On Nov 14, 9:04 am, "PJ O'D" <
zuckerl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Conservatives: Always accused of not knowing what "Socialism" is by
> Leftism? Read "Why Are We Socialists?" by Joseph Goebbels, a German
> politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933
> to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout
> followers
>
> "Why Are We Socialists?
>
> by Joseph Goebbels
>
> We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of
> all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and
> to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.
> Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It
> promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the
> political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to
> breaking the present slavery and the regaining of German freedom.
> Socialism therefore is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but
> a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is
> the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only
> through a total combat brotherhood with the forward-striving energies
> of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a
> phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is
> everything, the future, freedom, the Fatherland!
> The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism's nation-
> building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-
> national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into
> a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the
> state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts
> leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as
> nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive.
> The bourgeois is about to leave the historical stage. In its place
> will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has
> been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its
> political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for
> political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism.
> The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the
> political. It is not merely a matter of pay, not only a matter of the
> number of hours worked in a day-though we may never forget that these
> are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the
> socialist platform-but it is much more a matter of incorporating a
> powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it
> the dominant force in the future politics of the Fatherland. The
> bourgeois does not want to recognize the strength of the working
> class. Marxism has forced it into a straitjacket that will ruin it.
> While the working class gradually disintegrates in the Marxist front,
> bleeding itself dry, the bourgeois and Marxism have agreed on the
> general lines of capitalism, and see their task now to protect and
> defend it in various ways, often concealed.
> We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of
> necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our
> people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The
> worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he
> produces. We have no intention of begging for that right.
> Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter
> for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the
> eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness
> that includes every productive citizen. Since the political powers of
> the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation,
> socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly
> and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and
> Marxism at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming
> workers' state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our
> national existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist
> national state.
> Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and
> free internationally. The bourgeois and Marxism are responsible for
> failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom.
> No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves,
> they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state.
> We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German
> socialism are sharp, and our path is clear.
> We are against the political bourgeois, and for genuine nationalism!
> We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!
> We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!
> We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party!"
>
> __________________________________________________ _______
>
> Source: "Documents on International Affairs," vol. II, 1938, pp.
> 17-19.
>
> or google any segment