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by narag 2y ago
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- Biganon 2y ago[flagged]
- wslh 2y agoI saw the idea more as a reflection of a contradiction within his traits, which is also a common human characteristic. Regarding the ‘-isms’ it’s worth noting that nearly all intellectuals associated with Surrealism leaned towards the left wing. A notable exception is Dalí, who was mocked with the ‘Avido Dollars’ anagram.
- aloisdg 2y agoDali was a fascist who hits women
- wslh 2y agoThere are all combinations of people, what is special/different in Dali comparing to almost all people is that he said that himself about the violence to some women.
- mistercheph 2y agoVice article brain,, all the “stories” of Dali hitting women were written,, by Dali himself, notably the case in which a woman enraged him by calling his feet beautiful
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- dev1ycan 2y agoNot just that, but a community in the early 1900s...? before communism was even attempted at large scale? you don't have the "it's been tried and it didn't work" excuse to criticize him for.
- stg22 2y agoHe was a Communist until his death in the 1970s, but Communism is a pretty broad spectrum and his beliefs moved about it during his life. His public and financial support for Stalinism in France until the mid-1950s was a bad error of judgement.
- dgfitz 2y agoHow can one “be a communist” when the entire idea is predicated on a small central authority telling the rest of the country what to do and how to do it? Or did you mean “one of the small ruling elite” communists?
- Biganon 2y ago> the entire idea That's absolutely not "the entire idea" of communism. There's this idea of, you know... communes.
- kolinko 2y agoWhat? Central/eastern Europe than remembers communism definitely considers communists bad people.
- golergka 2y agoMost people from eastern Europe agree that communists should not be treated differently than Nazis.
- Biganon 2y agoWhich is a completely stupid idea, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on. Nazism is intrinsically violent and atrocious. Communism has been the excuse that made it possible for terrible dictators to commit mass-scale atrocities, but nothing in the writings of Marx encourages those atrocities. The whole "communism is just as bad as nazism" is a trope that needs to die already. Stalin was bad. His entourage was bad. A group of peasants who want to collectivize their work tools are not bad, have never been, and never will be.
- _yb2s 2y agoThen why did all of the other countries that try it also commit mass murder and conduct struggle sessions, etc.? Nazism and Communism are extremely different, but both fundamentally involve dehumanizing entire groups of people based on identities- which makes violent atrocities inevitable. I do not think Marx intended to justify violent atrocities at all, but unknown to him they logically follow from his philosophy, and are essential for putting it into practice. It is the most awful philosophical trap in human history: one where people with compassion, a sense of justice, and a desire to make the world better end up sucked into a bad idea that inevitably turns out horrific.
- thiagoharry 2y agoFor the same reason that capitalism also developed by means of violent atrocities, genocide and murder. And it also would do all this again whenever this is needed to maintain itself, so any competing system would need to defend itself in acts that would be portrayed as authoritarian and violent in capitalist societies, even if these societies handwave and find excuses for the same acts if done in capitalism. This is part of the power struggle inherent to the economical system.