@TrivialGravitas @sarahdoingthing @iamcuriousblue @jaspergregory I have a pet theory that a lot of it is uppers + benzos.
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@St_Rev@schakalsynthetc LWA is a *psychological* statement, not a political one. the terror was politically authoritarian. -
@St_Rev@schakalsynthetc but the degree of infighting suggests that it wasn't authoritarian, authoritarians all tend to agree. -
@TrivialGravitas@schakalsynthetc RWA is a psychological term (actually agitprop). LWA rarely contemplated. Both broken constructs. -
@TrivialGravitas@schakalsynthetc Authoritarians agree *once there is a stable hierarchy*. Until then it's all against all. Come on.
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@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas I'm not saying the Terror and Stalin aren't left, tho, I'm saying 21C US isn't 20C Russia or 18C France -
@schakalsynthetc@TrivialGravitas The progs are the institutional revolutionary party of this time and place. -
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas revolutionary how, tho? fanatical, sure, but that's not the same thing -
@schakalsynthetc@TrivialGravitas It's all purges all the time, or haven't you been paying attention? -
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas purges are fanaticism, there is such a thing as fanaticism for the status quo ante. revolution is a red herring imo -
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas the Terror and Stalin were all of left, revolutionary and authoritarian, not arguing that at all -
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas but they were radically restructuring economies and societies, progs aren't, is my point -
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas the distinction doesn't really matter *morally* but it does matter analytically (imo at least)
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