According to Mindaugas Pocius, a Lithuanian historian and author of “The Far Side of the Moon” (Kita mėnulio pusė), an extensive study on the reprisals, over 9,000 civilians — including no fewer than 300 children — were designated as collaborators, court‐martialled and executed by the Forest Brothers.
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It sometimes happens that that the workers themselves give themselves over to racism. This happens when, threatened with massive unemployment, they attempt to concentrate it on certain groups: Italians, Poles or other “filthy foreigners,” “dirty Arabs,” “[insert slur here],” etc. But in the proletariat these impulses only occur at the worst moments of demoralization, and don’t last. As soon as he enters into struggle the proletariat clearly and concretely sees its enemy: it is a homogeneous class with an historical perspective and mission.
On the contrary, the petit bourgeois is a class condemned. At the same time it is also condemned to be unable to understand anything, to be incapable of fighting: it can do nothing but […] flail about in the vice that crushes it. Racism is not an aberration of the spirit: it is and will be the petit bourgeois reaction to the pressures of big capital. The choice of a “race,” that is of the group upon whom the destruction will be concentrated, obviously depends on the circumstances.
I’d rather suffer from a mental disorder than be an anticommunist.
Similar to the National “Socialists”.
(Which is actually quite fitting, given how so many neofeudalists are also militant anticommunists who admire the Chilean military dictatorship.)
I would not go so far as to call Ayn Rand the alt‐right’s favorite woman, but they’d certainly have few problems with that speech. Same for her comments here.
This is a good article; almost like a condensed alternative to Kakel’s The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide. That said, I have to quibble with the title: Imperial America was an important source of inspiration, but it was not the only international influence, as the focus on it here implies. The Kingdom of Italy, for example, also served as an important source of inspiration and many German Fascists scoured it for models. Then there is the British Empire, and the Ottoman Empire’s violence against Armenians almost certainly influenced and encouraged the Third Reich’s own violence, but the author did not touch on any of these herein.
Don’t think that I’m trying to savage the article; it is still very much worth reading, but I have to be honest and say that it only scratches the surface.
I’ve never majored in anything. I study Fascism a lot in my spare time, partly because I feel like we need a better understanding of the subject, and partly because I admittedly have a rather morbid fascination with the phenomenon. Reapplying Marx’s analysis to capitalism in decay helps me remember his analysis better.
I don’t have much experience accepting compliments, but…I thank you. I appreciate it. It reminded me of the time when my therapist skimmed my page debunking the ‘Nazism was socialism’ myth and he called it a ‘master’s level thesis’.
I have a feeling that my answers are either inaccurate or lackluster, but I hope that this is at least better than nothing.
Excellent expansion on Dr. Parenti’s original lecture. In fact, I am going to edit the Parenti sticky on /c/capitalismindecay to make this the URL (while inserting the original audio in the description as an alternative).
I did have a few minor issues with the video: there were a few parts where the audio felt almost muffled or oddly monophonic, and I’d hesitate to classify Pinochet as a fascist (strictly speaking), but I certainly don’t blame anybody for calling him one. Overall, though, this video is great. It was also very considerate of the authors to keep the music volume lower than the rest of the audio. (Bes D. Marx’s otherwise great videos suffer from that issue and it makes their videos harder to understand.)
Loss of appetite is already a common symptom of depression, so nobody needs to give the lower classes this advice; it is redundant.
Oh. That’s a good point. You really showed me how wrong I was. I wish that I were as smart as you.