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    35 KB "Conflationary thought", apparently common to most facists? Interested Anon 03/06/09(Fri)18:54:23 No.3386281  
    An ex of mine invited me to a housewarming party thrown by one of her friends (she and I are still on good terms somehow) and this girl, oh man robots, this girl. She's married to a Russian neo-nazi. Not overtly, he never said anything blatant but I spotted lots of books, photos, memorabilia and he made a few comments about immigrants fucking up Russia, and as he got some champagne in him he starts ranting about how the real problem in Russia is a centuries old conspiracy of the banking system, predatory lending, inflation and so on, which he then claims is due to communist immigrants.

    So I speak up and ask why he's simultaneously railing against the evils of capitalism *and* communism, *and* immigrants. He's entitled to do so of course, but he was making them all out to be a single monolithic entity, even though it's contradictory. The conspiracy can't be "centuries old" if it's the work of immigrants, most muslims aren't communists, and communism can't be reasonably blamed for the darker side of capitalism.

    He started to get defensive, and my ex wisely suggested we should leave. He followed us into the driveway, asking over and over in a calm but stern voice "Are you a Jew? Was your mother a Jew? ARE YOU A MARXIST?" We pulled out with him still standing there in the headlights, his wife looking ashamed but in a way that suggested that this was a pretty common behavior for him.
    >> Interested Anon 03/06/09(Fri)18:55:30 No.3386285
    Now and then, I study fascist political thought. It's a bit of a "fasci-nation" you might say. (tee hee!). One trend I've noticed is that as Fascists tend to play upon the frustrations of poorly educated working class conservatives, fascist propagandists cleverly conflate many different ideas/movements/theories that the party disapproves of, rolling them all up into a single monolithic enemy that the party base can focus its hatred on. Hitler did this when he invented the "Bolshevik Jew", attributing everything from the feminism/freethought/liberalism to capitalist excess and loosened social morals to 'The International Jew'. Anything the party opposed could be rolled into this single enemy in order to justify its destruction. New legislation that would make life difficult for brownshirts? Declare it a bolshevik Jewish plot, strike it down, etc.
    >> Interested Anon 03/06/09(Fri)18:58:18 No.3386309
    Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Fascist Union was fond of doing the same thing in his speeches. Go find a few on Youtube, they're a trip. He seemed to know that he was speaking to a crowd with a simplistic understanding of the two dominant political parties and a deeply rooted frustration with unemployment, so he conflated the two parties, claiming they were identical, part of a reactionary effort to suppress the will of the body politic. Of course, his BUF party was then positioned as the ideal third option, and many bought it.

    This sort of "X and Y are contradictory yet identical and equally sinister" reasoning seems to show up wherever you find frustrated, unsophisticated people who either don't understand the nuances that distinguish two movements/ideologies/political parties from one another, or (if they're involved in a far right movement) want to blur them together into a single target so that they can use it as a locus for the frustration and hatred of their supporting members.

    Anyway, here's a good read on it:

    http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html
    >> Anonymous 03/06/09(Fri)19:01:20 No.3386335
    "conflate many different ideas/movements/theories that the party disapproves of, rolling them all up into a single monolithic enemy": This is exactly what Marxists do as well, bro.



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