Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

    • sauerkraus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Since you capitalised National Socialists like a proper noun I’ll assume you are referring to Nazis. The answer to that is yes, Nazis were not socialists. Socialists were among the first groups targeted by the Nazis after attaining majority power.

      A bit like how communists were oppressed in the USSR, or how democrats are oppressed in North Korea.

      The U.S. was more than happy to conflate Marxist-Leninists(tankies) with communists because it made communists look bad. Tankies are all in on continuing to conflate their own ideology with communism because they understand that being proud of right wing extremist ideology is a bad look.

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        1 year ago

        Yankeeland is the most fash country, but the fash dont wanna be called fash, so they call the nonwesterners fash. Typical racist tactic.