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‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.
That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.
Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.
It's not that cut and dry. There is a lot of overlap between capitalism and communism.
I never said the solution was full-blown communism. God, have the barest capability of nuance.
You clearly aren’t smoking responsibly if you genuinely believe that to be true.
You don't understand Marx or Lenin if you don't understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.
My point was that there's more nuance than just "capitalism always causes social fragmentation"
Ok, help me understand it then.
Go on...
We also literally imported their scientists
Not just their scientists.
Look up operation bloodstone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bloodstone
After directly inspiring their eugenics efforts.
Are you referring to purging facists after Nazi Germany fell?
Haha no, they didn't purge shit. I'm referring for example to the Russian Communist Party of the USSR killing people. And I'm not attaching a moral value on the methods, just looking at it as objective removal of fascist people and then observing modern day Russia. I think there are other similar examples. I imagine Hungary also purged any fascist they could smell ubder the commie rule, haven't checked, and yet here we are today.
Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn't really help there.