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  • What are all the factors contributing to fascism today?

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  • I will preface this by saying I am a novice and only started reading theory a few weeks ago and could be way off, but this is my current understanding.

    I read Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds, and two quotes stood out to me:

    What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power.

    Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a "New Order" while serving the same old moneyed interests. Its leaders are not guilty of confusion but of deception. That they work hard to mislead the public does not mean they themselves are misled.

    As I am British, I have been applying these ideas to the UK. It aligned perfectly with Reform.

    'cause the thing is, fascists, more often than not, do actually see and talk about real problems, but then they misplace the blame to further their own interests. See the short snippets from this BBC Question Time where the Green party leader Polanski replies to Zia Yusuf, a higher up of the fascist Reform party: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/10/zack-polanski-bbcqt/

    The capitalist Tory government spent the last decade and a half gutting public services in the name of private profits, but instead of blaming current problems on that, Reform blame immigrants because they have no interest in fixing the problem, they just want to be the one to profit from it.

    TLDR: The same factors that drove you to communism drives fascists too, the difference is communists want solutions but fascists want to profit from the problems.

  • The cubans have gusanos, the Chinese have bananas, and the Indians have coconuts. what term does your country have for the imperialist bootlickers?

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  • In the UK we call them gammons, because their puffy red faces resemble gammon (ham).

    Interesting how they're all food related!

  • EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

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  • Do hotdogs and fish fingers confuse you, or are you perfectly capable of understanding hotdogs aren't made of dog and fish don't have fingers?

  • EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

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  • Coconut milk has been called milk since forever and nobody's surprised a cow wasn't involved.

    This only became an issue when alternatives to meat and dairy got popular because these restrictions on naming has nothing to do with clarity and everything to do with mega farm owners wanting to crush the opposition to their racket. They don't want to replace "oat milk" with "oat enhanced water" because they care about you, they do it because they hate competition.

  • Greens become first UK party to acknowledge IDF as terrorist organisation

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  • Personally I see value in these sorts of policies not because I actually want it, but because it highlights the present hypocrisy and gets people thinking about what it means. Policies like this could indeed get people demanding the law change.

  • Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

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  • Don't forget the time they sent some signage to a Welsh translator, and they put up a sign with his out of office message thinking it was the translation...

  • Megabonk is a mega success selling 1 million in 2 weeks, after being repeatedly told to delay it

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  • Wow you weren't kidding it really is just a shitty looking 3d clone of vampire survivors

  • A noob question on the state and its 'withering'

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  • When I mentioned Lenin saying it begins to wither immediately, I was referring to this part of The State & Revolution:

    "The proletariat needs the state — this is repeated by all the opportunists, social-chauvinists and Kautskyites, who assure us that this is what Marx taught. But they “forget” to add that, in the first place, according to Marx, the proletariat needs only a state which is withering away, i.e., a state so constituted that it begins to wither away immediately, and cannot but wither away."

    Which comes from here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch02.htm

    Within one country, the state couldn't begin to wither away immediately because of the international threat that remains. But I suppose, if we are talking about the proletariat worldwide, then I understand how it would begin immediately.

  • Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

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  • I can't believe how delusional I was last year, thinking that finally Labour were in charge and this shit would end. Lmao. I have never been to a protest before, but I'm looking out for the next one nearby. So grats Starmer, you're having the opposite effect.

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    honeyontoast @lemmygrad.ml

    A noob question on the state and its 'withering'

  • A question on the Russia-Ukraine war

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  • I didn't know about Syria, but it doesn't surprise me. It's not the first time the US or UK armed al Qaeda!

    In fact there are a lot of similarities between the US and UK arming the Afghan Mujahedeen and these Ukrainian paramilitary groups. After the Ukraine war is over, I wonder what these armed and trained Nazis will do...

  • What nonmurder crime would you commit if all crime was legal for a day?

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  • I have it on good authority that this would start a new atom based religion.

  • What nonmurder crime would you commit if all crime was legal for a day?

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  • Sorry to nitpick, but nobody jaywalks in London because jaywalking is not a thing in the UK. Even at a designated crossing it's not illegal for a pedestrian to cross when it's red, just dumb if there's traffic.

  • Consider becoming a Labour member

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  • I'm afraid that changing leadership won't change Labour. As a party, it does not speak to or for the working class, it is ruled by career politicians just the same as the Tories are. They could never understand what it means to be working class because most of them were never part of it, and the ones that were have betrayed the working class (cough Rayner cough).

  • A question on the Russia-Ukraine war

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  • You're absolutely right. There's a lot I don't know, your response and the others have given me a lot to read about. Thank you!

  • A question on the Russia-Ukraine war

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  • Thank you! I had no idea about the Azov movement or its brigade. The links to Naziism are undeniable, I don't know why this isn't a bigger deal to the West. I tried seeing if Starmer had ever commented on Azov, but I can't find anything.

    To be honest that really threw me, I don't know how the Ukraine government can defend not only allowing Nazi groups to exist, but to actually bring them into the military? I think I understand where people come from now - it reminds me of the old saying about "if four people are sat at a table and a Nazi joins them, there are five Nazis at the table". If the Ukrainian government oppose Naziism, and any decent person should, then they need to take a hard stance on these groups instead of allying with them.

    I'm going to need more time to think and read, but I appreciate your response. The issue certainly isn't a simple one.

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    honeyontoast @lemmygrad.ml

    A question on the Russia-Ukraine war