This is reminding me of Parenti - to put his conclusions in my own words, Fascism is when the revolutionary rhetoric developed by the Left-Wing (whether that is Socialists or Communists or Left-Liberals) is used to advance the goals of the ruling classes instead.

So they took the most cartoonish lib propaganda version of Lenin and said “That was actually good, it just needed to be right wing.”

I'm getting psychic damage from reading this.

Substack was a mistake

I think I remember reading a few british boug with the same take 10 years ago, not really a new thing. If I recall correctly the Ukrainian fascists were reading Lenin too.

Vanguard theory, party hierarchy and a basic understanding of full time revolutionaries are all extremely valuable no matter what political ideology you come from as they can all be applied to anything.

It's also painfully obvious that colour revolutions are inspired by vanguard theory. Honestly to turn this on its head I've thought for a while now that the model the US has for colour revolution ought to be deconstructed and considered as a model that can be used by anyone. It's the closest thing to a working model for revolution in developed countries. Just because the CIA came up with it doesn't mean it wouldn't work for us.

We, at the Court’s Sense, do not condone nor recommend requisitioning grain at gunpoint, shooting one’s political opponents in the back of the head, or giving them a tenner in Solovki, neither are we communists for that matter.