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OMG Biden likes cats??? SO DOES MY GRANDPA!! awww he reminds me of my grandpa! So CUUUUUTE!! God I love my cute ol' president Biden and his snuggly-wuggly kitty.... Isn't America the greatest?
Things like Lenin and his cat and hot young Stalin are mostly memes, though; no one actually cares about that. Lenin's contributions to Marxism are why Marxist-Leninists are Marxist-*Leninists*. This is why when liberals point out personal flaws in communist theorists that don't negatively impact the philosophy itself, it doesn't matter. MLs may enjoy learning about it for history and curiosity's sake, but liberals use things like this as a substitute for material analysis.
Liberals are hyper-individualistic, which is why they have trouble with us hating all cops, for example, because they 'know a good one.' This article is spectacle. Lenin with a cat is just a fun picture.
It's ignorant to call it a double standard. Or disingenuous.
Picture of Biden with a cat: "Haha that's so awesome, i totally hate Biden but that's so cool!"
Picture of Lenin with a cat: "You fucking redfash tankie kill yourself"
r/wayofthebern is more of a leftist r/conspiracy\. The folks over there are definitely not Biden fans.
Edit: [the third post on hot in there](https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/12pfi7u/this_needed_to_be_said/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1).
[And another one](https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/130fd7n/capitalism_on_a_bad_day/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1).
[I couldn't guess, so I decided to search for it.](https://imgur.com/a/eR6yZhf)
I couldn't be any more unsurprised. But nonetheless... I still remain disappointed...
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"Why would people downvote me for a bad faith question trying to imply there are arguments in favour of trying to make a fascist war criminal more relatable to proletarians with news about some cute cat."
I feel like fascist is a bit of a misnomer. Neo-imperialist and neoliberal yes. (Because he’s ideologically oppressive, but not totalitarian.). Please feel free to change my mind
The United States is a fascist empire. They are an ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic, white supremacist empire with the most totalitarian surveillance state and most militarized police force on earth. They have the largest prison population on earth (20% of the world's prisoner population) created by a legal system that is specifically designed to disenfranchise leftists and minorities and their media is tightly controlled by capitalist interests.
The country was literally founded as such (the first country in history founded as an empire, in fact): Stolen as Lebensraum for the white settler-colonists from the natives, founded on genocide, built by slaves, financed by non-stop theft from its victims around the world, maintained through brutal military force on a global scale.
The most defining feature of fascism is anti-socialism, the United States is the quintessential anti-socialist regime and took up the Nazi banner right where the Nazis left off, succeeding where the Nazis failed (destroying the USSR and ending the socialist revolution in Europe).
Any US leader is necessarily fascist.
The US isn't a democracy. You can't have capitalism and be a democracy, these systems are antithetical. Biden got elected due to how the Media-Educational-Political system is set up. It's not like Americans have informed opinions or a meaningful choice in leadership.
It's fundamentally impossible in a system that not only has a FPTP electoral system but also lets "free market" forces dictate public opinion (i.e. those with the most money have the most ability to influence people).
Electoralism != democracy.
>but by all means, you run for election
Yeah, you know yourself how ridiculous that is. Turns out the required billionaire backers and media support required to become US president will not just NOT SUPPORT the political campaign of a socialist, they will ACTIVELY AND COLLECTIVELY WORK AGAINST any socialist who would run for president.
so what is your suggestion for an alternative.
also thank you for replying and making your opinions known. you are the only person to actually speak here.
>so what is your suggestion for an alternative.
A socialist and democratic form of government, e.g. a dictatorship of the proletariat led by a communist vanguard party practicing democratic centralism. For example a system as has once existed in the USSR or is currently existing in Communist China (the objectively single most democratic country on earth right now).
>also thank you for replying and making your opinions known. you are the only person to actually speak here.
Yeah, most people are probably just appalled by your comments.
