While it is good to extol strength of all flavors, I very don’t like the perjorative usage. “Soy” as a derogatory screams chudfuck.

Using idealized pictures of masculine physical strength to implicitly mock the “weakness” of ordinary women and queer people for existing is chauvinistic and reactionary.

The image bears no relation to the question you pose. There is no reasonable interpretation of that image as an abstract promotion of physical health rather than as a condemnation of non-hetero masculinity.

The picture on the right is a parade of gym teachers. That is not what the average Soviet man looked like.

I agree that appreciation of physical strength isn’t red fascism, but I feel like this meme is kinda mocking LGBT people for not being manly enough, so it’s red fascism in another way. There’s a reason the OP chose a picture with a lot of LGBT flags.

tl;dr, this image is just reactionary sexist and masculinist garbage.

as far as a know, one of the meanings of red fascism is from alexander dugin, in a late 90’s text he wrote proposing that russia become fascist because communism and liberalism failed russia, so the third option is that, fascism with the “red color”, obviously trying to convince former members of cpsu. nowadays he learned that fascism is a nono word and came up with the fourth political theory, which is the same fascist shit, but with slippery vocabulary.

the fpt crowd sometimes even refer to themselves as being left and socialists, but bellow that there is chauvinism, misogyny, racism, lgbtphobia and whatnot very similar to patsocs and vaushers, including vocabulary like using the word soy. heck sometimes they even claim experiences like soviet union but devoided of material analysis of what they were building and appealing to idealistic and reactionary concepts, which fit this meme properly, like the “su were strong because because of they manliness, didn’t dwelled in to gay shit, they were based”.

the slippery part is they may deflect certain accusations by claiming it was just physical preparedness. note that sexuality and gender has nothing to do with fitness, you can be lgbt and athletic and being cis straight and have poor conditioning.

and last point is that people on the left picture might not even be socialist, could well be just progressive libs, corroborating even further to shit scarecrow tactic.

another meaning of red fash comes from anarchists, because they were historically persecuted by communists. and the last one is some horseshoe bullshit that commies and fash are the same, violent people.

These queer people going out into the street are 100x stronger than any muscly edgelord pretending to gatekeep marxism as a strong white male thing lol

Promoting physical fitness does not mean beating down others fighting for their rights. Not everyone is 1) capable of working out, 2) interested in working out, 3) able to work out due lack of time/money/access to healthy food/whatever

The only part that reads as fash is using “soy” disparagingly.

These pictures have nothing to do with socialism or fascism really. Now the way the image is framed is stupid and really tells how the poster has never read anything and just likes the aesthetics.

Short answer, no. Long answer, it depends on the context and the implied message. Encouraging good physical health habits is beneficial for society, but associating physical weakness with inferiority while glorifying an idealized (and for most people unattainable) physique is harmful. This is just as true for men as it is for women. The problem is that those who make such memes are too young to really remember, and they have read too little history to understand the reality of socialist countries.

Yes past socialist states did consider physical education, sports and athletic competitions important, especially for the youth. But they also considered things like proficiency in mathematics, the sciences, the arts, etc. equally if not more important. They had mathematics and physics olympiads, they held national chess tournaments, they prized music and ballet (just think of how famous the Bolshoi is) and theatre, they had a deep appreciation for literature and countless famous writers. And the situation in today’s AES states is not that different.

Is there someone you forgot to ask? 😂

There’s appreciation of physical strength, and then there’s saying that you need to adhere to reactionary patriarchal ideals to be socialist.

You can promote the need for physical development and health without playing into the whole “the modern left is soft and effeminate” garbage.

You cannot compare images of two parades that served entirely different purposes. The purpose of an LGBTQ+ parade is a political protest against the harm to which queer people are exposed, they are not rigidly organised, and they depend on as many people showing up as possible. The purpose of an athletes’ parade is to get kids interested in sport by demonstrating the capabilities of the human body, these parades are painstakingly planned in advance and have a clear distinction between the show and the audience. You could arrive at the reverse result by comparing e.g. a modern bodybuilding show against a May Day parade in the 1940s

this isnt promoting physical strength they are being bigoted.

Much better ways to emphasize physical fitness but I admit that I very much prefer physical fitness and activity over lack thereof. Mao himself made a workout regimen for Revolutionaries to follow (I don’t recommend, it’s very old and outdated, if you started exercising according to that you really wouldn’t get that strong and would be denying SEVERAL muscle groups). Shaming people into working out is not useful, but we definitely need a lot lower Morbid Obesity rates in the US and enabling it is a mixed bag to me, idk how to explain it well