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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 10:00:05 EDT Strypey

   From J.M. Berger's paper on "extremist movements" (quoted in a #Vox article)
   "For anarchists and socialists, a fascist oligarchy controls free market societies."
   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/

   1) Global oligarchy is a self-evident fact. Has Berger not seen the figures on growing inequality since the late 1970s, and the handful of men who now control 50% of the world's wealth? The fact that they're all white men doesn't prove it's fascist, but it sure is compatible with that idea. (1/2)

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 10:05:04 EDT Strypey

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      2) As both #NoamChomsky and #DavidGraeber have pointed out about "free trade agreements", they are neither about freedom nor trade, and they're not agreements, they're demands ("render up to Caesar that which is Caesar's"). As for "free market societies", as Maggie Thatcher pointed out, there's no such thing.

      3) Lumping in anyone to the left of the centre-right Hilerati with violent groups like Islamists and white supremacists is either stupendously lazy, or intellectually dishonest.
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      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 11:25:31 EDT Strypey

         in reply to

         3) The only connection between white nationalism and socialisms (including anarchism) is that when capitalists feel threatened by anti-capitalist movements that are gaining political momentum - like #PeterTheil and his fellow anti-democratic "neo-reactionaries" - , they use white nationalism to distract and misdirect people who might otherwise have join the anti-capitalist movements, and get them to fight against their class and their own interests. This is also how the Nazis happened. (3/2)