Dear Lemmy, as you may well be aware, racial hierarchies and colonial empires are doing good in these early 2020s. In particular, in the days of the war in Ukraine, it’s important to point out the fascist tendencies at play.
Fascism and racial/cultural hierarchies are on the rise on every continent, from Turkey to Brasil, to China, to France, to India… Fuck all Nations! Destroy all borders, and long live autonomous Communes!
On the Ukraine side of things, there’s a bunch of neo-nazis in the army, as well as more traditional nationalists/fascists. It’s not exactly a secret, and the former president was very close to these circles:
On the Russian side of things, there’s also a bunch of neo-nazis in the army as well as traditional nationalists/fascists. It’s not exactly a secret either:
Both governments have long fought against popular movements and anarchist/antifascist networks. Both countries have neo-nazi/fascist militias parading down the streets and beating/killing random people. Just like France or USA have them too.
Don’t trust me? Check out the wikipedia page on neo-nazism. Follow their sources and make yourself an opinion. It’s very instructive, although very incomplete. I definitely recommend to check out the Racism in Ukraine and Racism in Russia pages, too.
Please remember that when you try to paint one side of a conflict as the good anti-nazi hero. Nazis are fucking everywhere. Fascists and nazis have been running the show in much of the world even after WWII ended. Nazi collaborators were responsible for France’s war against the algerian people, and their grandchildren (spiritual or biological) are responsible for today’s new repression, wars and genocides.
We need to dismantle nazism and fascism at its root: the nation State and cultural supremacy. Yes, you should be proud of your local culture and land. No, that does not justify diminishing other cultures/lands.
All we exploited/struggling people have to stand in solidarity with other people struggling for freedom and equality across the planet. No border divides us in the international socialist/anarchist movement. We will fight against all Empires for autonomous communities worldwide!
PS: If you need more detailed resources on neo-nazi/neo-fascist/nationalist/traditionalist on the rise in a specific country/region, feel free to ask. There are chances i have some good articles/documentaries, and if not i’ve got ideas about who to ask.
I feel like a lot of these people started showing up when it because public knowledge that lemmy.ml allows covid disinformation
We’ve banned so many anti-covid trolls I’ve lost count, which is why you don’t see any on the front page.
Thank you for keeping on top of that. the spiraling process of baiting long replies (some from me, oops), and just existing not being banned is basically validation for them.
oh that’s what happened to them. they had some crazy ignorant ideas. made for some interesting discussions.
thanks, i didn’t notice
I feel like a lot of these people are just marxism gone wrong. Add a pinch of stalinism, and a bit of leninist/trotskyist discourse, and what you have is uncritical support on any tyrannical power that’s not the USA/UK. In the real world, in the unions and in the squats, we call these people fascists (of the red-brown kind because they use red words to promote fascism).
I mean, just imagine going to your union comrades and saying invading a sovereign country is justifiable in the name of socialism. You’ll get weird looks and nervous laughter. If you add the bit about the persons leading the invasion are siding with oligarchs and having privatized the entire country since the USSR collapsed, you’ll get called a scab and may come home with a few bruises.
The one who is grifting is you, very well knowing Russia and China have been historically the main protagonists against Nazism. You aid English Fascism, and that isbclear from the Lithuania link you use to smear Russia.
Ok, historically the Soviet Union deserves alot of credit for kicking Nazi ass. Most of it, even.
China? Huh? Are you talking about the Japanese? They were allied with Nazis, and they were bad, but they weren’t Nazis themselves. And this is an important distinction, because if you refuse to make it, then “Nazi” means nothing more than just a really strong synonym of “bad”.
Given how much “bad” there is in the world, then nearly everything and everyone becomes “Nazis”.
The definition of bad is not merely a Nazi person, and Nazism and its proponents are a particular kind of evil, not a casual bad thing. Nazi or NatFash is something else, hence Duginism, while on paper seems Russian fascism, is not the same as Nazism or its end goals in practice.
Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were never the same as Imperial China, and Ottoman Empire was neither like Soviet states nor Anglo empire. In the end, this is false equivalence.
Then please explain the “China have been historically the main protagonists against Nazism” statement. I’m having trouble making sense of it. I agree that Russia/USSR was one of the main protagonists (if not the main one), but China?
I’m just not following.
20-30 million people each died from China and Russia during WW2, fighting the Nazism threat. This is also related to the “Black Book of Communism” lies that are often spouted to discredit the role of socialists during WW2, since Hitler managed to label Nationalist Fascism (NatFash) as National Socialism (Nat-Soc/Nazi). Hitler created the Natsoc/Nazi label to get votes from working class and differentiate themselves from monarchist conservatives, but in reality fascists were always opposite of socialists. The correct term is Nationalist Fascist, or NatFash.
The Nazis or their ideological allies in Eastern Europe never set foot in China. Did China send troops to Europe to die? Was there some little known front in central Asia that they never taught me in school? Did the Chinese employ psychic soldiers to fight against the occult Nazi threat like out of Hellboy, whose souls were promptly eaten by Cthulhu?
Russia’s a given. Everyone knows about that. I don’t dispute it. China? China didn’t fight the Nazis that I am aware of. I don’t feel like I’m alone in being unaware of that. Enlighten us.
