Prussian Socialism: Individualism, the state and the DDR

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RedHand
CC have you noticed in Australia that a lot of major companies (especially banks) are promoting the urban homosexual lifestyle, effeminacy etc. It's something I've really noticed on social media and TV especially. It's a big motive for my retreat from media. Big business trying to promote the gay life:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/mBZ9gYqPCsU

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/-4clkl959yU
Content Creator
It is an entirely cynical angle, trying to get people already identify with the hilariously incompetent homo movement in this country to identify with the business. That being said the advertisers almost certainly sympathise too. Remember advertisers today don't look like this
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They look like this

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So they're happy to push the poz if they'll get a paycheck out of it. Then again I doubt it was ever any different honestly. Identifying with a political cause has just become another segment of a consumer identity to profile.
Content Creator

To get the thread back on topic. The lyrics to this song are quite interesting. Just put captions on and the English translation comes up. It mentions NATO and American sanctions and threats, faux humanitarian concerns against the DDR and war for profit. Other than being extremely motivating musically the lyrics are interesting to me because they're still relevant today. When Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was a "geopolitical disaster" I understand that better now in light of the last 20 years. NATO and friends have had a free hand all over the world and the result is a dumpster MENA region. The USSR was a counterbalance.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/tAxadstFhzo

Dogmatic Tower
They were both archetypal totalitarian societies: dictatorship, leader worship, the machinery of state either unaccountable or a smokescreen to disguise the real nature of power, censorship and propaganda, the dread specter of secret police, endless public rituals of hysteria and obedience, treating private life as subversive in some way, and so on like that. All anathema to English liberties, republican government, and Enlightenment values that the liberal order is or at least fancies itself as being built upon. Meanwhile, Burkean conservatives saw both Marxism-Leninism and fascism as heirs to the spirit of the French Revolution: their actual politics was incidental to the systematic destruction of organic society in favor of a new order of ideology and institutionalized violence.
Welund
RedHand

Reading Spengler's letters he had some very disparaging things to say about Germany's Jewish population. Then again he was part Jewish himself and was friends with Walter Rathenau. One of his primary objections to Marx wasn't the political-philosophers Jewish blood but his English worldview.