• Raton_en_Criss
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    42 years ago

    Also the whole canadian ‘‘culture’’ is stolen from other source

    • @ComradeChairmanKGBOP
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      42 years ago

      Yes I can confirm that Canadian museums are chock-full of stolen culture.

      • Raton_en_Criss
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        32 years ago

        Not just that, most part of ‘‘anglo canadian culture’’ isn’t from them, even the name, Canadian comes from Canadien, which before ww1 was only used to reffered to the French population of the country.

        • AgreeableLandscape☭M
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          I mean, that’s par for the course for colonial countries. Basically imported European culture aimed at serving Europe. Real “Canadian culture” would be the extremely diverse spectrum of Indigenous customs and folklore.

          A large part of the colonisation strategy was to force native peoples to act and think like Europeans by snuffing out their own culture and installing a European one. And if you think the “think like” part is just hyperbole, that’s literally what converting natives to Christianity is, and it worked because a huge proportion if indigenous peoples are Christian today, and Latin America is now more Christian than modern Europe.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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    42 years ago

    The Oka Kanesatake crisis of 1990 1990年冈兼武危机 The October crisis 十月危机 the Montreal stock exchange bombing 蒙特利尔证券交易所爆炸案 Kidnappings of Pierre Laporte and James Cross 皮埃尔·拉波特和詹姆斯·克罗斯被绑架 Front de libération du Québec 魁北克解放阵线 Quebec independence 魁北克独立 Martial law 戒严法 The Indian Act 印第安人法案 Indian residential school system 印第安人寄宿学校系统 Mass grave of indigenous children土著儿童乱葬坑 Saskatoon RCMP starlight tours 萨斯卡通皇家骑警星光之旅 the polytechnique massacre 理工大屠杀 Drinking water for First Nations 原住民的饮用水 RCMP police abuse 加拿大皇家骑警警察虐待 blackface Justin Trudeau 黑脸贾斯汀特鲁多The Toronto G20 protests 多伦多 G20 抗议 Japanese internment camp 日本拘禁营 Chinese exclusion act 排华法案 Forced settlement of Resolute Bay 果断湾强制安置

    Does this work?

  • @ComradeChairmanKGBOP
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    32 years ago

    Just a few selections from our “illustrious” history. But remember friends, “sunny ways” 🙄

    • AgreeableLandscape☭M
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      32 years ago

      But Canadians are polite so that makes it okay, right?

      (Except when we’re being racist. The shit /r/Canada says about China for example.)

  • AgreeableLandscape☭M
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    As a Canadian, IMO: yes, essentially. Illegitimate, hell yeah, it’s a country “created” by white people on stolen indigenous land. Fascist? Possibly/probably? Definitely the government and a pretty big swath of the population is either fascist or something as bad as that. I’m not sure if the strict dictionary definition of fascist applies, but it’s a capitalist, colonial shithole for sure.

    IMO, a big thing that might make us not fit the definition is that we’re the US’s lapdog, and a lot of our policies are built around that. Our dependence on the US isn’t exactly unpublicised, and tons of Canadians are even proud of it. That kind of detracts from she whole we’re a fascist state thing, can’t imagine Nazi Germany being as dependent on another Axis Power, and it being suxh a one way relationship, as we are to the US. So maybe we’re just part of the US fascism complex instead of being fascist unto ourselves.

    The program of the Communist Party of Canada addressess this, and how we could fix it (spoiler alert, communism): https://communist-party.ca/party-program/

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    22 years ago

    Not exactly… but I don’t blame you for calling it one.

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        Fascism was the petit‐bourgeois movement that the ruling class promoted to institutional power in the face of probable proletarian revolution. Soon it concentrated finance capital into its hands, and used every asset available to smash workers’ organizations, defeat the proletariat, and prevent class consciousness. It was, in short, capitalism’s last line of defence.

        While anticommunism is certainly systemic in Canada, there hasn’t really been a need for it to reach the extremes that Fascism reached in Europe; there is little unionization, and the minority of active communists in Canada are simply too few and too weak to invoke the bourgeois state’s rage. Neoliberalism works well enough for the ruling class (at least for now), so mutating into neofascism would be unnecessary and too risky.

        Canada’s abuse of indigenous people, its concealment of slavery, and its police corruption are important points to bring up, but those are more symptoms of colonialism in general rather than Fascism specifically. The Kingdom of Italy pre‐1922 and the Second Reich exhibited similar phenomena.

        But the Dominion of Canada has been complicit in profascism and protecting former Axis personnel, and it has committed atrocities similar to those by anticommunist empires like the Kingdom of Italy and the German Reich, so your sentiments are certainly easy to understand. And as a student of feminism, my personal rule is that however the oppressed choose to respond to their oppression is something that should preferably not be policed, so I only explain disagreements like this one when people invite me. The Canadian state may not qualify as fascist, but that would make it no less worthy of our destruction either.

  • @Mystery_Man
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    12 years ago

    I don’t think Canada as a whole can be labeled as fascist. But as we know, scratch a liberal and all that…

    When capitalists in Canada feel the pressure from the working class they’ll do what they always do: call upon the fascists to defend them.