Chirbes was an absolute genius as a writer but he was infected by the same mind virus that is present in the heads of so many extremely intelligent people. He thought that any form of nationalism or patriotism was an inevitable precursor of fascism. He was so terrified of any expression of group allegiance that even seeing soccer fans cheer the home team made him fear a swift rise of a new Hitler.
It is curious that the writer’s most passionate denunciations of patriotism appear in the same entries where he anticipates the spillage of neoliberalism into art. I’ve seen this reaction in many people. They agree that neoliberalism is bad but they believe that the proposed remedy of preserving the nation state is worse. “But Hitler” is a sort of a psychological defense mechanism which helps them accept neoliberalism.
Condemnations of Hitler have become the most anodyne respectable pastime. They are no longer about Hitler, however. They are about showing allegiance to the new affective regime. We will never crawl from under the neoliberal machine unless we understand how this avoidance mechanism works. We need to let Hitler go. We need to walk away from fascists, Nazis, and communists. It all happened and it was all in the past. We’re failing to notice the present because we’re so obsessed by winning rhetorical victories against what is long gone.
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In SA nazis and communists are equally unpopular. The problem is more moderates who can’t get over their own egos.
https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Editorials/common-sense-s-diary
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But Trump! (And Trump is Hitler.).
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This is me, Jonathan, saying this (sarcastically).
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I’m even more annoyed by the constant comparisons between Hitler and Putin. They have confused a lot of people and made getting out the information on what’s happening very difficult.
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I don’t agree with you. We need to revise Hitler not renounce him. We need to tell the truth. The mythology of the Second World War is the foundation of our global morality, such as it is. That needs to be attacked and destroyed, you can’t compromise with that cancer. The holocaust is a lie, the origins of WW2 are lies, the victory is a lie. As Hitler once said, if the men fighting this war understood what it was really about they’d all be fighting for him. If you haven’t read David Irvings Hitlers War you should. It’s a start. Stop letting the left define Truth. Woke and Communism are just different facets of the Revolution. They aren’t going anywhere. “He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.”
Walnut
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And this is how they trap you, congratulations.
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No, it’s you that is trapped. You’re reading the Gospel according to Judas. You’re trapped by their rules and their parameters. You’re still shooting with their dice. The Truth will set you free, but it takes real courage to break your programming. Middle age and older don’t have that in the west. They’re happy with their fables. But the indoctrination of WW2 falls flat on the young today, in the third world it means nothing. That’s the future, not your separate peace.
Walnut
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Yes, we definitely need to swap out our defective population for those wonderful turdworldists. That’s such a new and fresh idea. I wonder why nobody tried it so far.
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A straw man argument is a logical fallacy where someone distorts, exaggerates, or completely misrepresents an opponent’s original position to make it easier to attack.
Walnut
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Yes, copy pasting sentences from Wikipedia will completely erase the fact that you cited third-worlders as a positive example to all of us in the previous comment.
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Ibid
Walnut
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Walnut, wish I could like your comment a second time. Mr. Irving’s work really is the gold standard for WWII history. Unfortunately, most Westerners over about 40 or so have been lied to so much and so often that showing or trying to explain to them that everything which has happened in the last 80 years was based off a lie doesn’t really register and will only get you flack from otherwise reasonable people.
I am guessing you have also seen some of the lectures Mr. Irving used to do? He mentioned once back in the I want to say early 2000s, that at long last the lie was beginning to break. He was correct, its just taking longer than he or anyone else could have reasonably expected. Which isn’t really that much of a surprise if you think about it.
Consider that most of the political parties in power today, can only stay in power so long as their opposition can be kept locked down and so as to keep them from throwing the current pack of traitors out on their ear. They would do everything in their power to keep this from happening.
All that being said, you are correct. The young are breaking free of the myths and lies. The issue is the boomers who are so locked in that they cannot even consider that their worldview is a lie. Well them and the young who are brainwashed into believing that communism will work if we just try it right. Gen X doesn’t really count. They themselves state they just want to be left alone.
Personally I think this is one of the reasons the EU, Britain, Australia, Canada, and numerous other countries are in lockstep at the exact same time to restrict access to the internet, and at the same time force everyone to dox themselves simply to log in.
After all once the lie fully breaks down how do you keep a wrathful population of the young under control. You would need to disrupt communications, and vanish any potential leadership. Very much like Germany in the last few years come to think of it, and increasingly the UK as well.
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Thank you for the kind post. I see several have already down checked it, God knoweth how. I consider David Irving a friend though he is now incapacitated. We had many enjoyable meetings and exchanges over the years. I admired him greatly. As Max Plank said “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Thus science advances funeral by funeral.” Truth is the same.
Walnut
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Curiously, I’m the only person on my own blog who can’t downvote. I only have a Like button.
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“The holocaust is a lie”. Tell that to those who survived it or the lying eyes of thousands of soldiers of different countries, who entered the concentration camps when liberating Poland and other countries that housed the camps, including my home country of Ukraine. Or tell the many historians who’ve been researching for decades the millions of documents, including the German ones, about the very detailed descriptions of what the Nazis did to the Jews during the war. What a sad brainwashed individual you are.
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All true and I’m with you completely. However my 10-year-old spent the entire last quarter of 4th grade reading and discussing a book about the Holocaust in class. I don’t understand why this is necessary or useful at this age. The kids have not read anything yet in class that would be about America, American history, and the wonderful achievements of this country. Is it any wonder then that people who grow up on a steady diet of endless stories about the Holocaust become jaded and annoyed with the entire subject? Nobody wants to be made to feel guilty all the time. This has become extremely counterproductive and this is why I strongly believe that we should quit talking about the Holocaust, making movies, publishing books. We need a long dry spell away from this topic.
