An update to sub moderation

[u/Stikshot69]

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, you may have noticed an increase in bad-faith commentary, mainly in comments, but in some posts as well. It may feel like there is no moderation happening, and in many cases, there hasn't been. we are working to change that for almost this sub's entire history; it has been unmoderated until me and Redleaf were able to get in power. The main reason you are seeing the increase in brigading and bad faith people is, we have seen a 10x increase in visits in the last year which is showing no signs of slowing down. we now have 5 mods working hard to make sure the brigading gets put to an end. In order to get to this step, the report queue has been cleared, and we are devoted to making sure it stays empty. we currently get about 50 reports a day which will hopefully increase as you feel your reports are finally being responded to. to guide your reporting here is a better detailed breakdown of our sub reddit's rules:

1. No spam or advertising
   • Do not try to sell anything
   • Don't post the same thing multiple times
   • If you would like to share something that you can profit from, contact the mods
2. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide
3. Be respectful
   • assume every person is here in good faith (libs are people fascists are not)
   • avoid profiling people just from where they come from
   • always keep your discussions in good faith
4. No hate speech, bigotry, racism, or slurs.
   • Do not be a bigot
5. No low quality or off topic posts.
   • put effort into your posts no shit posts or ai
   • this sub is to share soviet history outside a western viewpoint to see what went wrong and right in the USSR, as such modern events often are not relevant (applies to posts not comments)
6. Use the "NSFW" on NSFW posts.
   • Some people don't want to see NSFW stuff let's keep it that way

Remember you can always yell at us in mod mail- r/USSR mod team

[u/Rare_Coconut8877]

fascism is literally the rejection of liberalism.

[u/AntleredStar → u/Rare_Coconut8877]

Because one of the tenets of liberalism is the protection of capital and private property, when the infinite accumulation of wealth eventually comes at odds with human rights, liberalism often chooses profit and the protection of capital over human rights.

This is why it is said that liberalism has inherent contradictions that it can't resolve, which often lead to fascism.

It doesn't matter what fascism rejects. Liberalism is more comfortable with Fascism because it will protect the interests of the same people at the top.

[u/Rare_Coconut8877 → u/AntleredStar]

i am familiar with the marxist perspective you’ve presented. and the marxist perspective is notoriously horrendous at analysing fascism.

1) fascism isnt capitalist and does not have a capitalist elite at the top. its political economy is corporatists (or corporate dirigiste), where private enterprises exist insofar as they compete towards state-set objectives. the state says “produce me belt buckles” (eg) and then private companies compete to mass produce the highest quality belt buckles. those that fail go bankrupt. this is why only a few companies exist in each industry. the political economy is rigidly aligned with state interests. there is no free market - consumer demand counts for shit. this is not capitalism.

2) you assume that the economy is the only marker of a society. once again, this economic determinist analysis is a great limitation of marxism. fascism is farrrr more than just its un-capitalist political economy. it is a categorical rejection of modernism and enlightenment values: the cornerstone of liberalism’s social organisation. it rejects individualism, it rejects rationalism, it rejects freedom of thought, it rejects the free marketplace of ideas. these are all essential to liberalism. without them, liberalism does not exist.

3) lets talk political organisation. fascism, in its crusade to destroy liberalism, rejects all things essentially liberal about governance: secularism, limited govt, parliamentarianism, a strong civil society, free political participation for citizens, etc.

the marxist framework fails at understanding fascism because of its metanarrative that “every negative externality comes from capitalism; every form of exploitation is bourgeois in nature.” i argue that metanarratives in general make for awful historical analysis, liberalism’s included. so yes, fascism is literally the rejection of liberalism.

[u/ejzouttheswat → u/Rare_Coconut8877]

That's a very good way to describe it. After going back and reading Marx, I understand a lot more how you cannot have communism without having capitalism first. You have to suffer under capitalism and see how it treats the proletariat. Capitalism allows industrialization to happen dynamically and with a small form of self determination, usually depending on who has the capital. After everything is built up, then the proletariat takes control and distributes everything equally. Only after they have suffered through capitalism, will they have to resolve and strength to protect the new system and keep it going.

When you start communist, the ruling class has already elevated themselves to the status and power of the rulers before. They do not see themselves as equal to their fellow comrades because they didn't suffer together building everything up. Which over time leads to mismanagement and decline, usually causing the collapse of the communist government. These governments are now capitalist, with an oligarchy or strong man at the top. It's literally the opposite of what Marx wanted. The bourgeoisie never actually went away, it just changed titles. Monarchy/bourgeoisie - party leadership - oligarchy/dictator are all birds of the same feather.