• d-RLY?
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    The one wearing the Iron Cross needs to remove the Anarcho-Syndicalist hat and stop disrespecting those that fought literal fascists. Even the least successful anarchist in the Spanish Civil War did more than any of these boot lickers for their community and humanity.

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    I can’t helpt but see these people as a misguided bunch of guys. I don’t know why. Probably, and I hate to say it, because of their looks. They look like absolute misfits that found their way to a radicalized internet forum and shit hit the fan over there.

    I’m all for slapping fascist and stuff, but I think some people genuinely took a wrong turn by accident and can be saved.

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      The wrong turn is laziness and western chauvinism. It doesn’t take a genius to be a Marxist Leninist. It takes an honest person with a bit of humility. Some of the history for you not to see it takes an extreme effort of forgetfulness. Even if every thing they hear comes from propaganda outlets, for them to remain steadfast to those outlets means they have no redlines that can be crossed. They have no integity. I hold them in the same derision I hold the entire West in. There are no victims of willful ignorance. They are what they deserve to be.

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        I think we disagree on this, but I understand your point.

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        I know what you’re saying and at a certain point, a committed libertarian, fascist, liberal, etc, should be accepted as being committed to that politics.

        At the same time, anti-communism is entrenched in the imperial core. This shit is hard wired. And the more education one undergoes, the more a person reads, the more this position becomes entrenched.

        If a person does become interested in Marxism, anti-capitalism, or communism, they might pick up a book. But the introductory books and the ‘radical’ publishers are usually anti-communist. So the reader gets funnelled towards Habermas, Lacan, Chomsky, Zizek, or a similar figure. Even the pro-Marxist books have to be anti-USSR and anti-China to be published.

        Some, like me will pick up the right texts. But the common sense view that e.g. Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Mao were terrible monsters makes it difficult to admit in public that you even dared to pick up their writing. Even stating that you have read Lenin makes you an outcast. People look at you strange, and they refuse to listen to your summary of commentary. And you very quickly get the nickname, ‘Stalinist’.

        It took me years to accept that Marxists might be right and even more years to call myself a Marxist. I know that says something about me, but the capitalist propagandists are damn good at their job. (To be clear, I wouldn’t have been found at any kind of rally like the one in the OP!)

        Views can be changed. Even entrenched views. But it takes time. A patient Marxist mentor helps immensely. Thankfully(?) material conditions are changing, and this may make people more susceptible to Marxism.

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      Let’s be honest, tons of Western communists are like this too. Fringe ideologies are discovered through niche internet communities (like this one lol) and so it’s not surprising.

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      This exactly. There are a fair portion of fascist adjacent people who can be deradicalized. I deradicalized several of my friends in college just by talking with them and challenging their beliefs.

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    That fedora strikes fear into the heart of every PLA soldier.

    Every night, Xi Jinping checks for him under his bed.

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    Even moving one such unit of a guy sounds like a strategic level task, let alone dealing with a bunch of them. They probably can just position themselves at the barracks’ entrances and the while army will be paralyzed.