I didnt argue that we arent seeing it. I just pointed out that you hadnt actually made the argument either.
The various red hat, Proud Boys, etc are the same brown shirts. Cant speak out against the GOP or Trump or you get shut down. Dont teach, televise, profess, cover, promote what the red hats want, and they turn to the same strategies your Marxists use.
You are even doing it in your post to me. You didnt even bother to understand what I actually said, you just attacked. Attempting to silence me before any flaw could be highlighted in your stance in an effort to shut down free speech.
Everyone must comply with your views or they are evil, sound familiar?
Your response will be telling. One of the identifying traits of marxism is to avoid self awareness and just to attack.
I watched in 2015 as campuses, most publicly the UC system, violently shut down conservative speakers while labeling them Nazis, and abusing people wearing red hats or patriotic symbols, and they went unpunished and unchecked. I warned then the red hats would start showing up with baseball bats of their own; after months of that shite, that's what happened.
I don't recall groups of conservatives showing up at Democrat-sponsored events to do the same, do you?
I also see no corollary to the year of leftist violence we've witnessed, the outright sanctioning and encouraging of it by Dem politicians at state and federal levels, blanket media collusion in outright hiding by omission that violence. Contrast the outright covering for and advocacy of that continued violence by the left - politicians and media alike - with the blanket condemnation of the capitol breach by a smattering of Republican/right-wing protesters. There's no -tit-tat analogy there.
I invite everyone I engage to rebut my argument, period. In closing,
I plainly invited you to express your disagreement rather than another Beetlejuice comment, did I not? Don't lead with a slight and you won't mistake mine as trying to shut you up.
I've had 60 years and the good fortune to study things that interest me. The right overuses "commie/socialist" and the left overuses "racist/Nazi,etc"; I don't throw around the term Marxist unless there are pervasive indicators of an actual Marxist movement. Likewise, people that openly claim to be Marxists, I take at their word.
There has never been a more evil doctrine than Marxism and whether people who advocate the position do so ignorantly or knowingly, they can stop carrying the bucket if they don't the paint on them.
Even during the '60s-70s, there wasn't broad-based excuse-making for or condoning the violence by either party, only the fringe indulged. Mostly, everyone understood that allowing or ignoring violence ensured greater violence. The classic internationalist Marxism based upon class struggle was unable to get serious toehold in the U.S. (or Europe), the place where the world voted with their feet to attempt to enter. The fallout from the socialist horrors of WWII and post era, dramatically improved standards of living in the West, and Civil Rights and Voting acts further blunted the class struggle message here and abroad. The Keynesisans had to take a back seat.
The Marxists adapted. Just as the fascist model of socialism evolved to a nationalist (not internationalist) movement, and in the case of Germany, also a racialist, ethnic model (not mirrored in Italy), the internationalists adopted new strategies for the West based upon race and equity. Casually, it is a term many mistake or accept as synonymous with equality, but are very different things. Equity, the basis of the alleged race struggle, requires destruction of capitalism and the constitutional republic; we know this because they tell us this. Again, I take Marxists at their word. It was evident early on with BLM that the concern wasn't simply blacks killed by police (actually in less proportion than their involvement in violent crime would indicate), but establishing a narrative that white people were inherently racist and kept the "people of color" under their thumb via systemic white supremacism, none the more evident that in the very constitution itself.
In the 1990s this was embodied as Critical Race Theory, though it found roots in socialist theorists decades earlier. It's a vile doctrine that makes assumptions about people based entirely upon race and should be easily discounted from both sides: from whites - offensively portrayed as privileged by their very race and willingly or ignorantly striving to preserve the 'systemic' suppression, to blacks (and other POC) offensively portrayed as too damned dumb to know just how repressed they are. The 1619 Project is simply an ahistorical hoax and extension of the lie. Yet, CRT (and now the 1619) has been increasingly pushed into every level of the education system which Marxists have long known is the golden egg; program the young minds and you will intellectually outbreed the constitutional Republic mind. Push it into every crevice of government, military, and public life via progressive policy and media. By carrot or stick, leverage the policy into the corporate world. No term is too vile with which to slander opponents and justify the end. This is what every socialist/fascist/authoritarian regime has done.
There's no precedent in my 60 years for the broad acceptance by a political party, of outright Marxist politicians and doctrine, that violence is permitted and we should parrot anti-liberty memes because you're pigmented. This transcends politics as usual, and is a different animal. If I were a modern Marxist, I couldn't possibly be happier with the state of affairs in the U.S. and would roil with laughter that our FBI and military leadership is looking under beds for white supremacists.
