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EDIJester's avatar

Brilliant.

The Nazi hates the banker because he is a Jew, The communist hates the Jew because he is a banker.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

"A politics of anger attracts the angry. Especially frustrated lower-tier members of elites who are willing to burn down what exists to displace those above them. To displace the currently successful. A social pattern that Marx also exemplifies. This is very much social justice as moralised social strategy."

The nub of all of it.

This explains why many people are attracted to Marxist-Progressive politics. It certainly explains why I was, for a long time.

One is taught that Other People (rich people, straight people, capitalist people, have-more-stuff-and-friends people) are the reason for one's problems.

Those of us vulnerable to this kind of thinking take it and run with it.

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