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I'm pretty sure Nazis and Communists (which are the same even if it's not hip to say so) are just regular working-class people. Regular working class people are most people even if people like to say "middle class" nowadays, so most people just suck. I mean you have villain coming from the word for a farm servant and mediocre meaning bad for a reason.
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No. Most people who think that much about political philosophy are middle class. Poor people don't have the luxury.
Social class have nothing to do with evil. Evil is in the nature of mankind. According Zimbardo, evil is a social process, where institutions and power have a strong influence in the behavior of individuals. The Standford Prision Experiment is a small representation of how easily is for "good" people turn bad.
Last edited by Hope; 11-07-2018 at 02:00 AM.
Apparently most of the benign citizens and people supporting the regime had no awareness of the atrocities that have been committed.
In the mean time, they didn't bother to question the regime and rather went along with all the status/benefits that it had to offer.
In war there usually is no good or evil side, just two evil sides believing they are the good side. The allies even had a nation on their side that committed an atrocity roughly equivalent to the holocaust in the case of the Soviet Union with Stalin and holomodor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The victor makes themselves out to be the good guy and the opposing side as the bad guy, but they're just two sides of the same coin. The U.S. has been pretty horrendous when it comes to wars and their atrocities not even including covert indirect atrocities done by the CIA (nuked Japan twice as one example of a direct atrocity out of many), but it's human nature for the strongest nation or power to commit egregious crimes when they have the power to do so.
I suppose the only difference between nations and powers is the extent of the severity of their crimes, but no empire has their hands clean because to get power you must first get your hands dirty. Then once they get power, it corrupts the nation or empire. History has proven time and time again for this to be true for nearly every country and empire to have existed. So all you really have in the end is that X nation or empire is the lesser of the two evils compared to Y nation or empire.
The public just goes along with what their nation or empire does out of either ignorance of what their country has done (U.S. is a great example of that) or from propaganda that has convinced them that their country is fair and just. To think Germany in WWII is exempt from this rule because of the allies' account of WWII history is laughable. It all stems down to human nature being corrupted by power because society is just a macro extension of human nature.
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No. Fascism is NOT like Communism. Communism has traditionally appealed to working-class people, whereas Fascism has been a mostly middle-class phenomenon. It isn't a good record by any stretch of the imagination, but Communism at least aspires to be egalitarian, whereas Fascism openly espouses hierarchy in its stated aims. Communism is internationalist in outlook, whereas Fascism is unambiguously tribalistic and sectarian. Communism builds on enlightenment reason by embracing secularism (even atheism), whereas Fascism dabbles in quasi-spirituality and magical thinking.
Umberto Eco grew up in a Fascist dictatorship and wrote one of the most concise and illuminating descriptions of Fascism I've come across. He draws from his experience in Facsist Italy, but I imagine that much of it is transferrable to Nazi Germany.
The article is worth reading (again and again) if you want to understand the emotional appeal of Fascism and the fact that tyranny can emerge just as much from the grassroots as from the barrel of a gun.
https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf
Note point #2. Contrast with Marxism, which is Modernistic to its core and believes in a grand narrative. Unlike what that idiot Jordan Peterson says, it is illogical to associate Marxism with Postmodernism in any way that doesn't contradict either theory.
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Fascism and communism have parallels and differences, what they do have in common is the fact they are both collectivistic, and have killed millions as a result of that collectivism.
Of course they have differences too, I don't think anyone is arguing that they are identical, but people who emphasize that they are different are basically making the hypocritical assertion that "Communism good because cares about humanity, fascism bad because killed people". Lol. In fact, they both both killed millions of people in the name of some collective, so saying one is good and the other bad is hypocritcal.
No, it's because Communism and Fascism are objectively different.
If we're going to play that game, then there are also similarities between Capitalism and Stalin's shenanigans. Capitalist corporations are able to kill people and act with impunity (see exploitation of the third world) for the same reason Stalin did: absence of democratic checks and balances that contain the abuse of authority.Lol. In fact, they both both killed millions of people in the name of some collective, so saying one is good and the other bad is hypocritcal.
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Fascism and communism have parallels and differences, what they do have in common is the fact they are both collectivistic, and have killed millions as a result of that collectivism.
Uh kind of... that's how a lot of anti-semitism got started anyway. Working Class Goy Joe saw the Rich Jew get everything they wanted out of life while they slaved away for a lot less... and envy/hatred ensued. And it became way easier to justify treating them inhumanely to make them pay for their arrogance and being too rich/snobby... but of course it was the wrong way to go about it. Many Jews also view themselves as above humanity "You (goy) are the humans, we are the something more." Also "Jews are the sun/goyim are the moon." When people talk down on you enough, you can snap back at them.