Not sure what this means. If you’re saying that the two have conflicting ideologies, sure. Again, never knew anyone to dispute that. Even the people who make the comparisons are coming from a third and distinct ideology, which sees little functional difference between the two. They’re not equating them to be literally the same.
If you say so. I didn’t realize we were playing stupid word games where you think you’ve struck a blow for global Marxism by insisting that they should be referred to by a slightly different label, 30 years after most of the last of them died of old age.
This material might help.
Hitler creating the label Nazi in itself was always a grift to defame socialism forever in history, and this is something I took time to analyse and conclude after talking to IRL anonymous Nazis from Scotland, Ireland and UK and understanding their usage of the label and their talking points.
What I am attempting is not a stupid word game, but an attempt to correct the oxymoron National Socialism created by a moron, to what it actually was – Nationalist Fascism. The attempt to equate socialism to fascism was purposeful and came from a mindset that believed in cutting others’ ropes for themself to climb higher, while actually never wanting to make progress. This is exactly how a regressive mindset works.
That’s not wrong. I’m just pointing out both also have their history of ethnic cleansing and cultural supremacy. And i’m also pointing out that just because some structure did something good a while ago doesn’t mean they can’t do something bad (and vice-versa), especially given the major political changes there were since 1945 all around the world.
Please get educated. You seem to indicate either that the top-level domain of a domain domain, or a specific language, is an indicator of State-sponsored propaganda: that makes no fucking sense. And if you want me to post more links about neo-fascism in Russia, i’ll gladly put up a compilation tomorrow when i find the time :)
Please stop grifting with le both sides.
Maybe it is finally time for me to step up against grift. The comments were not enough.
From your recent comments:
This has been the core of what you stand for. You never “jump(ed) on any occasion” about what Ukraine did to Donbas in the past 8 years, and you always wanted to deflect what NATO did since the 90s, 2014 and now. Frankly speaking what you are doing is disgusting, and if I do not highlight it, everyone will believe your “both sides” grift in this instantaneous moment.
That zooms out so far from the specifics of the Ukraine/Russia comparison as to relocate this whole conversation to a different context, totally unrelated to the conflict that this thread is intending to speak to.
It’s true that USSR expended lives and resources at tremendous scales to fight Nazis, and it’s true that nazis and nationalists are attracted to military and exist in present day Russian and Ukranian armies. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive, and the historical record of the 20th century is too remote to offer any meaningful clarification.
At best it just invites you to make indirect, speculative inferences. We have much better, more current reporting we can and should rely on.
I think, as OP pointed out, it’s inherently the case that these elements are disproportionately attracted to armed forces, and that in and of itself is adequate to explain their presence in the army of any nation with cultural exposure to nazism.
That’s a diagnosis that’s relevant to nazism as present day social phenomena, and more pertinent to the conflict than the historical record you are choosing to substitute in it’s place.
Comparing the existence of Nazism in Russia to formalised Nazi battalions and Nazi influence in government in Ukraine is roughly about as honest as comparing how much USA/UK have done for human rights versus the atrocities they have committed around the world.
This discussion is a disingenuous and deflective attempt in this particular timeframe of events going on right now, to whitewash Nazism in Ukraine and the atrocities committed in Donbas in the past 8 years.
To prove that this is a disingenuous attempt by OP, one of the very first Lemmy comments made related to ongoing events was:
They only bother to point out the 0.001% existence of Nazism in Russia, compared to what is blatantly observable in Ukraine. And OP exactly did this by posting 1 picture for Ukraine and 1 picture for Russia, highly unbalancing the discussion on purpose because they wanted to bolster their point as true, when it is not. Anyone with a semblance of morality should see corruption in this way of carrying out dialogues and discussions.
This is completely all over the map, so I’m dismissing most of this as unresponsive and returning to the original point: I don’t think bringing USSR’s history in the 20th century is as pertinent or helpful to understanding the relative influence of Nazism in the armed forces in the Ukraine in 2022, I think OPs characterization relied on analysis more proximate to the present day and more directly related to social forces that speak to what is happening there.
You’re now throwing a whole lot of unrelated stuff at the wall all at once talking about things independent of that comparison: saying there’s “formalized” representation in the Ukraine army, bringing up how it’s a “whitewashing” and how OP is disingenuous etc. etc.
I’ll just note that these versions of reality don’t align with what I’ve seen in western media™, which have noted that those arguments appear to be emphasized out of proportion to their significance, and the backdrop that these arguments are occurring in, is one where they are functioning as a propaganda role in justifying intrusion in Ukraine, and have largely been dismissed by sources I follow that have commented to the NYT and NPR.
I suspect you’re just going to that that argue that characterization as western lies, and demand elaborate, point-by-point thousand word explanations, and insist that failing to engage with you in such a manner means I’m scared or whatever. I’m just gonna roll my eyes and move on with my day. That’s gonna be the process in disputing anything: I’ll make one point, and the subject will expand to cover a dozen new things.
The point here is that the history of USSR in the 20th century isn’t as relevant to the convo as you were trying to suggest it was.
Except Nazism is more than just an archaic relic, and is actively thriving and has deep roots in Ukraine’s institutions and military for a while now. I have seen your POV across Lemmy threads and know your stand already.
…which is exactly how significant the threat of Nazism poses to the world outside of US-EU hegemony, noted by this nice tweet chain https://twitter.com/non_philosophy/status/1498000420815396872