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Should the Jan 6 insurrection be compared to the Beer Hall Putsch?
What with the impatience and/or raging despair many people have expressed over prosecutions for the inciters of the January 6 assault on the Capitol and attempt to overturn the election, it’s sort of understandable why our day of domestic terrorism … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged $300 child credit, Alan Bullock, Beer Hall Putsch, GOP, Hitler, Hitler style propaganda, propaganda, rising inflation myth, Steve Bannon, Study in Tyranny, Trump, Weimar Republic
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“Freedom for the supporters of the government alone…”
After a lifetime of pretty well ignoring the history of revolutionary communism except for fascinating family anecdotes — one represented by a photograph of Leon Trotsky taken by my Uncle Lou in 1936 or so; it hangs on my wall … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Albert Glotzer, communism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Internationale, Lenin, Leninism, Lev Davidovitch, Maoism, Marxism, Robert Payne, Rosa Luxemburg, Stalinism, Trotsky, Weimar Republic
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Last night instead of watching Trump, I read this…
…book review in the New York Times by Jennifer Szalai. It’s the second volume of a biography by Volker Ullrich. It is entitled “Hitler: Downfall, 1939-1945”. I could not shake the notion I was reading this review not last night … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged fascism, Hitler, Jennifer Szalai, Nazis, Third Reich, Trump, Volker Ullrich, Weimar Republic
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