Every fascist is a fallen comrade the capitalists got to first with the wrong solution?
Horseshoe brainlessness aside, there are certainly quite a lot of the opposite, Marxist/anarchist scholars in America who ended up swerving hard right as they aged under Reaganism. It’s pretty weird to me.
Every fascist is a fallen comrade the capitalists got to first with the wrong solution?
Not every one… there are lots of utterly irredeemable people in the fascist rank-and-file. And there’s no point in trying to differentiate which is which when they are marching down the street.
There is one thing that we on the left needs to take cogniscance of. The (so-called) “liberal democracies” we exist under only allows for the existence of two distinct ideologies - liberalism and fascism. It is only logical that when the one fails, people will attempt the other.
Moussilini was an anarchist activist first. But yes, some fascists are fallen comrades, but others very much aren’t. The ones who really aren’t love to bait the left so we waste our time on them instead of others who are more dedicated to change than cruelty
I mean, horseshoe theory can be useful, if you look at it more as “status quo adherence vs dislike of the status quo.” Whether you’re on the left or the right, you agree that things right now are fucked and need to be fixed. From that stance, it’s not surprising that you can break a Trumper’s conditioning by turning their ire from the culture war to the oligarchs that puppeted them, but it’s also not surprising that someone who was already against the status quo could fall for fascist propoganda.
Every fascist is a fallen comrade the capitalists got to first with the wrong solution?
Horseshoe brainlessness aside, there are certainly quite a lot of the opposite, Marxist/anarchist scholars in America who ended up swerving hard right as they aged under Reaganism. It’s pretty weird to me.
Not every one… there are lots of utterly irredeemable people in the fascist rank-and-file. And there’s no point in trying to differentiate which is which when they are marching down the street.
There is one thing that we on the left needs to take cogniscance of. The (so-called) “liberal democracies” we exist under only allows for the existence of two distinct ideologies - liberalism and fascism. It is only logical that when the one fails, people will attempt the other.
Moussilini was an anarchist activist first. But yes, some fascists are fallen comrades, but others very much aren’t. The ones who really aren’t love to bait the left so we waste our time on them instead of others who are more dedicated to change than cruelty
I mean, horseshoe theory can be useful, if you look at it more as “status quo adherence vs dislike of the status quo.” Whether you’re on the left or the right, you agree that things right now are fucked and need to be fixed. From that stance, it’s not surprising that you can break a Trumper’s conditioning by turning their ire from the culture war to the oligarchs that puppeted them, but it’s also not surprising that someone who was already against the status quo could fall for fascist propoganda.