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@[Dislocation] are you actually reading @[Error]'s latest autobiography?

Why do all the talentless people who have nothing to say and are artistically more irrelevant than Di Maio in Foreign Affairs choose Dance/Italo Disco as their "genre"? Why is there lately such a gangrenous explosion of self-promotional trash of such low quality that it doesn't even make anyone laugh?

@[lector] stimulating debate and exchanging viewpoints is a bit like the water of life for this site, so I’m glad my intervention pleased you.

Correctly, it’s not about nitpicking each other, but regarding the Russian socio-political landscape, it can’t be denied that practically none of the early Bolshevik or Soviet leaders were true proletarians; the most glaring exception was perhaps Khrushchev, who coincidentally did what he did during the XX Congress of the CPSU… But let’s leave these “details” aside…

I understand your argument, but I believe that the "measuring stick" (French Revolution – October Revolution) doesn't work very well, for the reasons already expressed; the point is that as revolutions, contexts, and consequences, they are two very different worlds. One gives rise to a Europe that is at least secularized (I know I’m oversimplifying), while the other produces a powerful absolutist elite and a continental power that is effectively imperialist.

Our world is not the best of possible worlds, and at the same time, it is: actually, such an evaluation, which sounds annoyingly moralistic, makes no sense. And to understand the good that any revolution has left behind, one must heal from the disease of ideologicalism; one must dismantle historiographical myths; in this specific case, one must thoroughly study the strategic framework of the two World Wars and the Cold War. How do you make a serious synthesis when in a Democratic Country there are politicians and intellectuals who still consider the Soviet Union as the savior of Europe, the partisan resistance as the definitive and irreplaceable moment of the fight against Nazifascism, invoke Ukraine in 2022 as the standard-bearer of freedom in the East, and think that Mussolini “also did some good things”?

Perhaps it’s just a matter of generational turnover: one day, ideologies and ideologicalism will die, and only facts, numbers, and names will remain. Or maybe not; perhaps this too, like Communism itself, is a utopia. We’ll see.

The stuff you label or conceptually associate with fascism is something that predates it on which fascism was grafted: corruption, mafia, oppression, exploitation, inequality, intimidation, violence, interests, lobbying, corporatism, the human society of the 20th century. Add in a realm of miserable provinciality, a long-frustrated and never-suppressed colonial ambition, the anger of having consumed mud and gas for 3 years without achieving practically anything, a fractious and quarrelsome opposition, and throw in the demands that originate FROM THE LEFT of a statesman more skillful than Hitler, and you’ll have your damn twenty years. Like Nazism, like Communism, Fascism doesn’t sprout from the ground and doesn’t regenerate like a liver lobe; you need at least, but I mean, at the very least, a World War (and what a World War it was…) to even think about how to put the people under pressure and start maneuvering your monster.

I live in prosperity because I live in and with what I’ve earned, for which I’ve bled blood and health, and I’ve personally had more problems and seen more filth in the so-called left-wing environments, I can assure you. And I’m not just talking about unions…

@[macaco], I spent a good part of my adolescence in the antifa & “antagonist” circles, if only because there was some seriously cool gisvalda around; they could easily be defined as infamous squadristi, but when I think of them sabotaging TAV construction sites or smashing urban furniture, I’m inclined to see them as a perverse manifestation of social parasitism, and calling them "fascists" is almost a compliment.

@[lector]
From Revolutions, by definition, there is no turning back. The French Revolution is framed by a European political situation (which you overlook or ignore) that made the political-military hegemony France enjoyed on the continent the perfect ground for the collapse of the Ancien Régime. Essentially, with no more Spain and Empire to fight, and England isolated from continental dynamics, absolutism, with its dynastic and post-feudal politics, was simply unable to guarantee the status quo and face modernity. Nationalism, in the post-restoration years, did the rest.
In Russia, the collapse of the Tsarist Ancien Régime led to the replacement of one elite with another, and the Revolution was more a matter of form than substance. Unless we consider revolutionary the much more pervasive and violent way in which Bolshevism handled dissent and catalyzed resources.
That said, you smell fascism because you have it in your nostrils. You need an enemy: if it’s not fascism, it’s neoliberalism.
Fascism is dead: its soul was captured while fleeing like a dog, shot in the face, the pig was hung by its feet. While the reds rejoiced, fascism was gutted by the Constituent Assembly, and its pieces scattered in the brain-toilet of some idiot defeated by history, dying and dead with it. Do you know why the word "antifascism" does not exist in the Constitution? Because if you have a democracy (like we do), antifascism is unnecessary, it’s useless, it’s necromancy, it’s a morbid desire to piss on a corpse. Don’t tell me that the FN failures are fascists, please, because if that’s fascism, then I’m Gioacchino Murat. Those are infamous people living a perpetual carnival, which our State has institutionalized and neutralized, with their 0,shit% they get in elections. Some go to the zoo to laugh at the monkeys grooming each other and to take pictures of the depressed lions with their testicles in the air, others (many fewer) vote for Forza Nuova. Is that stuff fascism? Where is the fascism? In the green pass? In the mafia-terron-paternalistic assistentism of the RDC? In the Puritanism that doesn’t want you to pronounce the word “ricchione”? In Meloni, who will harvest an electoral crop only because she has skillfully opposed a left that has been so incredibly shit for over two years that it got put under European trusteeship? Where does the stink come from? From the market economy that couldn’t care less about politics? From Russia? From debaser?