It's not like Jews are exempt from consequences or the law. Pedo Jared Fogle was jewish... and is now in prison. Roseanne is Jewish and got in huge trouble for comments she made on twitter etc. A Jew explained to me once that when they do something bad they're actually held to a much higher standard than a goy.
We don't disagree here.
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Every incarnation of statist-communism we've witnessed was transformed by the host-country to be centered around the needs of that state or empire, rather than the globe. The USSR became sort of a new Russian empire, and in a similar way, China after Mao came to greatly value its own national needs over those of others. The only instances of Communism that haven't done this in some capacity, or have even succeeded in any capacity, were closer to Anarcho-communes in places like islands or other areas of the third world, which only collapsed due to external colonialism and never truly became corrupt from within.
When you hear a leftist warning of the evils of fascism and """"racism,"""" he'll usually sound the alarms of how crafty the "fascist" is in wrapping his clearly fascist policies in covert signalling and a not-explicitly-racist kind of appeal, even if the accused "fascist" says nothing explicitly fascist and mainly relies on moderate talking points of which some people are in fact true believers. So when an ethno-nationalist says something like he doesn't want to exterminate another ethnicity, just physically move them, you're meant to interpret everything he says as un-generously as possible, meant to assume that he's lying out his ass about his platform and psychically signalling to his followers to slowly take more radical actions; meanwhile, you're meant to believe that the equivalent leftist is being totally honest with his plans and visions for society, meant to believe he isn't lying out his ass when he says that you and your society don't deserve to be steamrolled over.
I don't like ethno-nationalism any more than the next guy, but there's clearly a double standard here in how one extreme is allowed to be portrayed versus the other. If you're to believe the left-wing claim that Rightists are either all explicitly racist or just racist dogwhistlers, you HAVE to be allowed to apply that same kind of standard to Leftist thinkers. I think this all ties well into an idea that a lot of Left-wing individuals have expressed that I can respect and agree with called the Death of the Author, that we can only evaluate these ideologies based upon the historical outcomes of testing them, rather than what they claim. Mein Kampf's claims of restoring one's people to a healthier state is as dubious a claim as one that Socialism with actually optimize resource allocation, rather than causing starvation. It doesn't matter what's on paper. We have results that show Stato-Communism has a death toll as high as Fascism, if not higher.
"Modernism" is just part of the new academic cult thinking that's become so predominant in our society, we think of it as odd when something contradicts it. Humanity sciences are nowhere near as rigorously operationalized as harder sciences and are far more vulnerable to bad data. While I don't fundamentally reject Modernism in all incarnations, you do have to acknowledge that the egalitarian, humanistic approach has led us to cognitively avoid certain foundational elements that determine if and how a modernist society can function, elements that won't go away and will continue to cause damage even if ignored, but that our devotion to Humanism makes us fail to address.
Yes and no. Every so often, a philosopher based in Hegel adopts the label. This is of it's nature, as communism is deeply rooted in Hegal's critiques of society, which directly influence Karl Marx, who wrote the manifesto. People like Marx gravitate to Marx's book, critique it, and move on their merry way.
Yes, I agree, which is why I consider Trump's supporters along that line, the third of his base who likes him pretty unilaterally. It's why I have type him, my father, my friend, and so on and so forth as the infamous INFp. Again, compare Vladimir Lennin to Trump, and you'll see a different side of things, a more intellectualist elitist basis.
And then there is Stalinism, and their decendents, my least favorite, and absolutely most loathed form. They lead to famine, violence, and tyranny, exactly the sort of thing communism was supposed to solve. Sadly, Lenninism has had one actual attempt, which really never lasted, and Stalinism kind of took over what is percieved as Communism. I will not disagree that Lennin executed people much in the same way Stalin did, but not on that scale and definitely not for reason of tightening up control, Lennin was much more moderate to Stalin, who I could definitely state is a psychopath. Sadly, he was really good at exporting Stalinism, so we suffer it today in the form of North Korea, who even aknowleges that they aren't communist, but Juche, their own thing. But yeah, if there ever was a more brilliant psychopath, it is that man, who successfully took an inneffective and inefficient system, and exported it to several different countries, many of them at least regional powers. It still impresses me today how well it worked.
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False. Working class intellectuals exist and have existed for a long time.
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