blackshirts notoriety in Italy during Mussolini’s rise to power in the early 1920s had been the killing of opponents by dragging them to their death. Given the numerous lorries available to them in Addis Ababa, both from the military and the [Fascist] government transport company, it was perhaps inevitable that they would use the same method during the massacre of Addis Ababa.

Kirubel Beshah, an Ethiopian witness who had been a student at the Teferi Mekonnin School and who after Liberation would teach mathematics there, reported, ‘Ethiopian blood flowed like water everywhere. Saddest of all was that at first they tied dead bodies to the back of their trucks, and pulled them along the road while shouting and singing, but later, they also started to tie the living to their trucks, so as not to waste bullets. It was very disturbing to see human bodies being torn to pieces alive, by stones and bushes.’²⁹

(Emphasis added. Source.)

Anybody lazy enough to equate socialism in one country with fascism is almost guaranteed to trip over theirselves to justify (or deny) Finland’s Axis collaboration.

Idk why you proclaim to be so against nazis when you share so much of your ideology with them.

One word, two syllables:

Finland.

Finland.

Finland.

Wait, we needed an expert to tell us this?

Tout est accompli.

In a statement to the JTA, the ADL said the Wikipedia decision was part of a “campaign to delegitimize the ADL.”

How amusing, as if there were some shadowy cabal masterminding a coordinated attempt to bring down their memetic organization.

The only ‘campaign to delegitimize the ADL’ is its own kamikaze mission to mindlessly recategorize all opposition to a crappy régime as antisemitism while leaving actual victims of white supremacy in the dust. I predict that the ADL is either going to fall into obscurity or outright vanish after the last apartheid régime collapses.