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Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
The movement for proletarian self emancipation is at a low ebb, but in a testament to how stupid and bad the world is, Democrats, Republicans, and European post-fascists have ramped up their rhetorical attacks on the pale ghost of the specter of communism.
Anti-communism has always been the stand-in ideology for racist authoritarianism and it serves the same purpose now in a world without a global movement to scare the bourgeoisie. Liberals, attempting to stem a nascent socialist movement, would condemn fascism and communism equally, hoping to stamp out a nascent workers' movement.
We sat down to talk about how dumb that is.
Losurdo vs. The Category of Totalitarianism
http://awm.or.kr/bbs/data/document/1/Losurdo___Critique_of_Totalitarianism_(2004).pdf
On the false equivalence of fascism and communism
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/bulgaria-fascism-nazism-anticommunism-historical-memory?fbclid=IwAR3KlX0_S-giXERD9s2CvrOk-cV0KkKmhXckAjgxSgT0orSlFOrXWH7U7iA
Anticommunism in a world without communism
https://www.patreon.com/posts/anticommunism-in-28790447
The New Anti-Communism: Rereading the Twentieth Century
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