• frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    And I’m saying that these two constructs have a tendency to be aligned with each other

    It’s not empiricaly right tho. Hitler and Stalin are the first type-examples. In the modern era it’s Putin and Xi.

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      8 months ago

      Joe Biden and the US military industrial complex are currently helping Isreal commit a genocide out in the open, and that’s your pick for 21st century Hitler? Tell me you don’t think Palestinans matter without using the words, jesus.

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      8 months ago

      Only one of those four is white, and it’s a classic reactionary tactic to downplay him compared to the Georgian and the older Han Chinese example

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        Equivocating Stalin and Hitler is some crypto Nazi shit.

        It is standard in Westoid discourse, e.g. the Wikipedia page on “authoritarianism” probably does it idk didn’t read it.

        People who use words like “authoritarianism” equate the two.

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      8 months ago

      I already covered the origins of this propagandistic Western conceptualization of “authoritarianism”/“totalitarianism” in another comment in this post. But I’ll add a 1955 CIA report that was unclassified in 2008.

      Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain.

      • dachshundwithadesktop [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        8 months ago

        I already covered the origins of this propagandistic Western conceptualization of “authoritarianism”/“totalitarianism” in another comment in this post

        This is off topic, but I want to mention for the sake of other hexbears that I’m glad you linked to this other comment you made. It’s a good comment but no one on hexbear can see it or anything else in that reply chain. Since you were replying to someone from an instance not federated with us, it’s just not visible. A reminder that the exact same thread can look completely different depending on what instance you’re reading it from.