I hardly think I've read it but I (obviously in paper format...) have it somewhere.
First thing first, I won't give you a rating for the review because the body of it is one of the longest paragraphs ever seen, and reading it almost killed me... You should have added a few more full stops, damn!
That said, Koba's figure is fascinating for understanding the traits of violent Russian authoritarianism, which dates back from the Tsars of Muscovy all the way to the current tightness of 2022. It's a common thread that, in the case of Soviet communism, connects to the infamous lie of the "people's" revolution, which was actually an oligarchic coup led by a handful of bourgeois eager to replace the patriarchal and hieratic Tsarist system of control with a secular state religion shaped by Marxist utopias... It was an authoritarian approach of a bourgeois and elitist stamp; indeed, Lenin and Trotsky were bourgeois, and Dzerzhinsky was aristocratic; in late 19th century Georgia, even a family like that of Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a cobbler who owned a business with a dozen employees and spoke, besides Georgian, Russian and Armenian, was to be considered anything but proletarian... The non-working-class character of the Bolshevik elite initially, and later the Soviet elite, is never remembered enough, especially by nostalgics of the Soviet empire, and it also helps explain the bureaucratic perfection of a system that saw the Party at the top of everything... It was nonetheless "true communism," if only because Marx and Engels first theorized and accepted, prior to the definitive abolition of the "State," a so-called "transition period" in which power was "transitorily" in the hands of the workers' Party; the Marxist legitimation of the quasi-aristocratic power of the communist leaders was maintained at least until the 27th Congress, which anticipated for the year 2000 (!) the definitive transition to "true" communism...
Hitler is more horrifying also because Nazism was not simply a natural evolution of a generational class authoritarianism that has always been disconnected from the reality of the middle and lower classes that characterize the Russian socio-political landscape, but because it was an interpreter and catalyst of resentments, frustrations, fears, and claims of a highly productive society, intellectually advanced, and technologically cutting-edge that had been stunned by the trauma of World War I... There's no escaping it; one cannot understand Hitler and Nazism without a solid grasp of the war of 1914-1918 and especially of its genesis...
Reading the theories written in Mein Kampf or the conclusions of the Wannsee Conference, one can understand why the names of the extermination camps are more "famous" than those of the gulags; something that should not take ANYTHING away from the horror of the systematic, deliberate, and, in terms of numbers, chilling political extermination process carried out by Comrade Koba solely to ensure the continuity of his absolute power.

No, there’s no need for any accolades; here there’s no dream to keep alive, there’s just a stuffed sfincione filled with crap and described in the classic and embarrassing style of the pseudo-fan/promoter/friend-who-driv es-the-sound-bus/dealer who clearly has nothing to say.. Which is exactly what this "track" has to say..

Something doesn’t add up: either you’re a too-stupid fan to be able to write anything decent, or you’re the author (although "author" is a huge word in this case...) who is too incompetent to promote themselves properly.
In any case, commenting on the lyrics of Baustelle makes less sense than doing exegesis on the ingredients list of Farina 00.

A quick review, totally off the cuff.. A pleasant and well-acted film that deserved a bit more commentary..

Discovered by chance, listened to this record by chance... In my opinion, it’s quite deserving, and not a little... Not so much for how the songs work individually, but for the atmosphere it manages to create, intimate & introspective yet at the same time vast and psychedelic... I really don’t care about the musical references you cram into practically every line that detract a lot from the substance of your review; I simply find that these two have built a pop layered with rather intelligent electronics, with a few slightly clever & catchy solutions that never slip into the banal or predictable... Almost sensual in their near perfection.
Then maybe I didn’t understand a thing, but who cares, right?

A good pile of mierda...