SebastianLeeDanzig wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:46 pm
vlad wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:57 pm
fret123 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:09 pm
You bet. In Canada the PLQ set off car bombs in the 60s.
The PLQ? Don't you mean the FLQ. And yeah, the FLQ was the Canadian version of the Red Army Faction and others in Europe and the Weathermen, etc in the US. Roughly half a century ago.
The FLQ was nationalist as fuck, though. They were at least as Trumpian as they were left-wing. Far cry from the RAF, which was totally rad. If the political world keeps turning the way it is recently, I fucking hope some young crazies start exactly that type of shit again. Baader-Ensslin 4 life!
Still, check human victims of right-wing terror vs. left-wing terror, any country, any time. Then fuck off forever with that alternative facts noise.
Not surprising that government sponsored terrorism apparently doesn't rank as terrorism in your mind because boy are you ever off otherwise.
Various estimates of people Joseph Stalin killed starts at 20 million people. It goes all the way up to 60-80M.
Chairman Mao killed 45 million people in 4 years ie 1958 to 1962.
The overall deaths directly attributed to communism in the 20th century was 100 Million people.
The biggest reason fascism became popular in western Europe was fear of Joseph Stalin, communism and their fear of losing their way of life and family if they came under Soviet rule as what was happening in Eastern Europe. Support for Hitler, Franco, Mussolini was, largely, and to varying degrees, a response to the fear of Joseph Stalin. Most felt better with their own tough guy thug dictator who could make them feel like they didn't need to fear Stalin. In other words, the rise of fascism doesn't ever happen if you don't have communism and an authoritative Russia wanting to implement it on it's neighbours.
And of course it was politically necessary for these fascists to take up political ideologies that were diametrically opposed to communism. As we all know ,the only political ideology these people really had was authoritative rule over their people and they would have commandeered any political ideology to achieve that end.
In Hitler's case, the biggest practical reason to be "against" communism was the commie party was his biggest rival when he was rising in Germany. His political choices were to join the communist party or not be a communist. He rightly surmised joining a fringe disjointed party like the nazi's were at the time would be better for his career.
Government kills more people everyday than every private citizen multiplied by the thousands. I would make the case that anyone that supports the expansion of government (ie left wing ideology) is unwittingly sponsoring more killing and violence. Are Palestinian kids victims of private citizens or governments? How about the caravan of people coming from Honduras? How about the people of Yemen? How about Syria? I could go on...are all these people being victimized by private citizens or governments?