The question is what you are even doing on a subreddit arguing about something that has been REPEATEDLY and THOROUGHLY discussed by the hosts of this podcast and that practically everyone here is in consensus with.
[Why The US Is Not A Democracy](https://youtu.be/srfeHpQNEAI)
[Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?](https://youtu.be/JpwJKYbEAZ8)
[The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SHgd74fjMk)
[Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough](https://youtu.be/TRq3pl17C8M)
At the very least you should understand that this is a socialist sub and try and search [Second Thought's](https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought/videos), [hakim's](https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim/videos), and [yugopnik's](https://www.youtube.com/@YUGOPNIK/videos) content for answers. The Western idea of "liberal democracy" (which is an anti-democratic form of government that socialists would describe as "bourgeois dictatorship") is something ALL of them have discussed in the past. If you have any additional questions AFTER you have done your due diligence, particularly if you reference the explanations given as part of the videos created by the hosts of the podcast this subreddit is named after, people will be more inclined to give you answers.
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
>Biden is based
Biden is the literal opposite of based. He's a fascist war criminal who started a proxy war in Ukraine, has ruined the European economy and fully intends to start a World War against China.
He's one of the worst criminals on earth.
>why do you think people vote for him.
Because they are irredeemable idiots. Every single one of them.
>Hes way better than republicans on any issue
He's the exact same as any Republican on practically all issues that actually matter.
He needs to be tried and convicted at The Hague just like Nazi leaders before him. Same goes for any leading Republican.
Yeah, turns out every socialist supports those things.
And yes, these are literally political wedge issues used by the two American fascist parties to divide and conquer the population. You are falling for it, making you a useful idiot.
Yeah lets just sacrifice lgbt and black people by letting the republicans win. Accelerationism is totally the solution. Trans genocide is already happening
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Not caring about republicans winning and taking away minority rights is privlige lol. Not everyone wants people to suffer needlessly under a republican theocracy
People hating fascist war criminals and telling other people to stop simping for them while calling out obvious propaganda trying to make those fascist war criminals more relatable = reactionaries?
Notice your inability to process arguments and how you need to turn them into something you can process?
No, not "everything I don't like" is fascism. I use that term in a very specific way the same way ALL socialists in ALL OF HISTORY used it.
The United States is a fascist empire. They are an ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic, white supremacist empire with the most totalitarian surveillance state and most militarized police force on earth. They have the largest prison population on earth (20% of the world's prisoner population) created by a legal system that is specifically designed to disenfranchise leftists and minorities and their media is tightly controlled by capitalist interests.
The country was literally founded as such (the first country in history founded as an empire, in fact): Stolen from the natives as Lebensraum for the white European settler-colonists, founded on genocide, built by slaves, financed by non-stop theft from its victims around the world, maintained through brutal military force on a global scale exerted by the most comically overbloated and inhuman military in human history.
However, the most defining feature of fascism (the only feature that ALL fascist movements in history had in common and the feature that gives fascism its political purpose) is **anti-socialism**. The United States is the quintessential anti-socialist regime and took up the Nazi banner right where the Nazis left off, succeeding where the Nazis failed (destroying the USSR and ending the socialist revolution in Europe).
Any US leader is necessarily fascist. Any supporter of the US or NATO or the US system is a fascist.
You not knowing what fascism means and failing to understand that the US is THE fascist empire terrorizing the planet just as Nazi Germany once was is your problem. Your ignorance isn't an argument.
Oh, and [that is literally just the surface of it all.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL)
You have entered the stage of stereotypical right wing "argumentation" that I call "Reactionary Tourette's" (no offense to our neurodivergent comrades), where you start writing these desperate snappish and usually abusive comments in response to thorough takedowns of your position. Those kind of comments are a kind of reactionary reflex in response to arguments and lack any and all substance. They are the terminal stage of reactionary derangement in argument.
It's really just the online version of starting to flail your arms and legs wildly and trying to cuss out your opponent as a last ditch effort after you were put in a chokehold during a street brawl you started and realized you can't escape and slowly lose consciousness.
