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[split] Rise Of Tribalism, Racism & Bigotry Most Associated With Which Turning & Why? - YARTed
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(05-07-2019, 05:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:
(05-07-2019, 10:55 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: On the old Forum he really was a Stalinist.  He denied Stalin's crimes and suggested that Stalinist economics were the best hope for Humanity.

Have you ever read Eric Hoffer's The True Believer? It exposes the moral emptiness of extremists and the ease of going from one anti-human ideology to another. I start with his observation about opposites:

Quote:The opposite of a raging fascist is not a raging communist. The opposite of a raging fascist is a sober liberal.


Many fascists were extreme Leftists before going to the ultra-nationalist, elitist Right. In view of The True Believer, it is not so surprising that a neo-Nazi becomes a member of ISIS, that a former head of the French Communist Party became a leading member of a collaborationist party in Vichy France, or that brutal enforcers of such fascist cliques (Hlinka Guard, Arrow Cross, iron Guard, and Ustase) became enforcers for Commie rule. The dreaded Nazi "hanging judge" Roland Friesler had been a toady of the Bolsheviks while a prisoner during the Bolshevik Revolution (he had been captured by the tsar's armies); one Nazi official had said of him "Friesler is our Vishinsky!", referring to the leading judge of Stalin's purge trials. One of the people executed with Mussolini at the end of World War II As a gay black man, Kinsler can of course never become a Nazi or a Ku Kluxist, for obvious reasons.

The extremist is usually ruthless, emotionally hollow, and amoral; as a substitute for morality he chooses an easily-learned code that justifies his worst tendencies. Harsh measures against pariahs will allegedly transcend the will to kill, rape, steal, and lie; one's cruelty toward pariahs is charity toward Humanity as a whole.
You support socialism and you view socialism as being the best hope for humanity today. I don't see why you're upset about him supporting the same economic system as you do back then.

Because it wasn't his own particular brand of socialism.  Never mind that all forms of socialism, national or international (Marxian), have a tendency to degenerate into dictatorships of Party.
It really is all mathematics.

Turn on to Daddy, Tune in to Nationalism, Drop out of UN/NATO/WTO/TPP/NAFTA/CAFTA Globalism.
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RE: Rise Of Tribalism, Racism & Bigotry Most Associated With Which Turning & Why? - by Kinser79 - 05-08-2019, 09:28 AM
Nigger (take some responsibility) - by TheNomad - 05-11-2019, 08:58 PM

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