Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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"We must say it out loud: Russia is a fascist state” says Timothy Snyder, an American historian and author of books on fascism and totalitarianism.
A time traveler from the 1930s would have no difficulty identifying the Putin regime as fascist. The symbol Z, the rallies, the propaganda, the war as a cleansing act of violence and the death pits around Ukrainian towns make it all very plain.
The war against Ukraine is not only a return to the traditional fascist battleground, but also a return to traditional fascist language and practice. Other people are there to be colonized. Russia is innocent because of its ancient past. The existence of Ukraine is an international conspiracy. War is the answer.
Because Mr. Putin speaks of fascists as the enemy, we might find it hard to grasp that he could in fact be fascist. But in Russia’s war on Ukraine, “Nazi” just means “subhuman enemy”— someone Russians can kill. Hate speech directed at Ukrainians makes it easier to murder them, as we see in Bucha, Mariupol and every part of Ukraine that has been under Russian occupation. Mass graves are not some accident of war, but an expected consequence of a fascist war of destruction.
Fascists calling other people “fascists” is fascism taken to its illogical extreme as a cult of unreason. It is a final point where hate speech inverts reality and propaganda is pure insistence. It is the apogee of will over thought. Calling others fascists while being a fascist is the essential Putinist practice. Jason Stanley, an American philosopher, calls it “undermining propaganda.”
- great citation of the 1984 apple add!uan
- "The fascist leader has to be defeated, which means that those who oppose fascism have to do what is necessary to defeat him."uan
- is he implying that the west should go to war with Russia and call them fascists? that's fascist by his own definition.uan
- He said fascism involves cult around a single leader, "cult of the dead" (Russia's worship of WW2), myth of past greatness and then turning to war toyuekit
- restore national greatness...so "make American great again" basically.yuekit
- The photos remind me of scenes from Pink Floyd's The Wall.ayport