/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I've been thinking about how critiques of fascism and imperialism are re-appropriated by the right, often unconsciously. Example, colonel Jessup in a few good men, he's obviously the bad guy but go to the comments section of a video on the scene of "you can't handle the truth" and you will see a bunch of people defending him. It's like in jarhead when they are watching the helicopter scene from apocalypse now, originally conceived as an anti war film, they are comparing the americans in vietnam to the nazis which is why they play wagner, but now its being celebrated uncritically as "america, fuck yeah" by a bunch of marines. Another example is starship troopers memes used by /pol/, clearly the movie is lampooning fascism and us imperialism.

What I think explains this is that fascism, as Walter Benjamin says, is the 'the aestheticization of politics'. The difference is revolutionary progressive politics makes art political while reaction makes politics "artistic".

>Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. (…) Mankind, which in Homer’s time was a spectacle for the Olympian gods, has become one for itself. (…) Communism responds by politicizing art.

Because of this heavy emphasis on aesthetics anything which uses the aesthetics of fascism, even from a critical point of view, functionally sort of becomes fascist, because fascism is largely aesthetics to begin with. It's like pornography, yes its just a depiction of sex but that doesn't mean the actors aren't actually having sex. This is why parodies of fascism can't work because the parody often indistinguishable from the real thing. The only critiques of reactionary politics I've seen that don't fall into this are both dramatic (not parodies or comedies) and incredibly hamfisted in that they spell out FASH BAD in bold, flashing capital letters, ex: "V for Vendetta" the movie not comic book.

Why can't rightoids distinguish parody? Is it purposeful (ex: BaneposPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How are the workers of the world supposed to unite if they cannot even agree to a single unified language?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfUu1WmiTo&ab_channel=TLDRNewsGlobal

I'm genuinely curious, but when did Andreas Malm get interested in climate change?

/leftypol/ told me i should always support Nationalism outside the imperial core, but isn't it a simplistic view?
When is Nationalism good and when is it bad?
Why the iranian revolution based but the Afghan struggle against a foreign country not?
Why is it ok for Iran but not for Checenya?
Isn't the Yugolav balcanization also a struggle for self determination? How about the prague spring or the hungarian counter revolution?
Where do i draw the line?

There has been a cycle of economic collapses every decade or two, is it for the last hundred years maybe hundreds of years, all I remember is the recent part of the story these collapses, like the dot com bubble in the 2000 or the stock market crash pf 2008 because of real estate loans or some shit, these regular collapses have been happening because of one thing, but, we are overdue for another and the thing is, this time its not going to be because of one thing but at least a few the consumer credit card debt + other shit i cant remember atm. Can any one give their insight?
As far as I can tell there are multiple bubbles this time, combined with near zero energy prices for middle class and higher where they usually sell back to the grid they have an even bigger problem an techno-economic one. Maybe they'll try plaster it with UBI. We could have had UBI since the 80s

Should they be deprogrammed (especially when they've been extensively brainwashed or blinded by mainstream neoliberal progressive ideology)? Should they be left alone, even though it means that you're risking their lives (they're absolutely going to consume the blue pill should they be extensively indoctrinated)?

Pic: low budget, but sums my argument clearly

Show support to our borger king bro trashing breadtube stupidity.

You guys are going to read the book anyway for free online

https://www.amazon.com/BreadTube-Serves-Imperialism-Examining-Psuedo-Socialism/dp/B09798771Q

Can anyone please explain to me what the fuck this even is? I've tried watching videos on it and I still don't know what it's supposed to be about. At this point I'm not even sure if it even exists? Is it a glowop?

I just wanna know.
Why are more young people beginning to skew towards liberalism? And because of that, liberalism became trendy. More and more people are identifying themselves with neoliberal idpol tags, such as being bi, being gay, being black, they/them/his, etc etc.
And how are we going to save future generations from the toxic encroaches of liberalism?

In this thread we will strive for an objective, materialist analysis of the American Revolutionary War. Was it progressive? Was it a true liberal revolution against the feudal and monarchist leadership of the British empire? Was it a reactionary attempt by the ruling slave class to protect the institution of slavery and the expansion of colonialism, as many others claim?

In America, it's unbelievably taboo to ask questions like this, but leftypol is capable of being a lot more objective, and brushing aside propaganda than the average liberal space, so I want to know what y'all think.

Also, any good books or articles on the subject?