“AES” meaning “actually existing socialism.” The debate over this word goes all the way back to Engels at least.
Someone else may help me find a link, because I remember reading a different article about this specifically, but these three definitely touch on it:
https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-totalitarianism/ (this one is about “totalitarianism” and the “horseshoe” theory I referenced above)
What they are saying is that “Authoritarian” is not a precise term that distinguishes anything and was just made up as a way to try to accuse AES states of being just as bad as fascist ones. It’s a horseshoe theory term because any actually accurate term you would use to describe Hitler’s or Mussolini’s ideology would exclude the ideology of socialist states.
Now now, maybe the other papers published by the bluesky account are just that terrible
Two young Jews
What a weird thing to call a Christian and his (maybe Jewish) fiancé
If all broken clocks were right 3 times a day, think about how much better the world might be.
Bag full of air that does not float
Not if you look at the long history of people who flew the Gadsden flag.
Don’t encourage him
It’s what happens when all the gravitons and graviolis get mixed up
Where can I find a set of these massive blinders you wear?
The only one out here spreading blood libel is you. Which makes sense since you are a rabid antisemite.
They can live there in peace like the Jews did in Palestine for thousands of years before Zionism took the place over. And just like then, they would’ve to accept that their non-Jewish neighbors are human beings with equal rights to them. What happened to the Southern African whites when Apartheid collapsed in SA? You are not even good at masking your bad faith.
how and why was Hezbollah founded?
Actually, the doctor who invented washing hands was ridiculed and ostracized.