Dear Lemmy, as you may well be aware, racial hierarchies and colonial empires are doing good in these early 2020s. In particular, in the days of the war in Ukraine, it’s important to point out the fascist tendencies at play.

Fascism and racial/cultural hierarchies are on the rise on every continent, from Turkey to Brasil, to China, to France, to India… Fuck all Nations! Destroy all borders, and long live autonomous Communes!

On the Ukraine side of things, there’s a bunch of neo-nazis in the army, as well as more traditional nationalists/fascists. It’s not exactly a secret, and the former president was very close to these circles:

Photo montage with ukrainian neo-nazis

On the Russian side of things, there’s also a bunch of neo-nazis in the army as well as traditional nationalists/fascists. It’s not exactly a secret either:

Russian military officer with a nazi eagle

Both governments have long fought against popular movements and anarchist/antifascist networks. Both countries have neo-nazi/fascist militias parading down the streets and beating/killing random people. Just like France or USA have them too.

Don’t trust me? Check out the wikipedia page on neo-nazism. Follow their sources and make yourself an opinion. It’s very instructive, although very incomplete. I definitely recommend to check out the Racism in Ukraine and Racism in Russia pages, too.

Please remember that when you try to paint one side of a conflict as the good anti-nazi hero. Nazis are fucking everywhere. Fascists and nazis have been running the show in much of the world even after WWII ended. Nazi collaborators were responsible for France’s war against the algerian people, and their grandchildren (spiritual or biological) are responsible for today’s new repression, wars and genocides.

We need to dismantle nazism and fascism at its root: the nation State and cultural supremacy. Yes, you should be proud of your local culture and land. No, that does not justify diminishing other cultures/lands.

All we exploited/struggling people have to stand in solidarity with other people struggling for freedom and equality across the planet. No border divides us in the international socialist/anarchist movement. We will fight against all Empires for autonomous communities worldwide!

PS: If you need more detailed resources on neo-nazi/neo-fascist/nationalist/traditionalist on the rise in a specific country/region, feel free to ask. There are chances i have some good articles/documentaries, and if not i’ve got ideas about who to ask.

  • marmulak@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Of course Russia’s government is inherently fascist. Putin and his regime are right-wing nationalists and racists.

      • marmulak@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Russia is only anti-fascist in name, but fascist in its real character. Ukraine can have as many oligarchs as it wants, which doesn’t justify Russia invading it.

        • DPUGT2@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          Russia is only anti-fascist in name, but fascist in its real character.

          I agree that it is not anti-fascist except in name.

          How is it fascist? It is authoritarian, oligarchial, tyrannical, and abusive. But fascism didn’t have monopolies on these qualities.

          The Italian government was not just fascist, but Fascist, as they invented the name for it (even if they didn’t solely invent the ideology). However, of course Germany gets to be the textbook example, simply because they had cool uniforms and the accent. One might make the case that Francoism was fascist, I wouldn’t waste much breath arguing against that. Portugal could even get an honorable mention.

          Eastern Europe had a bunch of wannabes hopping on Germany’s bandwagon, at least when they were still winning. If there’s fewer than a dozen of those groups I’d be shocked. Hell throw in the fascist sympathizer parties from the UK and the US too, though it’s arguable how influential they ever became.

          Some of these groups even survived in a real way into the 1970s, hiding and in some cases, not really hiding.

          And of course there are a bunch of groupies who like to commit petty crime and yearn for fascism (usually Nazi fascism), but they’re barely more than LARPers. Obnoxious, criminal LARPers, but still.

          There aren’t any more real fascists. Anywhere. They all died of old age years ago. This doesn’t make the world some fairy tale utopia… there are other kinds of evil. But calling everyone that you don’t like a fascist/nazi is infantile, inaccurate (at best), and counter-productive.

          Thus, it would be difficult for anyone to be “anti-fascist” in the year 2022. It’s difficult to oppose that which does not exist. Those that claim to be so are just grandstanding. We have other problems now, barring the appearance of time-traveling zombie SS agents from a parallel dimension.