Reading these horrific anecdotes I couldn’t help but be reminded of when I learned about the Third Reich’s abduction of Slavic children for Germanization. Doing some research, the similarities were striking: entrapment in unpleasant boarding schools, replacement of the original identities, lengthy separation from parents, punishments for speaking Polish, inadequate meals—the only obvious difference is that the German Fascists were pickier about the children’s ‘racial traits’.

Compare:

They’d call us ‘you damn dirty Indians’

German supervisors felt nothing but hatred for them because they were nothing but little ‘Polacks’

…to give only one example. I know that this is a little off‐topic, but given that the conquest of the Americas was one of the Third Reich’s inspirations, it would be very surprising if the similarities between the “Indian boarding schools” and the “SS Home Schools” were entirely coincidental.

I misread the thread’s title as ‘Get fucked Vichy’.

Chiesi […] linked his labor policy to a moral reorganization in this part of the colony, designed to prevent a degradation of the race and thus improve the labor force. A new law was to be immediately promulgated, in line with [religious] precepts, obligating men to work in order to prepare a dower for their bride or brides; it would remain with the woman in case of repudiation without fault.

Chiesi believed that such a law would prompt men to work in order to accumulate the necessary wealth for this dower and would serve as a deterrent to the circulation of wives from one husband to another, a practice that constituted “a degrading polyandry, i.e. one of the main causes of sterility in the women.”⁷⁸ […]

In other words, polyandry was considered dangerous to the genetic reproduction of the group. Therefore, it was thought that polygyny should be fostered because it was more in line with the free Somalis’ traditional habits and served as a first step toward the longer‐term objective of abolishing polygamy in all its iterations and establishing monogamy.

For this purpose also, “moral propaganda through example and facts” and practical persuasion about “the advantages of constituting regular families” would have to be enacted.⁸⁰ This was a prelude to the later policy in Gosha, between 1935 and 1937, whereby forced labor recruitment included the enforcement of monogamous unions, known as nikaax talyiani.

(Emphasis added. Source.)

That was a good question.

Sorry to hear what? That somebody rejected him or that he’s having a blast playing Baldur’s Gate 3?

Not to defend the anticommunists, who certainly contributed to the famine, but the causes of the 1930s famine were primarily environmental. Drought, infestations, and wheat rust had more devastating effects than the petty bourgeois terrorism.

It’s very emotional for them because they’re seeing European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed.

Excuse me…I…I believe you have my stapler.

Because it’s a Google service.

Did you already try refreshing the page?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/520580

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

He could have written ‘two weeks’ and maybe ‘twelve and a half weeks’, but given the examples of his antisemitism in that article, I am sure that he knew exactly what he was doing.

I checked and was mildly surprised to learn that it was real. I was expecting a propertarian to be subtler than that.

I should have seen it coming.

There were a few occasions when the Romanian fascists machine‐gunned retreaters.

Officers often threatened to shoot cowards, and commanders sometimes even ordered “blocking detachments” to machine gun soldiers who retreated, though this was rarely followed through with.

(Source.)

Because everybody knows that no adolescent has ever had an inexplicable, inappropriate habit before.

Well, you can also try offering research, but good luck convincing one antisocialist to read any of it for more than ten seconds. You’ll have more fun pulling your own teeth.

No, mate, it’s completely true: Kim Jong‐un is starving millions and millions of innocent people simply because he has nothing better to do with his time. Trust me, all of my entrepreneurial Korean friends can back me up on this.

Normally I hate to brag but ‘We Believe in Neocolonialism’ would have been a fantastic name for this group. It sounds so much less inspirational.

I agree that most people, ourselves included, have vulgarized the concept of fascism and use it as a crude synonym for capitalist tyranny. Strictly speaking, régimes such as Imperial America and the Zionist neocolony are not, nor are they turning, fascist… but even so I do not feel the need to speak up every time we characterize our oppressors as such. That we recognize our oppression and struggle against it matters more to me than our imprecise categorization of it. If we need to characterize the ongoing superexploitation of the Southern world as ‘fascism’, even if that is not the correct term for it, then so be it.

Rather than explicitly disapproving of leftists for vulgarizing fascism, we can—and maybe we should—instead take it as an opportunity to show them how the most effective way to prevent neofascism is by abolishing capitalism; we can take it as an opportunity to show them how European colonialism inspired fascism. Take, for example, this extract from German Rule in Russia, 1941–1945:

Hitler continued, ‘if we speak of new lands, we are bound to think first of Russia and her border states’.²

His favourite analogy in this connection was a comparison of the future German East with British India.³ To him, India provided an object lesson of colonial exploitation and Machiavellian virtuosity; he used it to buttress his conviction that the population of ‘Germany’s India’ — the Soviet Union — was likewise no more than ‘white slaves’ destined to serve the master race. Characteristic of his landlocked outlook, he proclaimed that Germany’s primary colonies were to be found not overseas but in Russia.⁴ Along with its manpower, the resources of the East were to assure the material well‐being of the German people.

(Emphasis added.)

We are less aware of how the status quo—with or without (neo)fascism—already superexploits the South, and that is a problem. It is frustrating how many are more concerned with the possible rise of neofascism at home than with the superexploitation already going on right now, but the two concerns need not be antagonistic at all.

We can show others, through their crude antifascism, how the superexploitation of the South was not only similar to but also inspired fascism, and how we can prevent more neofascism by ending the South’s superexploitation once and for all. Let us invite them to learn more, and dare them to upgrade their antifascism.

The German Fascists were violently anticommunist, but funnily enough I’ve never seen anybody use that to argue that anticommunism is wrong even though it was far more important to their politics than something like drinking water or breathing oxygen.

Antisocialists always focus on the Fascists’ least important aspects to induce guilt by association, many of which aren’t even true. E.g. the Fascists were gay (see The Pink Swastika), the Fascists took the guns, the Fascists nationalized literally everything, the Fascists had a strong welfare state, the Fascists lived on the streets, &c. It’s never, ever, ever the elephants in the room.

It’s the Axis that the military dictatorship is treating like liberators.