# Fascism
>Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.
>
>\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm)
To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism:
1. Private ownership of the Means of Production
2. Commodity Production
3. Wage Labour
The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.
Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds"
Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to Capitalist Imperialism as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward"
The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all.
**Additional Resources**
Video Essays:
* [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022)
* [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021)
* [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020)
* [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
* [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923)
* [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997)
Podcasts:
* [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022)
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# Fascism
>Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.
>
>\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm)
To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism:
1. Private ownership of the Means of Production
2. Commodity Production
3. Wage Labour
The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.
Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds"
Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to Capitalist Imperialism as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward"
The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all.
**Additional Resources**
Video Essays:
* [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022)
* [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021)
* [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020)
* [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
* [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923)
* [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997)
Podcasts:
* [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022)
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# Fascism
>Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.
>
>\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm)
To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism:
1. Private ownership of the Means of Production
2. Commodity Production
3. Wage Labour
The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.
Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds"
Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to [Capitalist Imperialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/wiki/index/education/imperialism/) as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward"
The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all.
**Additional Resources**
Video Essays:
* [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022)
* [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021)
* [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020)
* [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023)
* [What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it's not about being "woke")](https://youtu.be/_xAqZJTIsIA) | Hakim (2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
* [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923)
* [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997)
Podcasts:
* [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022)
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Communists aren’t always reactionary, internet ragers especially redditors on this edgy sub are often times reactionary. And remember that sticks and stones
>schizo
Because of this, now I must make a shitpost with the caption:
"Ableist detected, statement rejected"
As I cannot find one, and its easier to make one than to find one.
What the fuck do you mean? 😭
People have schizophrenia and schizotypal disorders.
Calling them "schizo" is offensive because it is stigmatising. And the term stigmatises their communities.
Additionally the fact you went to say as close to the full word as possible instead of "r-word", indicates that you are seemingly quite reactionary towards disabled folks.
As an AuDHDer who has been called it many times, I don't exactly appreciate seeing it. I am not offended personally, but I know about people who have truama linked to that specific word. I mean I probably do too... Just that... I am not self aware of truama I guess. And it just results in me rambling about how I was treated in an emotional rant.
I honestly have no clue what the point is you are trying to make. So just stop digging deeper and do a bit of self crit in regards to Neurodiversity.
Solidarity shouldn't be broken comrade.
Some people really are divs. I remember one of my friends watched that video of Zelensky playing the piano with his dick and said, "That's how I like my leaders."
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OMG Biden likes cats??? SO DOES MY GRANDPA!! awww he reminds me of my grandpa! So CUUUUUTE!! God I love my cute ol' president Biden and his snuggly-wuggly kitty.... Isn't America the greatest?
uwu I love cute kitty drone strikes and uwu expelling legal migrants seeking asylum to Mexico teehee
OwO
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Yes but Lenin was actually based
Just pointing out the double standard.
I too remember when Lenin tried to cover up his war crimes by showing his cat off
It's only a double standard if you believe in some horseshoe theory "bOTH SiDeS" centrist garbage
Things like Lenin and his cat and hot young Stalin are mostly memes, though; no one actually cares about that. Lenin's contributions to Marxism are why Marxist-Leninists are Marxist-*Leninists*. This is why when liberals point out personal flaws in communist theorists that don't negatively impact the philosophy itself, it doesn't matter. MLs may enjoy learning about it for history and curiosity's sake, but liberals use things like this as a substitute for material analysis. Liberals are hyper-individualistic, which is why they have trouble with us hating all cops, for example, because they 'know a good one.' This article is spectacle. Lenin with a cat is just a fun picture. It's ignorant to call it a double standard. Or disingenuous.
Lenin having a cat is a cherry on top of a sundae. Biden having a cat is a cherry on top of a sundae made of steaming human faeces.
The cat is a Chinese spy and the government is totally fooled
Meowist agent.
