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Capitalism in Decay

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Fascism is capitalism in decay. As with anticommunism in general, the ruling class has oversimplified this phenomenon to the point of absurdity and teaches but a small fraction of its history. This is the spot for getting a serious understanding of it (from a more proletarian perspective) and collecting the facts that contemporary anticommunists are unlikely to discuss.

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Description: A European man’s arm holds up a sword, implicitly likening the Axis to the Crusaders, and behind it are three Baltic flags and two other European ones: the flag of Lithuania, the flag of Latvia, the flag of the Third Reich, a flag of Finland, and the flag of Estonia. In the background is an unarmed Bolshevik skeleton (equating Bolshevism with death) looking at the sword with concern, almost trembling before it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did these posters ever work on anyone? Like, someone who was on the fence (but also wasn't like a peasant farmer who wouldn't really be exposed to posters I guess) but after seeing a couple of these thought "yeah I'll volunteer for the SS, what's the worse that can happen"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

If the only thing you know about Bolsheviks is that they are spooky skeletons, you might be convinced.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, look at your slop right-wing propaganda today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I doubt they were effective on anyone who wasn't already sympathetic to the Nazi cause.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Given that Nazis failed to organize Lithuanian SS units, no.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

USSR hahaha Brandishing a sword of all things against an animate skeleton who has no more flesh to lacerate or blood to bleed is kind of a fitting image for the fascist delusion that overwhelming brutality will crush an oppressed people's will. The colonized are wishfully depicted as dead, but frustratingly still walk, refusing to stay buried, their will to live after being stripped of so much a haunting mystery to the fascist cowards. Refusing to engage the mystery, they can only project their own fears - they surely sense that if their colonial grab fails, a sword would be fine tool to cut away the slave plantations and egg monopolies on which they've gorged.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

depicting my enemies as skeletons while wearing a silly hat with a totenkopf

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The eSStonian and Latvian definitely not nazi posters i totally swear guyz literally plagiarized off one another

Straight up only changed the flags, backdrop of the respective capitals, flags and language

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...