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is it naïve of me to feel, deep in my bones, that despite how bleak it is now, the Western Bourgeoisie are overplaying their hand (hexbear.net)

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Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were scared. It's too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I'm sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.

My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we're at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don't know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don't want to lose hope.

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[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 41 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They are in the decline and falling apart. But that is why things are so bad and they are lashing out so. An animal is most dangerous when it is wounded and cornered. And if they were secure in their power and position they wouldn't feel the need to openly flex and demonstrate their power.

At the risk of engaging in sectarianism and poorly quoting a half remembered Trotsky analysis, this reminds me of how wrong Trotsky was in diagnosing fascism. To my memory, his analysis was that fascism is not dangerous and can be ignored because it is unstable and doesn't have a coherent class basis. Not understanding that because it is unstable that fascism is dangerous and that not having a coherent base that is contradictory means that it needs to target an external enemy to maintain unity in opposition. Even if the Nazis could have won WW2, they would have ripped themselves apart and decayed in peace time without Judeo-Bolshevism.

[–] maliy_yastreb@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It was Georgi Dimitrov who said anything like that, not Trotsky (and even Dimitrov said "ferocious but unstable") https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm#s5

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Trotsky said, in 1930, "Fascism in Germany has become a real danger, as an acute expression of the helpless position of the bourgeois regime, the conservative role of the social democracy in this regime, and the accumulated powerlessness of the Communist Party to abolish it. Whoever denies this is either blind or a braggart ..." (emphasis his)

[–] miz@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

sure glad we can't do sectarianism, we wouldn't want to actually try to figure out who's right or anything