I’ve also heard this phrase so many times in #Germany but couldn’t really point my finger at what is wrong with it.
A Moldovan anarchist told me once that at an international #anarchist congress a couple of years ago, Eastern European arguments and stories were denied as “the wrong theory”.
Gosh! We have the lived experience, a proof that your theory doesn’t work! This all is a form of gaslighting
https://open.substack.com/pub/hearttoheartwithana/p/but-that-was-not-real-communismsocialism
@nastasime Oh, yes. The platform was exposed for having a good number of Nazi newsletters, and when confronted, the people who ran it waved their hands, free speech, open society, blah blah blah. And since then, MORE Nazis have signed up.
A friend of mine who runs a popular podcast was courted by them--and their promotional materials included their successful Nazi accounts. She specializes in antifascism, so. No.
I'll try to find a link.
@nastasime Here's one
@nastasime They're also a grift, like so many other online platforms that want to change journalism as we know it, or whatever. It is my understanding--and no, I don't have a link--that a lot of writers who were courted received preferential treatment that the journalist off the street wouldn't get.
There is just no excuse for anyone who claims to be pro-democracy/antifascism to be on that platform when there are so many others.
*Edited for spelling...Jesus, what is wrong with me this week?*
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