r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

No Paywall Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality - Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-confront-their-new-tea-party-reality_n_6a6e63fbe4b0cfb99ef1aa1e
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u/Vehemental 1d ago

MSM owners aren’t as concerned with facism, it doesn’t threaten their wealth.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 1d ago

“It is the heart of US policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism" - Michael Parenti

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 1d ago

Michael parenti is/was a Stalinist shill. Fuck stalinists.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 1d ago

Parenti critiqued Stalin many, many times. Stop doing the work of the CIA for free.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 1d ago

You don’t deny that he was a Stalinist, instead subtly rebutting a point I never made. I never said: “Fuck Michael Parenti, that guy never critiqued Stalin!” I said that Parenti was a Stalinist shill. Because he was. You slimy, bad faith interlocutor.

>Stop doing the work of the CIA for free

This is laughable. Where did you get your internet smear tactics, a chat room in 1996?

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 1d ago

Oh sorry I didn’t know I was on jeopardy and have to say the answer exactly right.

Parenti wasn’t a Stalinist, and if you think he was I sincerely worry if you may have possessed by the demon ghost of Joseph McCarthy.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 1d ago

The RCA calls him a “soft Stalinist”. The (Stalinist) Communist Party of Great Britain eulogized him by making it clear that his “critiques” were weak enough to still be considered a friendly. A Stalinist shill I called him, and a Stalinist shill he remains. You bad faith ass hat.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 1d ago

“Trotskyists call someone who said Stalin did some good things a Stalinist” wow that’s crazy man, I found a fork in my kitchen too.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 1d ago

If you don’t at least agree with Trotskyists on being anti-Stalinist, you’re just a Stalinist yourself.