On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:05:44 +0000 (UTC), Joe Cooper
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coop...@gop.net> wrote:
>Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism
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>European fascism drew on existing anti-modernist conservatism,
European fascism is Socialism. Nothing less, nothing more. Just a
different color.
You are aware that the Nazi leadership defined themselves as
Socialists, right?
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Think that was just symantics?
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Yes, the Nazis were socialists
"The thinking worker comes to Hitler"
Over and over again I find myself clarifying that fascism and Nazism
were sister movements to socialism and communism. This runs counter to
the cheap political trick where modern capitalist-loving right wing
movements are likened to Hitler and his followers. This is married to
the false belief that free market economic policies and racism are
intertwined, and therefore the Nazis must have loved capitalism
because they hated Jews so much.
This is complete nonsense.
The socialist roots of Nazism doesn't require any digging; it's right
there in the groups official title "The National Socialist German
Workers Party." Sometimes this is waved off by saying they were "right
wing socialists." As Jonah Goldberg wrote in Liberal Fascism, that
remark is justified by the warmongering nature of fascism, not by its
economic policies.
People make associations between the two by mistakenly projecting the
hawkish nature of modern American conservatives into the 1930's. They
do the same thing with the modern right wing tendencies of modern
white supremacists, but that's also a mistake.
I recently stumbled across an in-depth video on Netflix from
Philosophy Professor Stephen RC Hicks entitled "Nietzche and the
Nazis" which attempts to explain the intellectual beliefs and
philosophy of the Nazi party.
Hicks completely knocks it out of the park. He repeatedly highlights
the embrace of socialism and contempt of capitalism that swam through
the Third Reich and backs it up with specific quotations and excerpts.
There's been plenty of academic analyses that go into the collectivist
nature of Nazi Germany's policies, including Friedrich Hayek's The
Road to Serfdom, but Hicks presents something in a format that's easy
to digest by anyone.
He also drew attention to a pamphlet written by Joseph Goebbels, the
head propaganda minister. Here are some notable lines:
What does anti-Semitism have to do with socialism? I would put the
question this way: What does the Jew have to do with socialism?
Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working
instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others?
As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the
Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s
goods.
Combine that with
I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.
Only the annihilation of a system of exploitation carries with it the
core of the rebirth of our people.
It's pretty hard to see how anyone could read what the Nazis actually
wrote in their own propaganda and still insist that Nazism was some
sort of free market cult. If someone wants to write off this pamphlet
as some sort of fluke, then watch the major propaganda film Triumph of
the Will and fast forward to the scene 31 minutes in where workers
march like soldiers with shovels in the place of rifles.
It's unfortunate that the popular mindset overemphasizes racism as the
selling point of Nazism and fascism. Hicks does a great job of tapping
into that mindset and revealing how a philosophy that rejects
traditional morality was able to inspire people yearning for progress.
This brings about an uncomfortable idea about the future.
If younger generations fundamentally misunderstand the driving force
behind evil mindsets like Nazism, then they will be completely
vulnerable if it comes back again, striking not with mere hate but
with false promises of prosperity."
Facism IS Socialism. Just a different flavor. Like seagull shit.
Depends on what the bird has been eating.
So you Lefties are just different flavors of seagull shit.
This is aptly demonstrated by your attempt to troll. I restored the
original groups and removed the asshole troll attempt to send it off
to an entirely different set of groups.
Piss off, wanker.
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