People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

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  • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    In 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual; a document aimed at the unhappy citizens of fascist nations, to instruct them on how to sabotage the economic and military capacity of their own nation. I’m not saying that Oskar Schindler ever read it, but the movie line “Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I’ll be very unhappy” is definitely in the same spirit.

    One need not work in weapons manufacturing, either. The manual suggests sabotage techniques for every kind of worker. For example, office workers could help decrease their fascist nation’s economic power by insisting that every decision be made by committee, slowing output.

    The manual is fascinating in that it’s focused on people who are afraid to be “heroes”, instead suggesting sabotage methods that entail little to no personal risk.

    https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n2/mode/1up

      • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        Yes. Large-scale sabotage is, well, large-scale. And it tends to be investigated until the saboteur is found. Whereas a widespread movement of many small individual acts of sabotage can often be harder to detect as having been sabotage at all. For example, clogging a coolant system with adulterants that are plausible to have found their way in through laxity in operation, so that when the machine it cools goes kaput, a post-mortem makes it look like the work of wear-and-tear, operator error and insufficient maintenance. Such a saboteur can go undiscovered and live to sabotage another day.

        And the same principle applies to non-mechanical sabotage. As mentioned with “every decision by committee”, it can often be done entirely in the open and still be undetectable as sabotage.