/lit/ - Literature

>>18954875
>i am the former [a fascist] and i prefer anarchists
I think they're ontologically similar.

I think communism and Stalinist / Marxist-Leninism (which is really the authentic tradition IMO) has been suppressed in the West more than my conservative friends around here tend to say, and that leads to a lot of confusion about what it really is, which is an ideology conceived as part of the Enlightenment tradition. Universal reason is objectivized in the guise of the inexorable laws of historical progress -- and in power, we are all its servants, including the leader.

It's like what Zizek about applause. Hitler never says "heil myself!" and that would be a joke because it never happened. But Stalin effectively did do that by applauding himself. But in the imaginary subjective experience of these people, there is no difference. Stalin hears all, sees all, how the people live and work, and his vision is our vision, and his thoughts are our thoughts, and he rewards everyone. He even invites everyone to see him in Moscow, and welcomes them, and asks them if they need anything while sitting around tables made of oak.

He gives advice, which the people are grateful for, because they've faced many trials and have a suffered a lot from the hands of many bullies. But now Stalin is the banner flying from the people's fortress, the flame which warms their spirit. And then Stalin says, "isn't our motherland beautiful?"

That's kind of an amazing and beautiful vision. It's a very frightening one, too.

11:05:

https://youtu.be/Net9YgT7qMM

I was just thinking of /pol/ guys who will say "don't you know Stalin made homosexuality illegal," or at least the act of it, like that's supposed to mean something. But this kind of thing reminds me of how divorced people today actually are from a regime like that -- like THAT was somehow the central issue involved. Or the belief that somehow the Stalin system in the USSR was actually governed by the laws that were technically on the books.

I'm pretty sure the laws did not, in fact, protect a lot of people who were thrown in prison for a variety of reasons including no reason at all. I'm also somewhat confident that if life in the USSR at that time was too uncomfortable, and you left and moved to some other country -- and if you were both criticizing them and were prominent enough for the Kremlin to decide you were a threat -- then the laws of your new country weren't a 99% guarantee of your safety. But that's also what's so fascinating about Stalinism to me because it conscripted the whole society, and any 4chan guys who are reading this, if they were living there, weren't getting out of that shit on account of being straight or based or whatever identity you have.

This was far more totalizing and its inner laws -- not the formal laws -- pervaded the entire social body.

And we still don't have a satisfactory theory of this phenomena.

Eyes. Warm light. Also once you notice the flowers you'll start seeing them everywhere. They're like Tribbles.

Same aesthetic as this portrait basically:

https://youtu.be/0hIMfJs5s8E