Procapra [comrade/them, she/her]

I enjoy various types of antelope…and Stalin…and Mao

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  • "In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov’s recruits were Nazis.

    The unit has denied it adheres to Nazi ideology as a whole, but Nazi symbols such as the swastika and SS regalia are rife on the uniforms and bodies of Azov members."

    If 10 to 20% of the people in a battalion are estimated to be nazis, and people are openly displaying swastikas and SS regalia, it’s very clearly a nazi battalion.















  • Good post. We often “know” something to be right without being able to explain why it’s right. This would disqualify us from being proper teachers and is not a dialectical approach, but its something many of us get stuck at and its an explanation for what you are observing. I also find myself in this position so consider this a self crit.

    This is probably why folks view marxists as dogmatic, those of us that haven’t successfully shifted our lens from rationalism to materialism largely rely on the heads of marxism to guide us forward taking their word as an absolute fact. It’s a crutch. I do not trust any opinions I form on my own in regards to socialist analysis, I make too many errors, so I take the great men at their word. They liberated the working class in their parts of the world after all, if we just listen to what they said we can be great too.

    I hope that more reading will help, but I’ve met some very well read people who have a similarly erroneous mindset.