an analogy: take something almost no one would object to, like “ice cream Tuesday” at work, where every tues everyone gets free ice cream. Now what if at your company you get bad ice cream, plus you get beaten half to death, every Tuesday.
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You don’t actually object to ice cream, or ice cream Tuesday; you object to being beaten half to death. You call it being beaten, but they call it “ice cream Tuesday.” And so.... you make sure no one ever eats ice cream, but you ignore all the beatings.
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“When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and moulded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation . . . “
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“. . . to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction.”
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“Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed people elsewhere in the service of the men who took advantage of the popular ferment in Russia in 1917 to seize State power.”
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“One major ideological weapon employed to this end has been the claim that the State managers are leading their own society and the world towards the socialist ideal . . . a lie of mammoth proportions as history has revealed since the earliest days of the Bolshevik regime. “
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“The taskmasters have attempted to gain legitimacy and support by exploiting the aura of socialist ideals and the respect that is rightly accorded them, to conceal their own ritual practice as they destroyed every vestige of socialism.”
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“As for the world’s second major propaganda system, association of socialism with the Soviet Union and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce conformity and obedience to the State capitalist institutions . . .”
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”. . . to ensure that the necessity to rent oneself to the owners and managers of these institutions will be regarded as virtually a natural law, the only alternative to the ‘socialist’ dungeon.”
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Coulda just linked to that 10 tweets ago ;)
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Replying to @AustenAllred @rgigger
haha true. Would’ve been less cathartic for me though :)
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