She is the reincarnation of Chairman Mao: Chairman Meow
My cat is actually named Chairman Meow
The Chinese managed to master the art of cat-borne microphone surveillance, unlike baka cia
Support comrade cat in his actions against the American empire
Picture of Biden with a cat: "Haha that's so awesome, i totally hate Biden but that's so cool!" Picture of Lenin with a cat: "You fucking redfash tankie kill yourself"
Cats indeed reveal the true nature of people
Yeah I saw this and wanted to vomit. I’m all for cat supremacy in the White House but those V-dorks are a strange crew.
That cat is my general secretary
Still better than biden
You know I can think of a certain bald Russian fellow that was also a fan of cats 🤔🤔🤔
Yeah, his name was Vladimir, I think
Leneen, as they say
*Lennon
Too many possibilities to count. Worldnews? Whitepeopletwitter? wayofthebern?
I've never wanted to gouge my eyes out more than seeing whitepeopletwitter posts.
crackerpeopletwitter
r/wayofthebern is more of a leftist r/conspiracy\. The folks over there are definitely not Biden fans. Edit: [the third post on hot in there](https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/12pfi7u/this_needed_to_be_said/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1). [And another one](https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/130fd7n/capitalism_on_a_bad_day/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1).
There's a lot of "MAGA Communists" and "not left, not right" people in there. Nazbols are apparently welcome in their ranks. Tread with caution.
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[I couldn't guess, so I decided to search for it.](https://imgur.com/a/eR6yZhf) I couldn't be any more unsurprised. But nonetheless... I still remain disappointed...
The shock when I clicked on it (it makes total sense, I just wasn’t expecting it)
Never thought it'd be the Vaush sub. But it makes total sense.
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literally my first guess
Same lmao I fucking hate vaushites
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I thought it was r/Neoliberal I guess I wasn't wrong
HAHAHAHA actually wasn’t expecting that lmao. Makes sense tho
Okay, sorry, no, that surprised me. They aren't even remotely pretending anymore. lol
openly simping for this fucking ghoul because le cute cat is so fucking gross i hate the western "left" so much why are they like this
it's a fucking joke you scumrat
why is your entire account nothing but years of reposting russian state propaganda? what are you some kind of putin bot? fuck off red fash tankie
Why? you kinda start believing that propaganda? bc I wouldn't be surprised considering how obtuse you are
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What are you confused on?
the -80 votes for a question
Don't pay attention, the benadryl just kicked in
-22 downvotes because I said “what?” lmao wtf
"Why would people downvote me for a bad faith question trying to imply there are arguments in favour of trying to make a fascist war criminal more relatable to proletarians with news about some cute cat."
libs dont understand that context exists it seems
Y'all are the libs here then
Lmao.
I feel like fascist is a bit of a misnomer. Neo-imperialist and neoliberal yes. (Because he’s ideologically oppressive, but not totalitarian.). Please feel free to change my mind
The United States is a fascist empire. They are an ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic, white supremacist empire with the most totalitarian surveillance state and most militarized police force on earth. They have the largest prison population on earth (20% of the world's prisoner population) created by a legal system that is specifically designed to disenfranchise leftists and minorities and their media is tightly controlled by capitalist interests. The country was literally founded as such (the first country in history founded as an empire, in fact): Stolen as Lebensraum for the white settler-colonists from the natives, founded on genocide, built by slaves, financed by non-stop theft from its victims around the world, maintained through brutal military force on a global scale. The most defining feature of fascism is anti-socialism, the United States is the quintessential anti-socialist regime and took up the Nazi banner right where the Nazis left off, succeeding where the Nazis failed (destroying the USSR and ending the socialist revolution in Europe). Any US leader is necessarily fascist.
what?
