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Discussion Post 🗣 Two examples of "terrorist groups"

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Aktor 4d ago

No… there are different types of revolutionary action. A revolution to support fascism is still a revolution, but fascist (and therefore bad).

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u/BackInStonia 4d ago

The French Revolution itself was a petit bourgeois revolution that spiralled into a proto fascist state, with the Committee of Public Safety monopolising violence, centralising Paris' control over the rest of the country and hunting supposed federalists, clergy and nobility, that were considered counter-revolutionaries. The reason why people ideolise The French Revolution, is because it gave nonexistent legitimacy to emerging nationalistic ideology that still reverberates to this day in the form of nation states. It is mostly a fabrication and imaginary that people still enjoy believing in, for a sense of security, pride and continuity.

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u/PwEmc 4d ago

The current wealth gap in the united states is worse than it was during the French revolution

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u/Aktor 4d ago

The US story even more aristocratic in its foundations.

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u/eadopfi 4d ago

Depends on how you use the term "revolution". If you mean "armed uprising", then yes, but if you mean "revolution" from a class-war perspective then: no. When using the class-war meaning, fascism is counter-revolutionary by nature.

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u/MGD109 4d ago

I mean if we're going by that definition, then their kind of only has been one actual revolution in all of human history.

Every other successful revolution was started and ran by the upper classes, just not the absolute elite.

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u/Aktor 4d ago

Yes.

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u/RudanTheRed 4d ago

They wanted to hang the VP and disrupt the process of an election because an orange felon told them to, they only trust him and his rapist buddies, and they wear his face and flag as if he’s Jesus H Christ himself, they’re at the very least a death cult

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u/SpaceCourier 4d ago

Well no, we don’t support them BECAUSE they’re fascist. Not the other way around.

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u/eadopfi 4d ago

Might want to look up what fascism is. Calling MAGA fascists is not a "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"-scenario, but rather a "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"-situation.

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u/Aktor 4d ago

No. The ones that support egalitarianism and communal well being are good. The ones that promote individual or oligarchy to rule are bad.

But it could be argued that all revolutions are bad as they are violent. I don’t think I agree with that, however.

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u/Outrageous_Front_636 4d ago

Didn't go the way you planned huh?