Dude, who even knows.

15th July 2022

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Anonymous asked:

In your post on Christofascism I hope Solidarity isn’t referring to the Polish trade union, because you calling them fascists is a classic Creepy Marxist move, particularly when you consider the possibility that many Cold War-era communist states were crypto-fascist regimes and the USSR as a colonialist empire.

They involved Christianity as an organizing force for resistance to revolutionary order, same as in the Vendée. In that capacity the Soviets could certainly understand them as “fascist” (and the Soviets had a comprehensible claim to be the official expounders of Marxism)

  1. intimate-mirror reblogged this from alexanderrm and added:
    Some people may not know what is being referred to by the Vendee in the OP, so here’s some context from a college...
  2. alexanderrm reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    That’s pretty purely the “everyone I don’t like is fascist” kind of fascism at that point, although, I assume your...
  3. kontextmaschine posted this
    In your post on Christofascism I hope Solidarity isn’t referring to the Polish trade union, because you calling them...