woodenghost

A core conviction of fascists is, that someone else should have to suffer for their situation to get better. And they consciously choose the objectively evil, though easy way to make that happen: inflict the suffering on vulnerable people. This is easier then targeting powerful people and actually works shorterm, so no point arguing against it. German fascists for example benefitted immensely from forced labor and stealing belongings of their victims.

You can only try to convince them about mid and long-term effects (contradictions in capitalism aren't solved, crisis will happen, fascism constantly needs new victims and becomes a death cult which ultimately destroys itself every time).

But it's not just about rational arguments. To overcome their racism and bigotry, they need to reconnect with their ability to feel empathy for people they see as "others". The problem is, that they deliberately and selectively killed it off and that's not easy to reverse.

Without empathy, they could eventually agree with your arguments, but still just not care that much. Like: "Okay, maybe Israel is doing genocide in Gaza, sounds kind of bad, but... eh, whatever." That's literally the collective reaction of western civilization.

One thing, that's sure to ignite empathy and to slowly erode racism is personal friendship with someone from the group they hate. But it's dangerous, takes forever and it's probably impossible for most people.

Any other idea how to do it? Actual praxis in common struggle somehow? If it's former friends or family, there might be emotional common ground to build on.

As a mass tactic, maybe a campaign that centers solidarity and empathy in propaganda. And maybe mixed with measured violence, because some people need to feel their victims fight back to realize that they're human too.

Sorcerer maybe, because of charisma?

They never say: "If you don't like how the resistance operates, why don't you join it and try to change it from the inside?"

Thanks for sharing. It's not bad, except for the lack of class analysis. Assuming the Democrats are principled and will always be opposed to fascism, is sadly wrong. They are exactly like those conservatives who always prefer fascism to socialism.

I think it's more about fighting imperialism were you actually can fight it, you know, in your own country. Everything else is performative at best and often just support for the empire to protect ones own privilege.

I remember a point, where I was like:"I already know capitalism is bad, why do I need to learn this complex shit on top of it? Is dialectics even real? Marx and Engels probably just read too much Hegel." Now I try to explain Engels three laws to my bookclub in the first session and frame everything in terms of contradictions. I still have a lot to learn though.

In the Red autumn,

brittle leafs fall. Just like the

shareholder value.

Saved! I'll show this to people, if it ever comes up.

In Germany, libs don't support Palestine.

The history of philosophy without any gaps.

It's a very comprehensive podcast on European philosophy and philosophy in the Islamic world, including Jewish philosophy. It starts with the pre-socratics and is now up to Descartes. There are also three spin-off podcasts on African, Indian and Chinese philosophy.

Russia being messed up doesn't contradict the meme at all. People in the imperial core can be happy, every time comrades in Russia (or Ukraine) have a success against their government and their oligarchy. But the best thing every anti-imperialist can do, is fight the imperialists they can actually fight: the ones in their own country. If you're in a NATO country, that means your priority should be to fight NATO and the US oligarchs who benefit from it's constant wars all over the world. If workers on both sides just continue to fall for the propaganda, they'll never stop killing each other.

I'm not just randomly claiming, that this strategy is what works best. Have you heard of Lenins revolutionary defeatism? It's the method, that made the revolution possible.

Have you heard of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht? They were both killed for their anti-war stance and their commitment against national-chauvinism. Liebknechts famous line was: "the main enemy stands at home", by which he meant the national oligarchs and imperialists profiting from the war.

until the system reaches equilibrium

That part was really emphasized historically, which kind of hid the underlying dialectics. If you only focus on the "synthesis" part, nature seems static. But now, new research is bringing out thermodynamics dialectical nature with the attention shifting towards non-equilibrium thermodynamics. I like, how such an old field can still change and grow. By the way, they are also shifting to new definitions of entropy as observer dependent.