Sure. But right there they are pretty a large part of the mainstream GOP. I don’t really think the fringe of the left has ever even remotely managed to get anywhere near being in any sort of power. The people who have are folks like Sanders and AOC who very much want to help everyone, not kill the other side…
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I would argue they were/are just using “communism” as a prop for being an authoritarian. I.e., fascists in disguise.
But I must say I’m not really well-read or trained in this subject.
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I agree, but I’ve seen it in left-wing orgs coming from putative centrists and people who were especially privileged. It may be that privilege is the common factor in driving authoritarian groups, explaining why it skews right but isn’t unheard-of on the left.
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I do believe you’re onto something there.
Addendum: To me, the war is between the haves and the have-nots, with money and equality being the major things that HNs don’t have. Everything else is just created to divert people’s attention from that, IMNSHO.
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Migraine warning for standard web design:
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I vaguely recall the use of “no go area” to stoke xenophobic fears among daily mail readers-- “here’s a piece of merrie old england that has been turned over to the new caliphate!”
But, there is a rival definition that puts this sort of agitprop in perspective.
The notion of ‘national liberated zones’ (no-go-areas) has appeared in the dis- course of right-wing extremist groups in Germany since the 1990s [Wagner 1998]. These zones were first mentioned in Germany in articles published in magazines, like Einheit und Kampf (no. 2, September 1990) and Vorderste Front (1991); [Jaschke and Rätsch 2001: 119], and in the magazines of the National-Democratic Univer- sity Union ( Nationaldemokratischer Hochschulbund ) and the Young National Demo- crats ( Junge Nationaldemokraten ), a student organisation of the NPD. According to a main article in Einheit und Kampf , titled ‘Make National Liberated Zones’ ( Schafft national befreite Zonen ), it is the objective of right-wing extremists to take control of different parts of towns, such as discos, bars, public squares, and other (for them) important public places. Attempts to take control of these places have so far always been accompanied by violence against those parts of the public that extremists view as a problem. Reading these and other extremist texts about no- go-zones (they will be mentioned below) evokes an association with the period of National Socialism, when Nazis battled to establish ‘Jew-free’ zones (‘ judenfreie ’ or ‘ judenreine Gaue ’). There is no doubt that creating such a situation is the objective of the ‘zone’ initiators today.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40505326_Right-wing_Extremism_and_No-go-areas_in_Germany
The atttached PDF downloads an entire issue of some Czech sociology journal. I suppose that’s one way to distribute a paper. It’s toward the back.
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The idea of “debates about immigration” is that it’s good for members of the in-group to “freely” “debate” unnecessary violence towards an out-group.
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Yeah, gawd ferbid they should actually (shudder) communicate with the Other, let alone about the fate of the Other.
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Kaczyński and Lukashenko, each escalating the violence.
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Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era.
Formally it has been “liquidated” for failing to mark a number of social media posts with its official status as a “foreign agent”. That designation was given in 2016 for receiving funding from abroad.
But in court the prosecutor labelled Memorial a “public threat”, accusing the group of being in the pay of the West to focus attention on Soviet crimes instead of highlighting a “glorious past”.
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That is not a good sign.
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Pooja Shakun Pandey is mentioned in this article
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“There is a very famous proverb that says that a crowned head becomes wiser. But we see it is not true,” she said on the Tele1 channel. “A bull does not become king just by entering the palace, but the palace becomes a barn.”
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“A so-called journalist is blatantly insulting our president on a television channel that has no goal other than spreading hatred,” he wrote on Twitter.
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The woman said the act had been a bad joke, Poland’s PAP news agency reports. She had been posing for a photo taken by her husband at the time.
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Just when you thought Twitter couldn’t get any worse, along comes Musk and his assertion that Twitter is “the de facto public town square”…
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