JuneFall [none/use name] @ JuneFall @hexbear.net

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They are merely the high priests of capitalism. The master of capitalism is Capital itself.

Yeah, that is something Marx would have agreed with.

do we need to convince beavers to stop building dams?

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No more half measures Walter

Absolutely. Those "living beyond their means" people would be hit by it, too.

The real good IT co workers I had were all from the GDR. The good other ones often were libertarian and scared of collective action as they are not used to work together with others, except under an umbrella of nice-ness in which conflicts are not dealt with.

"market forces" or just "market"

Other funny options: "Constitution, founding fathers, individual rights, liberty, 'he', just war"

My first philosophy paper I started with an appeal to human nature and rightfully the prof did destroy that with big bold red markings. I did use the snappy start since I learned from the Economist and the big newspapers, be it Die Zeit or some Anglosphere ones that it is interesting and intellectual to do it.

It is mostly used to strengthen hegemonic ideology, it isn't scientific and many people using it have no clue about what "natural" is and neither do they have concepts about what did happen in pre-history, but they think they do - as I did, too. It is a scourge.

And by the way, Marx and Engels did raise money for the Ottoman Empire.

Glad to learn, can you give me a citation for that? I didn't find anything after having searched for 15 minutes.

CW

For the suits neck ties were part of the dienstanzug uniform for regular use. For most of the battle units the battle suit was used, which didn't contain neck ties.

The SS did switch to grey regular suits to look more like the traditional Weimar and Prussian military, even though plenty of them were not part of military units. In terms of fighting capabilities the SS units were bad. However they commonly were used for non fighting capabilities and to terrorize/exterminate defenseless people or "partisans".

I am not quite sure what kind of equipment and dress volunteer units got, as this did depend on the time in the war. The regular case was that they would get regular Waffen-SS uniforms, however not always with the regular suit. In any case the order was to privately acquire and pay for such things. In 1941 when the person that was applauded joined he likely got a regular dress uniform and as such a neck tie, too.

As the volunteer units were also part of propaganda goals, they had regular suits, just like other (Waffen-)SS units. Later on they sometimes did only get the battle uniforms and in the end very reduced parts were used. There were a couple of variations, but nothing that ought to apply here. So it might've been the case that he did in fact get a Nazi neck tie, but not the good kind

so from their perspective it is related.

Which is everything I wrote, including Nazi apologia and diminishing the Holocaust.

To me it looks pretty clear cut that they are referring to the Nazis and are implying that both Tankies and Nazis are authoritarians, which is why they used that word instead of Tankie. You do you though.

Why do they refer the Nazis and their genocide at all? The comment above it is about "authoritarian" communists. Why would you then write about Nazi genocide after communists are mentioned?

Lenin worked with Germany and took resources from them. Marx raised money for the Ottomans. Yes, it in fact does mean opposing your own empire by supporting its opponents (and getting supported by its opponents, in Lenin's case) and sabotaging your own empire.

The question is who you support though, and revolutionary socialists, including Lenin, didn't give money to the Tsar, Metternich, or George V. They sought out different avenues. Supporting revolutionary groups, articles, only in limited cases sabotages, some criminal acts which disturbed the military supply chains and agitation within the military.

This is a far cry from thinking it is enough to be public about critical support of governments online. The latter would be the equivalent of :vote: for anti-imperialists. The former a principled response that actually figures out what the critical means.

revolutionary defeatism means critically supporting the opponents of your own side

Lenin didn't meant that the SPD has to gather money to send to the Tsarist army though.

In addition MinekPo1 [She/Her] who said not all SS troops out to be sentenced to death is using sources from the Black Book of communism (which she likely learned of after hexbear users did challenge her views).

Why do you think they mention Nazis and Gas chambers when the comment about it was about online communists? Cause they try to imply communists would act like Nazis.

They mention the Nazis in relation to communists tankies and hexbear though.

So what the person calms down is that lemmy might get a tankie free fork. So I stay with my reading of it.

If you look at campaigns it is easier to organize younger union members and the trend in small areas in Germany is positive. It is true that from the 80s till after the end of history union membership was falling very fast. However now new members can be kinda easily be won - even though class consciousness is lacking. This is true also for people with Ausbildung / Vocational training, who were harder to organize 20 years ago.

I do agree with a lot of what is said, but want to underline that this was the perspective of a likely older left person, who was likely part of resistance to revolutionary intersectionality (in contrast to liberal one). However of course not having mass organizations and millions in financing and expropriations against the left means that you will have it harder.

While squats are good and you had a good left support - even after the German Herbst - in the mainstream society you did not really have stuff like DWEnteignen or a principled fight against the end of Wohngemeinnützigkeit, those things and how gentrification relates to capitalism was something that had to be worked out for the public conscious after the reunification. Even plenty of the left did decry the Neue Heimat instead of defending it and framing the argument as attack against collective partial solutions. The split between migrant workers (who were often not really allowed in established unions - and who did awesome stuff i.e. Ford Streik 1973) is also less prominent now than it was, however racists are more upfront than they once were in some way (and are less upfront than in earlier times). In the early 90s I was part of a leftist group in which there was a discussion whether gay members ought to be allowed to be visible not hetero passing or if this would be bad for communist organizing in the Neue Länder.

Relative to the very good strength East socialized left people had in the early 90s (without economic base for it though) we are much worse off. But the trend is positive once again, different than in the early 2000s.

CW

Typically they misrepresent heavily what people say, or make themselves be out to be victims. Like the US soldier who claimed he was attacked for stuff, but turns out people just said he was scum for serving in the imperialist military.

In this case however it seems to be both a bit misleading context and them not understanding that Carcosa was quoting from the linked article (since most people don't read linked sources):

The post with the screenshot: https://lemm.ee/post/9279694

The post in which Carcosa did post: https://lemmy.ml/post/5413589?scrollToComments=true

This is one of the comments in the thread Carcosa posted. Sounds for me like a bit of holocaust denial and implying Russia is committing an organized Nazi like genocide.

@Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
Hey families, come on over to our um… kids camp… and while you’re here, can you help us inspect our walk-in ovens? Does is smell like a gas leak in there?

That however isn't made out to be a problem by lemm.ee or lemmy.world users.

However equating Nazis with Russian officials is common:

Imagine if Goebbels told you, as a Jew that if you wanted your kids back all you had to do was travel to Berlin. Pinky promise! Of course you wouldn’t even give it a second to consider. You would know it was complete bullshit.

Which also ignores that plenty of parents did actually get together with their kids and died in camps together. Not only Janusz Korczak.

To contrast look at the thread in which the Italian state targets children of our LGBTQ* comrades and allies: https://lemmy.ml/post/3689846?scrollToComments=true

Again since political vocabulary is very limited or leading those things are not a problem for lemm.ee I do understand why Carcosa is quoting as much from the article (though ">" makes stuff more easy to read), but I disagree with their content. I do also understand that the fight to not trust Western propaganda against Russia during war times often leads to more correct takes. Still doesn't cancel out the fake news and organized propaganda by some lemm.ee users and alike.

May have a gun

Really US cop propagandists, really?