@AnarchoBolshevik
@lemmygrad.mlAlthough certain industries remained reserves for skilled white labor such as trucking, [Fascist] firms increasingly looked to African workers to provide lowcost, if not free, labor for their enterprises. A 1940 survey reports that about 750,000 Africans were employed in construction, roadbuilding, and agriculture. More were recruited into the military and private businesses as well. Podestà estimates that over 1 million Africans were employed in the [Fascist] colonial machine, about 10% of the African population.¹⁷⁰
Forced, unpaid African labor became an important source of financing for [Italy’s] fascist imperial régime.
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Jeff bezos is not sweating these fools because they are the laziest, unemployed, softest losers this world has ever seen.
But I thought that socialism was when you went around massacring millions of innocents for no reason. How do you apply that to a GPA?
their goal was the extermination of entire ethnic groups, not maximizing profits.
As if they never intertwined the two.
British imperialism was an important influence on the Third Reich, as was the exterminatory settler‐colonialism in most of North America. The European invaders, after all, never had to answer for their atrocities, and they reduced North America’s massive indigenous population to a shadow of its former self. That must have been a great example indeed to the Germanic Fascists. What was to prevent them from repeating that success in the East?
And anybody who makes a slight exaggeration like ‘Britain and France were just like the nazis because they were also imperialistic’ is most certainly not ‘the dumbest man alive.’ I’ve seen far worse, far more inappropriate analogies involving the Third Reich yet nobody deployed an unfunny hyperbole like that one.
You are late to the party, I’m afraid. TIK is a joke of a source and all that he proves is that you can make any nonsense sound respectable as long as you state it as elegantly as possible. It is the same trick that Eugene McCarthy used a decade ago to defend his preposterous idea that humans are the hybrids of pigs and chimpanzees.
He quotes selectively from Capital, yet he repeats the same tired assertion that Herr Marx believed that labour can automatically make anything valuable… a misconception already addressed and dismissed in Capital’s first chapter. That cannot be chalked up to an innocent misunderstanding; that is evidence that TIK is a liar.
But if I have yet to convince anybody that TIK is a waste of time, here is a decision that you can make in your everyday life:
You can subscribe to /c/capitalismindecay, get daily anecdotes on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to fascism, rarely spend more than a couple dozen minutes on them (unless, on occasion, you need to immediately check out the sources), and it will always cost you a grand total of $0.00, tops.
You can subscribe to TIKHistory, get sporadic uploads of tedious videos where a willfully dishonest author—so utterly lacking in circumspection that he thinks that almost everything is socialism—mostly spends his time denying that Fascism was capitalist according to his idealist redefinition, and it will cost you $1–10 a month if you join his Patreon page.
This looks like a pretty easy decision to me.
You joke, but many antisocialists seriously think that this is a good argument in favor of capitalism.
As war grew nearer, the SS were permitted the right to use Army land for war games. Safety practices were not followed with Himmler stating that the SS must be used to “being within 50 to 70 meters of the explosions of his own artillery fire.”⁷² For context, in standard military practice “the method of engagement when the target is (rounds will impact) within 600 meters of friendly troops” is considered “danger[ously] close” which indicates a certain degree of risk for friendly personnel.⁷³
Himmler noted that it was sad that prime German youth must sadly be cut down in training accidents, but there was a method behind the idea to ignore safety in war games.⁷⁴ This came from an idea that suggested that the pain endured during training would ensure that when war came the Waffen SS would be ready to perform at their highest possible level and save lives in the long run.
The casualty rates of the SS did not support the notion that the dangerous training methods were effective. Tim Ripley’s analysis of combat on the Eastern Front suggests that some units suffered somewhere “in the region of 75 percent casualty rates.”⁷⁵ These casualty rates are supported by where the SS divisions found themselves in combat. When combat started the Waffen SS commonly found themselves at the tip of the proverbial spear for German assaults.
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Reminds me of Starship Troopers.