re: #299 Salamantis

“…race vs. class. It’s that simple.”

If purifying race is at one end of a spectrum, and eliminating class distinction is at the opposite end, then what is in the middle? Are “moderates” tepidly-but-equally committed to killing some blacks, but also eating some rich?

And why was Mussolini’s fascist Italy not concerned with race? Nor was fascist Spain, nor fascist Peru? Why is the American left wing *at least, if not more* racist than the American right? Why was communist Russia EXTREMELY racist (including up to current Russian culture?) Where do all these fit on the spectrum?

If these traits occupy the two basic alternatives of political flavor, then how do we fight racism? By instituting socialism?

If these 2 alternatives occupy opposite and mutually exclusive ends of the political spectrum, then presumably they should be relatively easy to distinguish (being opposites after all); hypothetically, I could produce quotes (paraphrased, to prevent googling) from various communists and fascists, and adherents to this spectrum could tell me which was which? (Because I sure the hell could tell you where their statement stood relative to the reasonable distinction of freedom vs. statism.)

The “spectrum”, as it is used today, exists only in the disintegrated concepts of those who attempt to use it. It’s uselessness lies in its distinction by non-essentials. There’s no difference between the Crips and the Bloods. No important difference.