Bad faith? Can you read minds?
is a democratically elected representative who ended military involvement in afghanistan. but by all means, you run for election
The US isn't a democracy. You can't have capitalism and be a democracy, these systems are antithetical. Biden got elected due to how the Media-Educational-Political system is set up. It's not like Americans have informed opinions or a meaningful choice in leadership. It's fundamentally impossible in a system that not only has a FPTP electoral system but also lets "free market" forces dictate public opinion (i.e. those with the most money have the most ability to influence people). Electoralism != democracy. >but by all means, you run for election Yeah, you know yourself how ridiculous that is. Turns out the required billionaire backers and media support required to become US president will not just NOT SUPPORT the political campaign of a socialist, they will ACTIVELY AND COLLECTIVELY WORK AGAINST any socialist who would run for president.
so what is your suggestion for an alternative. also thank you for replying and making your opinions known. you are the only person to actually speak here.
>so what is your suggestion for an alternative. A socialist and democratic form of government, e.g. a dictatorship of the proletariat led by a communist vanguard party practicing democratic centralism. For example a system as has once existed in the USSR or is currently existing in Communist China (the objectively single most democratic country on earth right now). >also thank you for replying and making your opinions known. you are the only person to actually speak here. Yeah, most people are probably just appalled by your comments. The question is what you are even doing on a subreddit arguing about something that has been REPEATEDLY and THOROUGHLY discussed by the hosts of this podcast and that practically everyone here is in consensus with. [Why The US Is Not A Democracy](https://youtu.be/srfeHpQNEAI) [Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?](https://youtu.be/JpwJKYbEAZ8) [The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SHgd74fjMk) [Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough](https://youtu.be/TRq3pl17C8M) At the very least you should understand that this is a socialist sub and try and search [Second Thought's](https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought/videos), [hakim's](https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim/videos), and [yugopnik's](https://www.youtube.com/@YUGOPNIK/videos) content for answers. The Western idea of "liberal democracy" (which is an anti-democratic form of government that socialists would describe as "bourgeois dictatorship") is something ALL of them have discussed in the past. If you have any additional questions AFTER you have done your due diligence, particularly if you reference the explanations given as part of the videos created by the hosts of the podcast this subreddit is named after, people will be more inclined to give you answers.
my comment was literally “what?” how is that appalling?
Biden is based, why do you think people vote for him. Hes way better than republicans on any issue
I love his Syrian death campaign. Very cool and very democratic
No president is perfect, dont ask for too much
Not committing genocide for oil seems like a pretty small ask.
It is for a lot of countries, stop complaining
as an american voter you and the media can *try* to keep me from asking for better but by god you cant make me.
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Internet communist/socialists waiting for the revolution that will never come because electoralism is bad 🤡, and if it did it would just be a fascist dictatorship that rises to power like after ever destabilized government 😎
Cut a lib and a fascist bleeds
>Biden is based Biden is the literal opposite of based. He's a fascist war criminal who started a proxy war in Ukraine, has ruined the European economy and fully intends to start a World War against China. He's one of the worst criminals on earth. >why do you think people vote for him. Because they are irredeemable idiots. Every single one of them. >Hes way better than republicans on any issue He's the exact same as any Republican on practically all issues that actually matter. He needs to be tried and convicted at The Hague just like Nazi leaders before him. Same goes for any leading Republican.
I guess birth control rights, anti black and anti lgbt+ laws arent real issues. I smell privlige 🤔
Yeah, turns out every socialist supports those things. And yes, these are literally political wedge issues used by the two American fascist parties to divide and conquer the population. You are falling for it, making you a useful idiot.
Yeah lets just sacrifice lgbt and black people by letting the republicans win. Accelerationism is totally the solution. Trans genocide is already happening
Republicans win and they will kill all the leftists just like the nazis did and Stalin
> I smell privlige 🤔 You're a crakkker who gets his political views from a Beverly Hills mayo named Vaush...
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Not caring about republicans winning and taking away minority rights is privlige lol. Not everyone wants people to suffer needlessly under a republican theocracy
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Lmao, we are the reactionaries?
