‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’s immigrant community
‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’s immigrant community
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‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’s immigrant community
Why this is happening: right-wing extremist propaganda on popular proprietary social media, and random people believing it and radicalizing themselves. Of course it's going to spawn more radicalized right-wing extremists, everywhere the propaganda machine turns its head towards (they managed to ruin USA, now they're trying to ruin Europe). Normal people will become more radicalized in the process. It's like a global cult and its propaganda distribution mechanism is the internet. Not everyone will have enough education or media literacy to resist this. China and Russia are the big benefactors of a divided and in-fighting West.
So what’s the solution?
There are a bunch of social media platforms that should have been banned yesterday. The second best time is today.
Education, media literacy and economic well-being for everyone... 20 years ago.
Class warfare! Waves of far-right extremeism arise from the misdirected discontentment of the working class. This discontentment arises from the internal class contradictions that capitalism produces leading to worsening living conditions from the constant offensive from the capitalists to lower wages and increase the amount of labour bought for by said wage. By blaming minorities the capitalist class creates an us vs them that redirects the rightfull discontent away from the capitalists that cause these worsening conditions to minorities as a scapegoat.
fascism is just one of the heads on the hydra of capitalism. So cutting it off will only lead to its reemergence after some years.
This does not have to be the end of the world. There is hope and being a doomer is cringe reddit bavior. So organize! Join an antifascist group in your area if you can. Join a union for your workplace (if you have not already) and better yet join a communist group / party / youth org.
If you are hestitant to do any of these things because socialism seems scary, read “the principles of communism” by friedrich engels or any other marxist book and you will find that communism is grounded on scientific analysis of our society and its opposing forces.
Mabye this comment is useless and im underestimating the amount that online discourse can change peoples views or agitate them to action but in so tired of the doomerism and semi anti capitalist “rich people greedy” that plagues lemmy so I wrote this screaming into the void for my own sake but I still hold hope someone actually reads this.
The solution: Socialism.