“Kill a commie for mommy!” One of our old slogans in 80s era US Military
Friedrich A. Hayek wrote in “The Road to Serfdom” that fascism and communism were really two sides of the same coin.
What did the Furor himself say? :
We are Socialists, we are enemies of today’s
capitalistic economic system for the exploitation
of the economically weak, with it’s unfair salaries,
with it’s unseemly evaluation of a human being
according to wealth and property instead of
responsibility and performance, and we are all
determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
Adolf Hitler
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Calling socialism the bland version of communism is spot on.
I’ve long said that given their common roots the socialist are the moderates of the left. On one side of them are the communist and on the other side of them are the fascist.
The fascist, divorced from the racist neo-pagan Nazi crap, commit the unpardonable sin to the rest of the left in not seeking to redistribute wealth but instead represent an alliance of big business and big government to their mutual advantage. It is an arrangement that is absolutely dedicated to entities owning the lion’s share of all means of production and distribution, achieving the aims that the left claims it wants through full employment.
Fascism (again, not neo-pagan Nazism) is, I’ve argued, where Europe was heading had WW1 not happened, with enlightened monarchs and elites seeking to further stabilize their societies by eliminating (most) poverty through employment, achieved through development of their economies. It would have been an imperial fascism of the court, bank and exchange rather than a thug state ... but it would have still been corporatism.
Socialism is worse than that form of fascism because it removes entities from private ownership. This is even true of what George advocated, though he wanted everything to be owned by local communities.
There is NOTHING to prevent socialists from being thugs, and it is a self approving delusion that socialist have that they won’t be. Being thugs or not is a matter of style, of execution of socialism ... just as being weak feminized men or actual whoopsies and has turned out to be a style of executing socialism.
Communism is worse still, delusional and even opposed to human nature.
No where in this left to right spectrum OF THE LEFT will you find The likes of Adam Smith or an economy that truly values actual persons owning and operating the means of production and distribution.
“Friedrich A. Hayek wrote in “The Road to Serfdom” that fascism and communism were really two sides of the same coin.”
Exactly; two totalitarian systems with only minor distinctions. If anything, fascism in practice seems to have been somewhat less tyrannical than communism.
Wear it, “Antifa”.
And:
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn.
Communism, Fascism and Socialism all have one common core. A large central government with vast amounts of control over the economy. Basically big states. The US was founded on a small limited government ideal that has unfortunately lost its roots.