As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.
Source: Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism – scheerpost.com
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The Dangerous, Degenerate Dems: Pied Piper 2022 and Other Forms of Complicity
Never underestimate the cynical, fascism-complicit depravity of the dismal, disingenuous and dollar-drenched Dems – the Weimar Democratic Party of “inauthentic opposition” and passive resistance.
Source: The Dangerous, Degenerate Dems: Pied Piper 2022 and Other Forms of Complicity – CounterPunch.org
Germany’s Counterrevolution Paved the Way for the Rise of Nazism
A revolutionary upsurge after 1918 could have democratized German politics. Instead, the brutal repression used to contain that upsurge strengthened the authoritarian right, divided the German workers’ movement, and facilitated the rise of Hitler.
Source: Germany’s Counterrevolution Paved the Way for the Rise of Nazism
The Resistance Remains Hollow: The Weimar Ways of the Dismal Democrats
Again, and again, the neoliberal era Democrats’ cringing subordination to corporate, financial, and military-industrial authority (to concentrated wealth and power) has depressed and deactivated much of non-Republican electorate in ways that have combined with the right-leaning biases of the U.S. electoral system to recurrently open the door for the nation’s rightmost party to gain power despite its vast unpopularity. By giving the nation’s working-class majority little if anything positive to vote and fight for, the Democrats repeatedly reveal their progressive-sounding rhetoric as manipulatively elitist and inauthentic. More
Source: The Resistance Remains Hollow: The Weimar Ways of the Dismal Democrats – CounterPunch.org
unifying social democracy and revolutionary communism…//How a New Generation of Socialists Can Win Power..
The division between social democrats and communists is more than just a ‘lack of unity’: it is the original sin of the whole leftist movement springing form marxism.
The current left has seemingly yielded the field to the social democrats as the revolutionary faction is sidelined. But will the social democratic option prove a fatally compromised option at a time of planetary crisis.
The radical Left blamed the economic and social misery on the governing bourgeoisie and the ruling financial capital. Continue reading ” unifying social democracy and revolutionary communism…//How a New Generation of Socialists Can Win Power.. “
1848+: The End(s) of History 