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A great, short book about this is Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti. Or if you’d prefer a short pamphlet about what Fascists are all about and how they came to power in Italy and Germany, there’s a collection of writings by Leon Trotsky called Fascism: What it is and how to fight it. Reading up on how fascism was further funded and used around the world by the United States after WW2 to fight communism is also a great idea, there’s the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins which gets into this somewhat and generally researching things like the Operation Paperclip and Klaus Barbie and the rehabilitation of former Nazis in NATO etc.

But a short version: fascism is fundamentally a violent reaction against socialism and communism (movements which seek to take power for the working class). It’s footsoldiers tend to be of the petit-bourgeoisie, armed and organized by the Big Bourgeoisie (capitalists) to violently destroy any opposition to capitalism when capitalism inevitably fails to meet the needs of a functional society. The Nazis came to power by promising to destroy communism in Germany, obtaining funding and support from domestic and international capitalists to do so, and making good on that promise by using armed force to destroy leftist movements in the streets and eventually taking state power and using that state power to unabashedly persecute and kill communists and leftists. The first concentration camps were opened to hold communists, socialists and trade unionists.

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You’re saying there’s a NEW England? Why, the old one was bad enough!

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I’m a Spanish speaker, I read the article and it checks out. Though “a good chunk” maybe an exaggeration, it appears true that at least one paragraph was basically lifted and paraphrased from the show. The article says that Milei’s communications director is a big fan of the west wing who has watched it between seven and nine times and that it isn’t the first time something in a Milei speech has caused west wing fans to get suspicious lol.

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Nothing about Xi indicates that he isn’t well meaning, and much more importantly the lives of hundreds of millions of people have been vastly improved during his governance as head of a dedicated communist party.

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Hey look everybody it’s the guy OP was talking about in the post! You’d think reading the post would cause a flicker of self awareness and this dipshit would pause a second and think about how much they really know, but nope! right into the idiotic talking points lmfao!

Never. Not one time. Never

They even did the hilariously self-assured while being wrong thing!

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Cori Bush lost her primary after a pro-Israel group spent millions of dollars campaigning against her.

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I don’t think they realized that at all, even momentarily. They’re just calling themself the one true conservative for not seeing the Barbie movie lol.

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