I’ve seen Umberto Eco’s checklist simultaneously be rejected and accepted by the left. Some will say that it’s non-Marxist and prefer not to use it, but if anybody here says “the enemy is both strong and weak,” nobody (that I’ve seen) rejects that rhetoric device.

Ur-fascism should be understood and used as what it is, an essay on the semiotics of fascism. It works as a critique of ideology, and it works very well in that regard. What it does not achieve at all, because that lies outside of the scope of that essay, is explaining the historic and material roots of fascism, which is where the usual Marxist explanations come into play, such as the essay you’re quoting, or the definition by Dimitroff that expanded upon Stalin’s theory of social fascism, Trotzkis counterpoints to that (that put more emphasis on the role of the petit bourgeoisie), the (debatable and in my opinion subcomplex) “agent theory” used in the DDR or later post-colonial variations like the concept of Foucault’s Boomerang or Fanon’s writings. When used correctly, Eco isn’t contradictory to these, but complementary.

Usually better opinions on current events than people my age

I’d even say that young people today have better opinions on current events than people my age had when they were their age. Most late Gen Xers were always awful about politics, just pure end of history garbage. We’re the generation that grew up with AES being replaced by Pizza Hut and shock therapy, and the kids these days grow up with the planet being set on fire by capitalism, so this shouldn’t surprise anybody.

• robust: gutting all social safety systems and public education

• sustainable: making sure there’s a solid trickle-up of wealth that used to belong to the public

• inclusive: in one way or the other, this will fuck over anybody who isn’t at least a US$ millionaire

the antithesis to “what 0 theory does to a mfer”

i think i’d projectile vomit at the mere sight

skin tight extreme short shorts with the words “POUND THIS” written across his ass

lmao i need some of those

Yeah, it absolutely is absurd, but a ton of libs out there don’t even clear that bar and will fold to transphobes as soon as they face backlash like that.

making the

HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT

in wrestling just text

“lol” said the scorpion, “lmao”

I’ve been wondering if the stuff will go in the plastics or the residual waste bin ever since they found microplastics in balls.

lmao, your egg’s about to get cracked, James

I would’ve thought the actual reason the Tories have made themselves hated enough to lose against Keir fucking Starmer of all people is that they’re the exact same kind of floundering, rabbitholed bellend as the person who’s written that article, but i guess when you’re an anglofascist nosferatu writing for the Economist, being honest with yourself isn’t a skill you usually possess.

it’s been on 4chan about as long as pepe, ofc it’s super fucking racist

Freedom for all political prisoners, even the innocent ones!

nonbinary antifa cat & possum marxists

i don’t know who made this, but i want to hug them already

This is bait, Germans are annoyingly obsessed with baked goods (or i guess boiled in that case) and ofc you can get bagles here.

they’re so media illiterate and so trained to react to buzzwords that they couldn’t understand the most obvious satire of Amerika-brand fascism until the exact moment somebody got punched for saying “blue lives matter”. That’s the point when this blew up, they only caught on to it all the moment Bootlick Falcon or however that guy was called showed up and used their exact dogwhistles, verbatim.

this is wild lmao

Every comment on chapo has to include a reference to a podcast or it gets deleted.

The accent of the Toussaint region in the Witcher games is actually based off Danish because the studio thought that using French or Italian accents on the voice acting (which would be the most obvious fits for the area) were both so overdone and widely ridiculed that they wouldn’t work.