According to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the “double genocide thesis”, or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women’s rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin’s crimes and the “double genocide thesis”, an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: “1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust.” By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could “threaten the primacy of private property and free markets”.
Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.
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Science shows that humans as a species have been able to develop and thrive due to cooperative pro social instincts. This has been proven in studies of children. Our greed driven society beats this inherent impulse out of people to ‘prepare them’.
It’s either socialism or barbarism. That’s why we are back here again.
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L I B E R A L . S C R A T C H E D
👍 the image I found didn’t have any info with it, thanks for finding
Thanks!
this was specifically an exercise in trying to be extremely concise along the lines of something like E = MC^2
inspired by this: https://lemmy.ml/post/3667037
P : individualist competition and concentration of wealth/power
E : evoking climate change etc, in a sense scaling in difficulty infinitely
2·5 days agoBy 1998, Radio Free Asia had launched a Uyghur Service where Abbas became the first Uyghur reporter broadcasting on Xinjiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
In 2017, Abbas founded Campaign for Uyghurs. The non-profit is based in Washington, DC, and is used to organize internationally for the rights of Uyghur people. The primary focus of the organization are the ongoing crimes against humanity in China.
Multiple Congress people in DC are also listed: Tom Suozzi of New York and Chris Smith of New Jersey, Marco Rubio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushan_Abbas#Campaign_for_Uyghurs
What’s Marco Rubio up to at the moment?
0·5 days agonuclear reactor is steady state power tho
This framing of the relationship between liberalism and fascism not only presents them as complete opposites, but it also defines the very essence of the fight against fascism as the struggle for liberalism. In so doing, it forges an ideological false antagonism. For what fascism and liberalism share is their undying devotion to the capitalist world order. Although one prefers the velvet glove of hegemonic and consensual rule, and the other relies more readily on the iron fist of repressive violence, they are both intent on maintaining and developing capitalist social relations, and they have worked together throughout modern history in order to do so. What this apparent conflict masks—and this is its true ideological power—is that the real, fundamental dividing line is not between two different modes of capitalist governance, but between capitalists and anti-capitalists. The long psychological warfare campaign waged under the deceptive banner of ‘totalitarianism’ has done much to further dissimulate this line of demarcation by disingenuously presenting communism as a form of fascism.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
dang that’s pretty good:
WarCraft :: No Thanks
OurCraft :: Yes Plz
ya, I almost went with ‘liberals’ instead
https://lemmy.ml/post/28771552
it’s been popping up recently, french artwork
The answer to the question is all the billionaires surrounding Trump. Oligarchs all the way down. No need to be homophobic about it. America has always had a fascist ruling class.
1·2 months agoSo spooky
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10·2 months agoThis is why the phrase “fascism is imperialism turned inward” is so real. Using psyops and state violence to suppress dissent is the the same strategy used in the global south to overthrow and depose any mass labor movements or socialist leaning political formations.
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-union-north-carolina-racism/
Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
“Under the National Labor Relations Act, I should have been allowed to flyer on the premises,” said Orin Starn, who had worked at Amazon for six months. “But the police, who in the small town of Garner where Amazon is the biggest employer act as a kind of private security force, didn’t care and just took us off to jail.”
this is you rn
socialism >> communism is a evolving process, but every time it starts growing and developing, capital asserts itself to dominate and destroy it
the only Actually Existing Socialisms today have nuclear deterrents to avoid this fate, they also have to develop counter-intelligence defenses because just nuclear weapons are not enough to protect from all the myriad threats that capital engages in towards anti-socialist >> anti-communist goals
if you can not understand this material reality of history, and use it to analyze the struggle for liberation in this world, you are lost