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  • Because I’ve witnessed how they work over the years. They don’t rely on good policy or governance, they don’t rely on competence, they rely on brand image and publicity. Why do you think Farage made sure to be on Question Time and Have I Got News For You as often as he could? He was a nobody MEP before that but now he’s a household name.

    We all know of their existence, we all know what they stand for, they’re all over mainstream media. By publishing their shite here as well all you’re doing is aiding them by legitimising them.

    We know our enemy, we don’t need to be reminded of every thought, fart, and cough as well.


  • Why are you determined to be Reform’s publicist?

    Any publicity is good publicity. By sharing these articles you’re actively aiding Reform. Even if you think it’s to “stay informed”, that’s unfortunately not how humans work.

    We know all we need to know purely by the fact she’s standing for Reform. Anything beyond that just increases and legitimises her “brand”. It increases her likelihood of becoming a household name, which increases her likelihood of being voted for.




  • Casting a critical eye on failed experiments. Which failed experiments? Where did those anarchists go wrong?

    You’re saying a lot without saying anything.

    I’m asking for examples of what you’re talking about, because there’s not much context with which to understand what you’re trying to say and I wish to learn.

    It sounds like you have an idea of what can be avoided/done in future but without articulating specifics your comment isn’t particularly helpful, so I’m asking for more detail so we can learn and improve.









  • Zombie@feddit.uktoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comshirt
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    It’s from history and hyperbolised because internet.

    Drawing from mutualism, Mikhail Bakunin founded collectivist anarchism and entered the International Workingmen’s Association, a class worker union later known as the First International that formed in 1864 to unite diverse revolutionary currents. The International became a significant political force, with Karl Marx being a leading figure and a member of its General Council. Bakunin’s faction (the Jura Federation) and Proudhon’s followers (the mutualists) opposed state socialism, advocating political abstentionism and small property holdings.[43] After bitter disputes, the Bakuninists were expelled from the International by the Marxists at the 1872 Hague Congress.[44] Anarchists were treated similarly in the Second International, being ultimately expelled in 1896.[45] Bakunin predicted that if revolutionaries gained power by Marx’s terms, they would end up the new tyrants of workers.


    Despite concerns, anarchists enthusiastically participated in the Russian Revolution in opposition to the White movement, especially in the Makhnovshchina. Seeing the victories of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution and the resulting Russian Civil War, many workers and activists turned to Communist parties, which grew at the expense of anarchism and other socialist movements. In France and the United States, members of major syndicalist movements such as the General Confederation of Labour and the Industrial Workers of the World left their organisations and joined the Communist International.[58] However, anarchists met harsh suppression after the Bolshevik government had stabilised, including during the Kronstadt rebellion.[59] Several anarchists from Petrograd and Moscow fled to Ukraine, before the Bolsheviks crushed the anarchist movement there too.[59] With the anarchists being repressed in Russia, two new antithetical currents emerged, namely platformism and synthesis anarchism. The former sought to create a coherent group that would push for revolution while the latter were against anything that would resemble a political party.

    In the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39, anarchists and syndicalists (CNT and FAI) once again allied themselves with various currents of leftists. A long tradition of Spanish anarchism led to anarchists playing a pivotal role in the war, and particularly in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain, where they collectivised the land.[60] The Soviet Union provided some limited assistance at the beginning of the war, but the result was a bitter fight between communists and other leftists in a series of events known as the May Days, as Joseph Stalin asserted Soviet control of the Republican government, ending in another defeat of anarchists at the hands of the communists.[61]


    By the end of World War II, the anarchist movement had been severely weakened.[62] The 1960s witnessed a revival of anarchism, likely caused by a perceived failure of Marxism–Leninism and tensions built by the Cold War.[63]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism#History







  • Zombie@feddit.uktoCasual UK@feddit.ukThe most sacred and holy truck
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    Yes, I too show religious fealty to [regional brand]. Those Americans with their corporate sanewashing and bombardment of adverts are silly but I’m of course superior because my marketing for [brand] is more sophisticated.


    This is a fucking advert for a company that purchases raw materials cheap from ex colonies, shoves them in a bag, and sells it to you for silly prices with the gall to say it’s from Yorkshire. Fuck these guys.