fascism and communism
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 1:13PM
Robert Twigger

Fascism looks to the imagined past for its inspiration, it is nostalgic and fearful. Communism looks to the imagined future for its inspiration, it is hopeful and envious. In the current era all groups that use 'nostalgia for a more solid and predictable reality' are fascistic, even ones that look fondly on the communist past. That they believe their own propaganda is neither here nor there.

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