Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by lazyeye on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:29AM
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Im sure the foot soldiers of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot had that exact same purity of thought, the exact same infallible self-belief and the exact same absolute certainty they were on the right side of history.
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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by runarberg on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:26AM
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Maoists and National Bolsheviks are a really small minority inside leftist circles, you will have to look for a long time before you encounter one in the wild. And when you do, and if you are a leftist, you will most likely shun them. Racism is usually not tolerated by the left.
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by busterarm on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:47AM
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Varg is pretty much a textbook NazBol. Thing is people won't stop tripping over each other to label him far-right/Nazi before hearing anything he says. Pretty likely this is happening to most other of their ilk as well.
In the five years or so I spent hanging out with Socialist Party USA folks, I met loads of Maoists, including a former party chairman. There were a lot who were Trotskyists out in the open and Maoists if you got them drunk enough to talk freely.