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I agree with you that there’s been too much emphasis on the Holocaust in the popular culture (I’m not familiar with the schools in the US), and it should be dialed down to the appropriate level, but Walnut’s revision of history really bothers me. I don’t have to tell you what propaganda does to people who are all too eager to believe it.
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Mr. Walnut originally came to us as a great believer in Russian propaganda so yes I know. How he manages simultaneously to agree with Russia’s right to invade Ukraine in a hunt for imaginary Nazis and reject the narrative which sees Nazis everywhere, including in places where there were actual Nazis, is an utter mystery. Russians invented antifas and are paying for antifa movements everywhere in the world. One would think that a person who is the ideological opposite of the antifas would not be all that into Russians. Yet that is not the case.
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Actually, you want to be careful, there were different military units of Waffen SS from France, Holland, the Scandinhavian countries, and also Ukrainians, who fought in the SS Division Galicia.
Don’t know about the proper age to give children information on the holocaust or the gulags. Boys tend to be more curious than girls, but how much, how graphic? My uncle was a paratrooper, seldom talked. But said starving, particularly the skeletal kids, in Holland was horrific, but Bergen-Belsen was worse because thousands were too far gone.
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KId. my problem is the term neoliberalism itself. Small “L” liberalism originally supported democratic government with a market economy: i.e., civil liberty, free speech, freedom of conscience; essentially a balance of individual rights, with private property, but with some Christian responsibility for aiding the disadvantaged. Much of what you are describe seems far more accurately termed Neo-Marxist/Feminist shyte, and truly unfortunately, it sure as hell is not “all in the past.”
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Neoliberalism is just what the communists are calling capitalism these days.
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I’m completely in favor of capitalism. And completely opposed to neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism is a variation of capitalism. But it’s not the only possible one. We can absolutely retain capitalism but channel it in a different direction. This kind of thing has been done successfully in the past! We are not doomed to existing in this variant.
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in SA, neoliberalism means classical liberalism, which is the traditional form of capitalism.
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This one akin to saying that in Illinois pizza means choral music.
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My concern is that whether it is left or right, communist or fascist, the “solution” is ways authoritarian and almost always far worse than the original problem. Let’s at least correctly identify the authoritarian tendencies — e.g. DEI is not Neo anything, nor is it liberal or fascist, it is f’ing Marxist/Feminist. Period. Full stop;-D
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It’s anti-Marxist in that it claims that a billionaire like Oprah is oppressed by a white minimum wage worker. And it’s anti-feminist in that it obligates women to shut up and accept men waving their penises at them in locker rooms.
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Well Kid, once again we are going to have to agree to disagree. Those examples are so equisitely irrational that it requires polite control, i.e., authoritarianism, to avoid being laughed out of existence. Remember, my mere male mind ;-D
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And no, Kid, I don’t believe in downvoting — that’s like frowning ;-D
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Marxism is all about the economy and the class struggle being at the root of everything. Once you erase the economic factors in favor of race, you are doing the opposite of Marxism.
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Actually, Kid, Engels figured they could use the “revolutionary fire” of the Irish to undermine the British Empire. Remember, any political party that was willng to deliberately destroy the family unit had few if any scruples.
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It’s not.
Neoliberal capitalism is, absurdly as it may sound, a form of neomarxism. Its greatest asset is the ability to adapt to different cultures in a way that leaves them intact on the outside but totally carved out from the inside.
Neoliberal capitalism is how Marxism has been able to colonise Western capitalism from within. It’s what parasites do to their hosts.
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I don’t understand what you mean by Marxism, then.
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Classical Marxism as a political philosophy has been “digested” through the lens of Theory to grow into a wholly new beast. The new ideology no longer sees the class fight as between workers and capitalists, but between oppressed and oppressors on the basis not of economic power but of other factors such as race, sex, orientation and the rest.
According to this new orthodoxy, Oprah can still be a victim, while an ordinary white homeless man can be her oppressor: the latter enjoys “white privilege” – whatever that is – the former doesn’t, despite all the other privileges she may enjoy.
It’s a sleight of hand, but Classical Marxism was replaced by Woke Neomarxism as long ago as the birth of Critical Theory.
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I sincerely don’t see the point of tying what we are currently experiencing to a political philosophy that argued, in its entirety, that the economy and the economic factors are the basis of all societal developments. The economic factors have been taken out of it, which to me means that everything which is Marxist has been taken out of it.
The reason why I use the term neoliberalism is because it points to the actual cause of the problem. That cause, in my opinion, is not Marx. It is much worse than Marx. The cause of the problems, I believe, is liberalism. There are still way too many people who believe that there is a good liberalism that can somehow be prevented from devolving into transgender surgeries for children and open borders. But that is not true. Liberalism, by definition, will always lead in this direction. By claiming that this is all about Marx, we are making ourselves sound outdated and allowing the real culprit to escape.
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It’s not Marxism because Marxism believes that industrial workers are the most progressive, important class and promises the dictatorship of proletariat. Neoliberalism very specifically punishes and destroys the proletariat.
You are right in that neo-liberalism is a form of liberalism. Rape is a form of sex. It’s possible to start with something good and pervert it. I personally believe that liberalism always leads into the neoliberal perversion. I don’t think it can stop itself. That’s why I’m opposed to classical liberalism as well.
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This is true and why america is hated by workers and the the international proletariat.
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