• Lad@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    They share the same positions on global politics as pretty much every Marxist-Leninist political party on the planet. You may not like those positions, but trying to characterise them as actually far-right extremist is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

    Liberals & social democrats on lemmy.world acting like NATO, the US Democratic Party, and capitalism are the real bulwarks against fascism is amusing.

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      2 months ago

      Once you get into Leninist territory the difference between the far left and the far right blurs into meaninglessness.

      Stalin made a deal to carve up Poland with Hitler

      Steve Bannon cites Lenin as an inspirational figure.

      Communist regimes have historical brutally repressed religious, sexual, and racial minorities.

      I could continue but you get the point. People obsessed with control and domination always end up acting the same