I turned on NPR on my car radio on Saturday and listened to a show called It's Been a Minute. They were talking about how the 2024 election was a repeat of the 2020 election and what that says about the culture. I couldn't believe how glib their comments were. In addition to the anodyne content of the discussion, the tone and demeanor of the panelists made it all seem like a mildly odd situation that is not especially threatening- just as the Refuse Fascism podcast points out.
Yes, exactly as Perlstein says. When I'm in Iowa City, my tv gets only one station: "P"BS. I can't even watch the "P"BS "NewsHour" anymore because of this and because of their sick coverage of Gaza.
Cease fire yes but really we should demand that the US military be sent to dismantle the IDF and assist in the formation of a secular socialist and anti-racist state in Israel-Palestine. Of course, that happening would mean we'd had a communist-led revolution here. I think we need a communist-led revolution here. Sounds crazy, right? Here's something crazier: letting our imperialist rulers continue to run the world into the ground.
I think you hit it pretty well in the 7th paragraph there. People forget what a hotbed of Socialism post WW1 Germany was, and how terrified the governing elites in the West were of it. Indeed, socialist mutinies and strikes are what finally ended the war for Germany, and it was not a clear issue that what happened in Russia wouldn't happen in Germany too.
So 'Appeasement' also happened to align with the interest of crushing the Reds. And Hitler sure did within Germany.
My point on the earlier history is of course to learn from it in order to stop repeating it (albiet in different forms and in a differn context of course) here in the USA, which is vastly more dangerous and powerful than Germany in 1939.
Well, and the left/communist danger was seen as quite alive in the 1930s thanks in no small part to the epic capitalist failure called the Great Depression and the survival of the Soviet Union.
I wait with bated breath for your strategy.
I turned on NPR on my car radio on Saturday and listened to a show called It's Been a Minute. They were talking about how the 2024 election was a repeat of the 2020 election and what that says about the culture. I couldn't believe how glib their comments were. In addition to the anodyne content of the discussion, the tone and demeanor of the panelists made it all seem like a mildly odd situation that is not especially threatening- just as the Refuse Fascism podcast points out.
Yes, exactly as Perlstein says. When I'm in Iowa City, my tv gets only one station: "P"BS. I can't even watch the "P"BS "NewsHour" anymore because of this and because of their sick coverage of Gaza.
Nothing less than 'sanctions' (aka general strike) for a cease fire will get things going today.
Cease fire yes but really we should demand that the US military be sent to dismantle the IDF and assist in the formation of a secular socialist and anti-racist state in Israel-Palestine. Of course, that happening would mean we'd had a communist-led revolution here. I think we need a communist-led revolution here. Sounds crazy, right? Here's something crazier: letting our imperialist rulers continue to run the world into the ground.
I think you hit it pretty well in the 7th paragraph there. People forget what a hotbed of Socialism post WW1 Germany was, and how terrified the governing elites in the West were of it. Indeed, socialist mutinies and strikes are what finally ended the war for Germany, and it was not a clear issue that what happened in Russia wouldn't happen in Germany too.
So 'Appeasement' also happened to align with the interest of crushing the Reds. And Hitler sure did within Germany.
My point on the earlier history is of course to learn from it in order to stop repeating it (albiet in different forms and in a differn context of course) here in the USA, which is vastly more dangerous and powerful than Germany in 1939.
Well, and the left/communist danger was seen as quite alive in the 1930s thanks in no small part to the epic capitalist failure called the Great Depression and the survival of the Soviet Union.