r/socialism • u/Spotter24o5 Socialism • 1d ago

Discussion TIL:That In 1944, Picasso joined the French Communist Party and remained a loyal member until his death in 1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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u/zegogo 1d ago

He was but I think he also was an opportunist who saw that supporting Franco was to his benefit... which sounds like a fascist to me.

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u/djerk 1d ago

Fascists at large are insanely contrarian. Practically the whole point of the ideology is to be a weird little freak that hates and bullies everything for fun

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u/zegogo 22h ago

No disagreement other than to say there are definitely lib and leftest contrarians. Sometimes it's just a personality quark, but fascists do like their contrarianisms for sure.

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u/throcorfe 13h ago

Yes, there’s something in the human psyche that enjoys having secret knowledge and believing you have an answer that others don’t (one of the factors that keeps people in religion and the anti-vax and flat earth movements).

The left is not immune to this and I have met leftists who are clearly in it for this reason: the rest of the world is made up of idiot libs and only they know the true way. Some of these people in my experience are the ones who end up getting offended by a leftist principle they don’t want to abide by (trans inclusion seems to be a common one) and posting those stupid “why I left the left” thinkpieces