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If there was one post that perfectly encapsulates Liberal Lemmy-style politics, this would be it (hexbear.net)

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[-] poster596@hexbear.net 97 points 6 days ago

communists: right "too early"
libs: wrong for too long

[-] miz@hexbear.net 86 points 6 days ago

During the Second Red Scare which occurred in the United States in the years that immediately followed the end of World War II, the term "premature anti-fascist" came into currency and it was used to describe Americans who had strongly agitated or worked against fascism, such as Americans who had fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, before fascism was seen as a proximate and existential threat to the United States (which only occurred generally after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and only occurred universally after the attack on Pearl Harbor). The implication was that such persons were either Communists or Communist sympathizers whose loyalty to the United States was suspect.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

The Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

And in 1938, they sold down the river for a ludicrous illusion of Peace in Our Time the only strong, democratic state in Eastern Europe that might have been a deterrent to Hitler’s plans for expansion, the Czecho-Slovak Republic.

soviet-hmm