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i-cant "Lmao okay I guess not then."

Or they'll be discussing politics and history with an (otherwise) interesting guest when the subject broaches Marxism, and you hear the same old, first-grader, thought-terminating misconceptions about "human nature" or "works in theory". agony-acid

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Edit: One guy remarked that the Nazis were a result of the October Revolution, which may be technically accurate because some White Russians worked with the Nazis, but he was definitely framing it in a "communism did WWII" way.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mean I think there's a lot of merit to say the Nazis were a result of the October Revolution. Historians like Enzo Traverso and Domenico Losurdo would argue that WWI and WWII are part of the same thirty years war, and that the fascists were the direct result of the communist challenge to capitalist supremacy. There was no other method aside from fascism to restore the Capital order in a place like Italy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh most definitely, I just think it's wrong to blame communism for the atrocities done in reaction to it. That was the subtext I was offended by.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Ah got it, agreed.

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