The cesspool that Political Twitter often is had this Tweet Wednesday when "Communism" was trending:
Fascists: Communism is Fascism.
— Move Left, Idiots! (@moveleftpod) August 24, 2022
Liberals: Communism is fascism.
Communists: We defeated Hitler and stopped the Holocaust and now want to ensure housing and healthcare are human rights.
To which I quote-Tweeted:
Non-Communist leftists: Communism is not fascism, but it's as bad as fascism in its own way. Stalin killed as many or more than Hitler and Mao killed far far more. Ask the German SPD of 1932-33. They thought both sucked, too, and they were RIGHT.#BOOM #fify #FixedItForYou https://t.co/KKIiac0iia
— TheRealSocraticGadfly (@real_gadfly) August 25, 2022
And stand by it in detail.
The SPD is the same as the German political party today: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands or Social Democratic Party in English. During the last couple of years of the Weimar Republic, German Communists kept pressuring them to coalition, and the SPD refused on principal and with good reason. And everything I said in my Tweet is true.
Now, "Move Left, Idiots," in the context of this particular tweet, was trying to "trigger" Ukrainians, it appears. I can do that, and call out what's wrong with Zelenskyy's corruption and more without writing blank checks to either Putin's PR machine OR that of (alleged) actual Communists in the US.
And, as for the non-twosider facts on the ground? Wagner Group has fascists just like OUN and Azov Battalion. And, if state controlled capitalism is fascism, but not full Nazi type, then both Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China qualify.
