Many white gentiles will tell you that they oppose Nazism if you ask them, but it quickly becomes apparent just by listening to them that their understanding of the phenomenon is very oversimplified.

I would say that these Herzlians have more in common with the antisemitic provocateurs at Christie Pits than any of Kristallnacht’s victims.

“Let the IDF win, and f*** the Arabs! […] everybody die”

Wishing violence and death on millions of your cousins is not okay.

I already told you:

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Bill Clinton blamed President Milošević for the NATO massacring civilians.

Clinton said the civilian deaths occurred because Serbs were using civilians as “human shields” and the person responsible was Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

The pogroms (veritable mass murder episodes) that took place in 1940 and 1941, such as the Iași Pogrom, were publicly justified by alleged Jewish armed subversion against [Axis] soldiers.⁴⁰

Reading about the alleged Jewish attacks against the army in Iași (June 1941), some better-informed Romanians, such as former Prime Minister Argetoianu, recorded their disbelief in the accusations: “The [insert slur here] have no weapons.”⁴¹ Despite the antisemitic slur, Argetoianu was right. Romanian Jews lacked weapons and military organization, key elements for any armed resistance.

(Source.)

The agreement that the Jews of Kiev had to be killed in “retaliation” for the bombings and arson amounted to a diversionary maneuver. The [Axis] officers merely seized on them as a justification for the murders, which had been planned in advance on ideological grounds. The term “retaliation” was intended to create the impression of military necessity and thus justify it in the eyes of soldiers and members of the SS.⁸⁷

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One Sunday I saw some [Fascist] soldiers enter an Ethiopian church and ring the bells. Sixteen old men thought it was time for prayer, but before they could enter the church the [Fascists] killed them. I heard the words of these poor men: ‘Egziabher Yasywo’ (May God open your eyes to the truth!) I could not help crying, but the [Fascists] were laughing. The dead bodies lay for two days on the steps of the church.

(Source.)

Men whom Boaglio had considered fair and honest […] were ‘grinning coldly’ as they calmly shot the people running out screaming from their burning homes.⁴⁷

Accounts by witnesses in the Feransay Legassion district mention the use of hand grenades. This was confirmed by the French consul-general, who wrote that the killing turned into a pogrom: ‘They were killing for the fun of killing; they pillaged for the joy of destroying and getting drunk; they then set fire, through an imperious need to complete the devastation […] The tukuls, roofed with thatch and serving as houses for the natives, were burned; sometimes with their occupants inside, due to the impossibility of escaping before the forces liberally unleashed. Flame-throwers and grenades served to exacerbate the evils.’⁴⁸

[…]

Liqe Tebebt was shot and also fell, seriously injured, into the water. In his state of shock he saw that the major was trampling on the dead and the dying on the riverbank, and laughing at one of his victims who was in agony and begging to be given the coup de grâce.

[…]

‘After the three days of rampaging in the town, Fascist beasts who had returned from Holetta [military academy] with a truck tied the legs of Ato Ar’aya to the back of the truck. Before the vehicle moved, Ar’aya sang a mission song:

Heaven is opening for me to enter
– I will see Jesus there.
I am happy! I am happy!
– I am happy!’

Unmoved, the laughing Blackshirts told him that it would be better for him to listen to their song instead, and chanted their ‘war cry’: ‘Du-ce! Du-ce!’

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Neofascists: ‘We are going to be oppressive.’

Neoliberals: ‘Can you maybe try to be just a little bit less oppressive.’

Neofascists: ‘No.’

Neoliberals: ‘Oh, okay I guess.’

Communists: ‘We are going to make life more tolerable.’

Neoliberals: ‘SOMEBODY SEND IN THE ARMY! DEPLOY THE NUKES! SANCTION EVERYTHING! LEAVE NOTHING STANDING! NOW!’

You are more than welcome to recommend an alternative video.

Yeah, and…?

BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR NEW MASTER!

Hamzah Saadah says that there is a gay bar in Ramallah. (The IOF have probably flattened it by now, though.)

