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Anarchonomicon's essay on the internal dynamics of "Wokeness" and the "professional-managerial" class basically follows "Revolt of the Elites", but is far more readable and succinct.

Its also notable the way it draws parallels between past and present.

I had a real chill of "Cosmic Horror" reading the appendix and realising that, however wrong he was overall, the "most wicked man in history" understood many particulars of class and identity politics with rather greater keenness than myself; keener than all but the very best of our contemporary political observers.

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techfeudalist 1y ago

I found both extremely thought provoking but still really haven’t figured out what to make of it yet.

When I study historical events, I try to learn why decisions were made to better predict how people may respond to similar future events.

One thing I had never realized before but the “national socialist” party that the Nazi’s called themselves was anti-communist. I had assumed the nazi’s were socialist.

The other aspect that I never knew was the connection in hitler’s mind between Jews and communism. And it wasn’t just Hitler who harbored that belief. Churchill seemed to too!

I did a few searches and also learned that this is a “conspiracy theory”. I don’t know yet whether it is true or not, but it does seem that leaders on both sides of the battle seemed to believe it.

Did Germany in WWII believe it was fighting an anti-woke, anti-communist crusade??

I get now why people on the left compare Trump to Hitler. Nationalist, anti-woke, authoritarian.

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