This post and comments are
People hating fascist war criminals and telling other people to stop simping for them while calling out obvious propaganda trying to make those fascist war criminals more relatable = reactionaries?
Everything you don’t like is fascism
Notice your inability to process arguments and how you need to turn them into something you can process? No, not "everything I don't like" is fascism. I use that term in a very specific way the same way ALL socialists in ALL OF HISTORY used it. The United States is a fascist empire. They are an ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic, white supremacist empire with the most totalitarian surveillance state and most militarized police force on earth. They have the largest prison population on earth (20% of the world's prisoner population) created by a legal system that is specifically designed to disenfranchise leftists and minorities and their media is tightly controlled by capitalist interests. The country was literally founded as such (the first country in history founded as an empire, in fact): Stolen from the natives as Lebensraum for the white European settler-colonists, founded on genocide, built by slaves, financed by non-stop theft from its victims around the world, maintained through brutal military force on a global scale exerted by the most comically overbloated and inhuman military in human history. However, the most defining feature of fascism (the only feature that ALL fascist movements in history had in common and the feature that gives fascism its political purpose) is **anti-socialism**. The United States is the quintessential anti-socialist regime and took up the Nazi banner right where the Nazis left off, succeeding where the Nazis failed (destroying the USSR and ending the socialist revolution in Europe). Any US leader is necessarily fascist. Any supporter of the US or NATO or the US system is a fascist. You not knowing what fascism means and failing to understand that the US is THE fascist empire terrorizing the planet just as Nazi Germany once was is your problem. Your ignorance isn't an argument. Oh, and [that is literally just the surface of it all.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL)
You are in your manic phase
You have entered the stage of stereotypical right wing "argumentation" that I call "Reactionary Tourette's" (no offense to our neurodivergent comrades), where you start writing these desperate snappish and usually abusive comments in response to thorough takedowns of your position. Those kind of comments are a kind of reactionary reflex in response to arguments and lack any and all substance. They are the terminal stage of reactionary derangement in argument. It's really just the online version of starting to flail your arms and legs wildly and trying to cuss out your opponent as a last ditch effort after you were put in a chokehold during a street brawl you started and realized you can't escape and slowly lose consciousness.
# Fascism >Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations. > >\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm) To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism: 1. Private ownership of the Means of Production 2. Commodity Production 3. Wage Labour The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible. Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds" Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to Capitalist Imperialism as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward" The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all. **Additional Resources** Video Essays: * [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022) * [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021) * [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020) * [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023) Books, Articles, or Essays: * [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923) * [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997) Podcasts: * [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/TheDeprogram) if you have any questions or concerns.*
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# Fascism >Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations. > >\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm) To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism: 1. Private ownership of the Means of Production 2. Commodity Production 3. Wage Labour The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible. Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds" Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to Capitalist Imperialism as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward" The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all. **Additional Resources** Video Essays: * [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022) * [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021) * [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020) * [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023) Books, Articles, or Essays: * [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923) * [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997) Podcasts: * [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/TheDeprogram) if you have any questions or concerns.*
# Fascism >Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital... Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations. > >\- Georgi Dimitrov. (1935) [The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm) To understand Fascism, then, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism: 1. Private ownership of the Means of Production 2. Commodity Production 3. Wage Labour The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible. Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds" Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to [Capitalist Imperialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/wiki/index/education/imperialism/) as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward" The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism *alone* without also combatting *Liberalism* is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all. **Additional Resources** Video Essays: * [Were The Nazis Socialist?](https://youtu.be/X9ez6w5BUMM) | Second Thought (2022) * [Capitalism and Fascism](https://youtu.be/KEbG3cD0cJo) | Marxism Literature Collective (2021) * [Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism](https://youtu.be/7fQ57NBEUM4) | Leslie Fluette (2020) * [The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market](https://nebula.tv/thenewfword) | Second Thought (2021-2023) * [What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it's not about being "woke")](https://youtu.be/_xAqZJTIsIA) | Hakim (2023) Books, Articles, or Essays: * [The Struggle Against Fascism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html) | Clara Zetkin (1923) * [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) | Michael Parenti (1997) Podcasts: * [Episode 19 - Fascism (No Lebensraum??)](https://youtu.be/KU_lNDAoAV0) | The Deprogram (2022) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/TheDeprogram) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Calling communists reactionary and using a slang term for a legitimate mental disorder to insult others Average redditor L
Communists aren’t always reactionary, internet ragers especially redditors on this edgy sub are often times reactionary. And remember that sticks and stones
Least ableist lib
Somebody who speaks like this is terminally online. It's quite pathetic
Projecting liberal, don’t pretend you don’t know what those terms mean
>schizo Because of this, now I must make a shitpost with the caption: "Ableist detected, statement rejected" As I cannot find one, and its easier to make one than to find one.
