11-13-2016, 06:52 PM
kinser --
You are a roast-beef Communist: a fascist on the outside and a Commie on the inside. You pretend to be a fascist so that you can get some privileges in a rotten social order that you undermine by making ever worse for most people. I forget what the opposite is -- someone Red on the outside and brown or black (fascist) on the inside, someone who says much that sounds Bolshevik but barely covers racism and ultra-nationalism.
I prefer honest-to-Lenin Marxists who have some philosophical consistency and even an overt fascist who leaves no question of his vileness to those perverse hybrids.
You are a roast-beef Communist: a fascist on the outside and a Commie on the inside. You pretend to be a fascist so that you can get some privileges in a rotten social order that you undermine by making ever worse for most people. I forget what the opposite is -- someone Red on the outside and brown or black (fascist) on the inside, someone who says much that sounds Bolshevik but barely covers racism and ultra-nationalism.
I prefer honest-to-Lenin Marxists who have some philosophical consistency and even an overt fascist who leaves no question of his vileness to those perverse hybrids.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.