Do they think the Catalan Anarchists had no bourgeois blood on their hands? Do they think the Makhnovites never executed counterrevolutionaries? Fucking idiots. I preferred it when anarchists actually threw pipe bombs.

  • @LarkinDePark
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    177 months ago

    Most Trots I know are the real deal, not just knowingly spoofing. They’re usually well meaning, just misled and unable to get past their western indoctrination.

    • relay
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      117 months ago

      I don’t understand Trots. They don’t like the USSR but they seem to be supportive of most other socialist projects other than China.

      Its also wierd that many neocons used to be trots. Do they think that globalization is a way for a world government to occur so that one government can be used to build socialism? IDK

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        117 months ago

        It’s simple: does the state pose a political threat to the US? Yes? Then believe most of what the State Department says about it, just like they used to with the USSR (and still do retrospectively).

      • My best interpretation is that they see global hegemony as the solution to conflict by globalizing commerce and industry. Thus, they need a powerful state to wage such hegemony. I mean, GWB is the canonical elected neocon, and look at his not-so-small-gubmint DOHS or the TSA. Or conservatives general obsession with strong military and foreign encroachments. This put the neocons at odds with the libertarians regarding “foreign entanglements” – instead of entanglement, neocons see hegemony.

        • While not necessarily canonical, the scene in the movie “W” where Cheney presents his plan for the Iraq War as a domino fall to lead to further expanded dominance in the Middle East, with his prognostication that “nobody will fuck with us then.” The notion that Americanism is the world’s savior, thus, we must provide Americanism to the world, by trade/legal/military force as necessary.

        • @CannotSleep420
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          57 months ago

          It’s not too often we get mastodon users in lemmy threads.

          • @redtea
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            27 months ago

            Can we use these accounts to look at mastodon?

            • @CannotSleep420
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              27 months ago

              Kinda. I think mastodon hashtags can be used to post from mastodon to lemmy communities.

      • @LarkinDePark
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        37 months ago

        Same here. I guess it’s a confusing place to be, you feel like you’re doing well meaning stuff but because you’re ideologically brainwashed and prohibited from making logical dialectical conclusions nothing really makes sense.