Reminds me of this quote from an essay by Roderic Day - “When we proudly assert that we are for the individual over the collective, we’re essentially saying that some people count as people, and some don’t. At the heart of liberalism lies dehumanization; we should not forget that slave ownership was one of the original “individual rights” that was so fiercely fought for by American revolutionaries.” https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

  • panic@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m amazed. Oh, what shitty luck your family has had having to bear fascism.

    But it’s not so bad that you’re half Italian half Spaniard, you could be Fr*nch. You skipped it on your way over, what a relief.

    I’m not amrican, or eurpean. how could you say such a horrible thing to me. ban hammer! /s

    • SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Oh i thought you were american, where are you from?

      Hahaha indeed, both sides of my family lived under fascism. My spanish side were apolitical so they didnt suffer political repression under the Franco regime, although they did suffer the Civil War and the extreme poverty of the early decades of the Franco regime. My italian side were left wing and antifascist from the beginning of Mussolinis rule. During WW2 they often listened secretly at night to Radio London (a BBC operated radio broadcast to nazi controlled territory to counter nazi propaganda).

      In fact one of my grandparents best friends was a top member of the Communist Party of Italy during the 1960s-1980s and had visited the USSR many times. My grandfather also often worked with soviet and east bloc sailors and ships (he was into the naval import export business). For both of these reasons my grandparents were often spied on by italian intelligence.

      • panic@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        Everyone on the internet is an American CIA agent. I’m kidding. I’m from a third world country. If you dig through my comment history maybe you could figure out the exact one but for personal reasons I leave it ambiguous.

        But that’s very interesting family history you have. I’m sorry to hear that fascism got so close to your family.

        My family has never been politically active and my grandparents didn’t finish elementary school until they were adults with children. It’s wild how everything changes in a few generations.