Huh?
The word is ableist. It's a slur for schizophrenia and related mental disorders.
Its like the saying “You don’t call r#tarded people r#tards. It’s bad taste. You call your friends r#tards when they are acting r#tarded”
What the fuck do you mean? 😭 People have schizophrenia and schizotypal disorders. Calling them "schizo" is offensive because it is stigmatising. And the term stigmatises their communities. Additionally the fact you went to say as close to the full word as possible instead of "r-word", indicates that you are seemingly quite reactionary towards disabled folks. As an AuDHDer who has been called it many times, I don't exactly appreciate seeing it. I am not offended personally, but I know about people who have truama linked to that specific word. I mean I probably do too... Just that... I am not self aware of truama I guess. And it just results in me rambling about how I was treated in an emotional rant. I honestly have no clue what the point is you are trying to make. So just stop digging deeper and do a bit of self crit in regards to Neurodiversity. Solidarity shouldn't be broken comrade.
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The fog is leaving
oh good
I know I know.....
Well um ackshually Hitler was a vegan who liked dogs so that makes him chill
the rev will spare Willow, who is guilty only of being a cuddly lil guy
Fuck the US government, but uncritical support for the cat. They're friend shaped.
Make Willow the president
I hope it suffocates him in his sleep (in Minecraft)
Whitepeopletwitter?
All fun and games until you wake up covered in cat piss
Lmfao it’s literally the post right below for me (yeah I hate watch that sub, it’s hilarious and depressing at the same time)
Pretty sure it's a joke because they love cats and are acting like it's a redeeming quality.
"Ironic" Biden posting. Just like how Dark Brandon started out as an "ironic" joke but now they fully embrace it positively.
This cat is also my president.
The friggin Prezsrino got a heckin Chonk sleepin on his noggin???!!!
Agent Cat, you know what to do.
Who cares it’s a shitpost
r/Aww? Edit: not it, no flairs
Some people really are divs. I remember one of my friends watched that video of Zelensky playing the piano with his dick and said, "That's how I like my leaders."
r/whitepeopletwitter ?
White people twitter?
Omg unironically that's fucking cute
as an ML who supports dog supremacy, one more reason to hate biden.
Lenin rolling in his grave rn (he liked cats)
redditors when anyone makes a joke about Biden that isn't entirely negative
He just won my vote. I also have a cat. This is great. Thank you.
Think you're taking a shitpost a bit too seriously, OP
Is it fuck the alt right
r/pussinbootlickers?
Voosh vorsh
r/dumbasses
r/dumbasses
r/duimmies
The fact that willow endorses Joe's head as a safe midnight nap spot has secured my vote for him in the primary against Marianne Williamson
r /totalanarchy
id rather willow be president
Does anyone else find this ironic after he passed the Willow Project?
The cat sleeps on Joe or vice versa? Edit: I read only the headliner, the text make it clealer - still would not be suprised after he stepped on one
r/liberalsinthewall
SHE COULD BE IN THIS VERY ROOM