WHAT is amusing about the screams of Republican-fascists of "cancel culture" is that they were the original practitioners of "cancel culture" in American during the 20th century. They were the ones who put anarchists, communists, socialists in prison for publishing stuff they didn't like during the First World War and after, they were the ones who booted one of the few arguably great figures of American Socialism, Victor Berger out of the House of Representatives, the House going far beyond what has been done to the thug Marjorie Taylor Greene. They were the ones who pretty much ran the red-scares, the blacklists, HUAC and the persecution of communists and those who were accused of communism and the usefully vague category of "fellow travelers" in the 40s-60s.
Much of the stupidest of "free speech-press" advocacy was done in a reaction to conservative, capitalist, Republican and, now, Republican-fascist suppression of speech and publication and sending literature through the mail as well as getting it kicked off of the radio, TV and movies.
I fell for that "free speech-press" stuff as did anti-anti-communists, because the anti-communist side was so full of American fascists (white supremacists and segregationists) and capitalists and opportunistic sons of bitches (the ideological grandparents of Cruz, Hawley, Jordan, Greene, etc.) I fell for it hard, along with the self-interested and opportunistic mythology that arose around the innocent victims of the red scares and purges and black-lists, though those who I really had and have affection for were mostly figures in show business who were hardly political, Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford.
Far less appropriate figures whose passion narratives I was sold were the actual Communists who were mostly full blown Stalinists, whose moral character is indistinguishable from those who were full blown Nazis. I have come to the point where I have no problem with the suppression of Stalinism anymore than I would the suppression of Nazism. That is as true today as it would have been if I had thought as hard about the meaning of the history of the 20th century dictatorships as I have since done. I have no problem with that being "cancelled" kept off the air-waves, kept off the internet, kept out of the movies, or out of the US Mail. I have no problem with people who favor that being held up to the disdain and derision it deserves. Even those dear old commies of Hollywood-Broadway lore. Though anything they happen to write or say or act which does not promote anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic ideology should not be suppressed, certainly not by the government, the only entity covered and prohibited by the First Amendment.
ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THAT THE SUPPORTERS OF GENOCIDAL, OPPRESSIVE GANGSTER REGIMES OF ANY IDEOLOGICAL PRETENTIONS HAVE A RIGHT TO TRY TO OVERTURN EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY IS AN ENEMY OF EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH SUPPRESSING THEIR PROMOTION OF THEIR IDEOLOGY.
I have no problem with the "cancelling" or suppression of our domestic fascists, white supremacists, Republican-fascists and other enemies of egalitarian democracy, I AM A GREAT BIG SUPPORTER OF THE TOTAL SUPPRESSION OF FASCISM, NEO NAZISM, COMMUNISM AS THEY ATTEMPT TO GAIN POWER TO DESTROY EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY. I am as big a supporter of the suppression of the total idiocy of anarchism because there is no faster route to gangster fascism than the lack of democratically controlled civil authority INCLUDING A WELL REGULATED POLICE FORCE AND MILITARY. Reading the early writings of the anarchists, what would become fascists and Nazis and many of the early communists and socialists, tracing the evolution of those who held those ideological positions as they transitioned, often going from Marxist to fascist or Republican-fascist, in some cases right on to neo-Nazism gives you pause in believing the claims that they are really ideological opposites instead of the mere rivals in anti-democracy they are. Reading Emma Goldman in her own words, in full, as was made possible by going online and reading her actual words, was a shocking and complete eye-opener for me. Especially her adoration of the proto-Nazi, proto-fascist Nietzsche explicitly due to his negation of morality. She was hardly a believer in equality, she was a friggin' snob and a total idiot untethered from reality. And she was hardly the only one.
I have pointed out before that I think the old-fashioned linear graph of political identity that has Nazism on one end and Communism on the other, with various other named ideologies working back or forward to a center of "democracy" is entirely wrong. There are anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic promotions of gangsterism as government and there is egalitarian democracy. Anything that isn't egalitarian democracy is merely, to one extent or another, the promotion of gangsterism, whether that be a medieval monarchy, an imperial system, the "dictatorship of the proletariat (yeah, right) or some form of fascism or Nazism.
Well, by conviction and by declaration I am a radical egalitarian democrat, I hold it to be the only really legitimate government, all others are not legitimate, the extent to which a democracy deviates from egalitarianism is the extent to which it is illegitimate, as can be seen in the Republican-fascist suppression of voter equality, that form of "democracy" is rampant under our antiquated Constitution.
I hold that We The People have a right to have egalitarian democracy protected from liars and con men and decievers who would exploit our worst character flaws and fears to con us out of egalitarian democracy, that is what the entire Trump phenomonon was, a warning as to how susceptible American democracy is to that and our own domestic, longstanding and wildly successful indigenous fascist tradition. A tradition that goes right back to the First and Second Continental Congresses, which is embedded in our Constitution by the self-interest of the slave holders and the Northern financial powers. Due to that legal power and the longstanding habits of the American nation, those are the gangsters who will succeed where the meat-headed Marxists never had or will have a chance here. We have every right to cancel their chances to do that again through the media WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES, TO EACH OTHER, TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES AND NEPHEWS TO SUPPRESS ALL ENEMIES OF EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, IT IS A MORAL DUTY THAT OUT WEIGHS THE IDIOTICALLY INADEQUATE LANGUAGE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
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