Margaret Killjoy
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When I first started dreaming up this show years ago, it was kind of in a different context. And I wanted to talk about anarchist history. And I was like, you know, they literally invented international policing to stop us. Why are all of our books boring? Has been my, like, go-to tagline. Because they did. International policing exists because of trying to stop the anarchist movement. Because...
Nothing gets people to work together. Like, when people go around and kill, like, poor people, everyone's like, oh, that sucks. Whatever. When people go around and kill kings, kings work together to make sure that that stops.
Nothing gets people to work together. Like, when people go around and kill, like, poor people, everyone's like, oh, that sucks. Whatever. When people go around and kill kings, kings work together to make sure that that stops.
Nothing gets people to work together. Like, when people go around and kill, like, poor people, everyone's like, oh, that sucks. Whatever. When people go around and kill kings, kings work together to make sure that that stops.
When someone comes for them as a class, they band together. Yeah. One person who defended Gaetano Bresci doing a little king murder was a man by the name of Benito Mussolini. His fellow socialists were claiming Bresci was crazy for having killed the king, right? Mussolini said that tyrannicide was, quote, the occupational hazard of being a king. Which, I don't know.
When someone comes for them as a class, they band together. Yeah. One person who defended Gaetano Bresci doing a little king murder was a man by the name of Benito Mussolini. His fellow socialists were claiming Bresci was crazy for having killed the king, right? Mussolini said that tyrannicide was, quote, the occupational hazard of being a king. Which, I don't know.
When someone comes for them as a class, they band together. Yeah. One person who defended Gaetano Bresci doing a little king murder was a man by the name of Benito Mussolini. His fellow socialists were claiming Bresci was crazy for having killed the king, right? Mussolini said that tyrannicide was, quote, the occupational hazard of being a king. Which, I don't know.
But what isn't a pre-existing, no, but what else we're obliged to do is play ads for you now. Yeah. Like these ones. And we're back. Now, this might shock you, Robert.
But what isn't a pre-existing, no, but what else we're obliged to do is play ads for you now. Yeah. Like these ones. And we're back. Now, this might shock you, Robert.
But what isn't a pre-existing, no, but what else we're obliged to do is play ads for you now. Yeah. Like these ones. And we're back. Now, this might shock you, Robert.
Well, I was reading a whole bunch on that website X about how actually the fascists are socialists and leftists.
Well, I was reading a whole bunch on that website X about how actually the fascists are socialists and leftists.
Well, I was reading a whole bunch on that website X about how actually the fascists are socialists and leftists.
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My X feed is certainly playing looping videos of something right now. And... So... Mussolini was kicked out of the Socialist Party because he supported interventionism. He supported Italy fighting in World War I. And along the way, he started developing his theories on fascism, which was basically, what if you took revolutionary socialism and then replaced it with revolutionary nationalism?
My X feed is certainly playing looping videos of something right now. And... So... Mussolini was kicked out of the Socialist Party because he supported interventionism. He supported Italy fighting in World War I. And along the way, he started developing his theories on fascism, which was basically, what if you took revolutionary socialism and then replaced it with revolutionary nationalism?
My X feed is certainly playing looping videos of something right now. And... So... Mussolini was kicked out of the Socialist Party because he supported interventionism. He supported Italy fighting in World War I. And along the way, he started developing his theories on fascism, which was basically, what if you took revolutionary socialism and then replaced it with revolutionary nationalism?
Instead of class solidarity, you had national solidarity. What if you made all of the poor people suck up to the rich people and then defend the nation as a concept? the leftist trappings, and some of the leftist strategies, but with right-wing goals. Because at the time, right-wing was just like the status quo, right? If you defend like the monarchy or whatever, you're right-wing.