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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: HA Goodman is not a progressive or member of the left. Never has been. [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)40. History doesn't repeat itself...but it rhymes.
With their purposeful enablement of right-wing populist extremism over center-left incrementalism, Americas latter-day revolutionaries are behaving like Weimar-era German communists, who, on Joseph Stalins orders, attacked Social Democrats as social fascists rather than battle Nazi brown-shirts. Clearing the way for an actual fascist to take power would heighten the contradictions of capitalism, a dialectical Leninist concept holding that conditions must deteriorate drastically in order to wake the proletariat from its slumber.
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HA Goodman is not a progressive or member of the left. Never has been. [View all]
NCTraveler
Jan 2017
OP
Olbermann isn't the one claiming we are using Red Scare tactics. The author of that piece is.
kcr
Jan 2017
#3
I thought it was pretty clear I was talking about the author of the piece. nt.
NCTraveler
Jan 2017
#4
I don't know what ppl are going on about. You'd have to have serious reading comprehension problems
dionysus
Jan 2017
#34
this "everybody critical of Hillary is in league with Russia" stuff is batshit insane. nt
m-lekktor
Jan 2017
#25
Sad that so many on DU fell for HAHA Goodman's war against Hillary Clinton as he pretended to be
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
#29
I'd noticed! And they did so with the anger and aggression you'd expect a Republican to defend
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
#32