Wow… there was even one instance where he wrote the word ‘Nazi’ and another where he mentioned the head of state, but of course he preferred the terms ‘German’ and ‘Germany’ because those sound friendlier and downright neighbourly compared to ‘Nazi’, ‘Fascist’, ‘Reich’, or ‘Axis’. Most people don’t tense up when they hear the word ‘German’. You got your German shepherds, your German Spitze, your German pancakes, your German fries, your German lutes, your German biscuits, your German chocolate cakes. Those sound friendly! You hear ‘Want some German beer?’ and you go either ‘Yeah, sure’ or ‘Eh, no, thanks.’ You hear ‘Want some Nazi beer?’ and you go ‘Wait, WHAT‽’

There were some Jews in the early Soviet Union who harmonized Judaism with scientific socialism, and the folk who run the Minyan have affectionately described communism as ‘Jewish’, though my own familiarity with Jewish scripture, traditions and ancient history is too meager to explain why. Perhaps @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml can elaborate if he feels comfortable doing so, but I do know this:

In their propaganda the stridently secular early Jewish labor leaders used religious imagery to inspire the workers—passages from the Prophets on social justice, references to modern day Pharoahs and to the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery.

Now, since historically organized religions have frequently worked on behalf of oppressors, I unfortunately cannot blame the Bolsheviki too much for cracking down on them (which undoubtedly resulted in some collateral damage); this is largely why so many religious establishments loathe communism. Even today there are more than a few communists and other socialists who are antitheists, but I think that that is the wrong attitude to have, since religion (including organized religion) does not need to be reactionary. I would much prefer that organised religions be transformed rather than destroyed.

I hope that this response helps you. Perhaps you know a few Catholics who cherish Judaism and would be curious to learn how it is compatible with communism.

I have to admit, I feel disappointed whenever this community attracts negative publicity and it has nothing to do with me, even if it is only somebody taking something that I said so blatantly out of context. For instance, I eventually retitled this thread because ‘economic boost’ sounded less incriminating than ‘boost to capitalism’ and after I published this reply, I realized that it sounded kind of mean, yet I was surprised that I was unable to find anybody talking about it.

tous les régimes ML et associés terminent de la même façon, défendus par des tankies prêts à excuser des génocides tout en écrasant n’importe quel mouvement demandant de l’indépendance et de l’autodétermination, quitte à s’associer avec des fascistes qui ont, in fine, le même but politique qu’eux.

This is basically just a minor variation on the trope that we merely hunger for power (rather than wanting the power to end hunger). I’ve been around the block enough times to know that there is no evidence that I could possibly provide that this anti-Bolshevik would not dismiss out of hand, though sometimes I do wonder… would a generic anticommunist ever have the patience and interest in at least reading one of my many threads on fascism? Since I recognize fascism as a manifestation of capitalism and anticommunism, I suspect that the answer is ‘no’.

Okay.

The Saale-Zeitung had no major concerns about the fighting methods of the [Fascists]. Describing their actions in a retrospective of the year 1930, it found the positively connoted terms “will” and “storming ahead,” and the only thing [that] it criticized was that the movement still lacked “direction and a goal.” Thereafter, the paper was striking restrained when it came to acts of violence perpetrated by the [Fascists].

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I am guessing that the liberal press applauded the protofascist Freikorps, too. I’ll check later.

ETA:

In Berlin, workers’ councils proclaimed a general strike in early March 1919, demanding a formal institutionalization of the council movement and the fulfilment of the Seven Hamburg Points, now updated to include the dissolution of all Freikorps.

The government opted for military action in Berlin and the Ruhr. Noske declared a state of siege in the capital and sent in 30,000 Freikorps men kitted out with tanks, howitzers, and military aircraft. On 9 March he issued an infamous, and unlawful, ‘Order to Execute’ (Schießbefehl) under which anyone caught with weapons was to be summarily shot.⁸⁸

The carnage lasted until 12 March and resulted in over a thousand lives lost, the majority of them unarmed strikers. Both Vorwärts and Wolff’s Berliner Tageblatt endorsed the conduct of Noske’s troops.⁸⁹

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The workers’ demonstration, which in the summer of 1921 was perpetuating fascist violence by merely giving existing fascists further reason to be violent, was in August 1922 turning middle-class liberals into explicit supporters of fascism.

I sure would like it if all of the people who ever abused me throughout my life apologized for what they did, all of which was worse than demanding the liberation of millions of innocents… but I’m not going to get that, am I?

In my experience, anticommunists tend to be pretty terrible at managing time. There were many German anticommunists in the 1940s who thought that the G.P.U. still existed.