he is going mask off Adolf Hitler mode recently (since a few years) and apparently it’s causing a split in the party with most preferring to remain cryptofascist lol. they don’t have any real mass support yet thankfully but still, sucks that nobody has killed this guy yet and the state just lets him do this shit.

  • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    its crazy how much lifting “anti-communism” does for white supremacists and nazis. imagine if these people couldn’t just launder their image and arguments by saying they’re “fighting communism/communists”

    if people werent brainwashed to hate communism 99% of right wing bullshit would just sound entirely unappealing to a lot of people

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          This kinda illustrates the utility of Holocaust denial: if you take away the Holocaust, you could pretty much just take Nazi rhetoric and it adapts 1:1 to a message that many people want to hear today, and if you make communists the bad guys in that story it’s even easier to sell.

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      Without communists they’d have no one to compete against for working class liberatory rhetoric which would probably be better for them, though the generation of fascist/neolib anticommunism probably helps too