The fight against unjust laws requires militant protests, and the fight against bigotry needs to be relentlessly aggressive. It is a privilege to believe self-defense cannot be used to counter fascism in its early stages.
In the liberal mindset, violence should have been used only when Jews were lined up to enter the gas chambers.
Once Jews became political targets, violence should have been the first step. After the Nazis declared Jews enemies, they had the right to defend themselves with violence. A violent approach at the beginning could have prevented the rise of the Nazi party.
Liberals’ inability to grasp this will lead to more marginalized minorities dying around the world.
Militant protests should be organized against the removal of women’s abortion rights in the USA. The rights of black people and LGBT rights should also be protected by force.
The protests should be held in front of, if not inside, the houses of republicans.
These protests should be as aggressive as possible, creating an atmosphere of fear among those who oppose the rights of women and others. There should eventually be a tipping point when their fear becomes reality, if they are not to stop their unnecessary oppression.
A marginalized group does not receive human rights, they are stripped of them. The removal of your birthrights should be violently opposed as soon as possible.
Fascists use democracy to their advantage. It does not matter whether they are politicians or citizens, a right-wing politician will oppress both with his political power. Our ability to stop fascism will be limited if liberals do not exercise their political authority.
It is too frightening for liberal politicians to use their power for real moral purposes, so they won’t help.
Our politicians accept racism as an opinion and fascism as a solution.
People are imprisoned for petty crimes, but you can speak freely if you make a sincere effort to recruit people to your fascist ideology. Creating a safe environment for fascists to speak without fear is not only dangerous, but those who allow it are complicit in their crimes.
If a racist or homophobic person gets into a room with a fascist. Within a few hours, if they discussed politics, two fascists came out of the room.
To prevent fascism, liberal voters must take risks, including letting go of their flawed concept of democracy. Unless they engage in militant protests or suppress bigots freedom of speech, liberals and fascists are the same.
The right to say racist remarks only protects those who intend to use racist language. The same applies to all bigoted speech.
In a society where freedom of speech is unlimited, only fascists would benefit.
*Initially, they came for racists’ freedom of speech.
After that, they remove homophobic speech.
Afterwards, they demanded removal for sexist speech.
When they came for me I gave them a high five and said thank you.
Because I am not a racist, homophobic or sexist person. *
It is always necessary to respond aggressively to the claim that bigotry is merely a difference of opinion.
The methods used by marginalized groups should be more aggressive. The fight against racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia should extend beyond shaming bigots.
When an oppressed minority kills a fascist, it always does so in self-defense. Killing fascists is a way to defend ourselves from their ideology that hates us and seeks to oppress us. Instead of asking whether fascists should be slaughtered, we should ask whether they deserve to suffer on their way to the slaughterhouse.
I agree, more radical action needs to be taken.
The difficult thing is that often these right wing, fascist groups already control large parts of the state and often times the armed forces, and they work together with the bourgeoisie who have unending means of financing, arming and supplying them. And their opponents are often minority groups who have very little, making it hard to stay in the level of the oppressors.
Che had it right when he said that armed struggle is needed since change will not come through social democracy.
Liberals are actively midwifing fascism in the west. An excellent read on the relationship between the two.
I so completely agree, my only concern is, who in the imperial core is going to organize and lead this action ?
Really concerned that there is just absolutely no genuine bulwark in the west against more aggressive/repressive fascism just completely taking over.
Yep, now they’re spreading across the world
I thought I was just being paranoid by the steady rise of fascism. The second you call it out for what it is you’re labeled as crazy and unreasonable. I live in a province where a fascist was just elected premier and I’m at the point where I just want to leave. Maybe head north and stay there while the province I called home burns.
I live in an highly populated area where the governors election was narrowly won by the liberal candidate in a 51/49 split election … with a disgusting, deranged, and committed Neo-Nazi candidate who campaigned as such. There were millions of voters…
Pointing this out only leads to people either saying the Nazi candidate was right, or you should be grateful that the liberal candidate won. Saying anything else gets you painted as crazy and hating democracy.
The Nazis policies were insane. His lackeys already control the state senate and the vast majority of local offices to begin instituting local bills, but him seizing the Governors position and power would mean having to pack only what I could carry and leaving immediately for safety.
Liberal politics have doomed humanity. It’s horrifying.
Democracy this, democracy that. Didn’t Hitler make it into the government democratically? To me, democracy is complacency.
The European diaspora would had support the Holocaust and death camps if Hitler had followed the other European empires on the restriction of the brutal acts to the people of color and not made the white people suffer from the Indian Residential fake Schools war crimes against Indigenous children. Hitler is not more evil than other European colonists and only just made the colonizers suffer from their own savagery and twisted ideology.
Didn’t Hitler make it into the government democratically?
Not really. In fact, the NSDAP’s previously substantial support in the polls shrunk in 1932. The upper classes appointed him in January 1933 anyway; ‘liberal democracy’ had always been an illusion.
On the other hand, the Saar Basin was a microstate that voted overwhelmingly to join the Third Reich.
This is why I made the term “leftist at home, rightist abroad”.
“leftist at home, rightist abroad”.
Imperial social democracy basically.
Yep
Based, nothing to add.