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To: C19fan
Besides the fights between left and right there is the fight between ideologues such as Corbusier and the commonsensical folks who realized a long time ago that you can't fit every human endeavor into a single ideological framework.

Whether Corbusier was a left totalitarian or right totalitarian is less important than that he was an ideologue.

I hate it when people try to associate all the horrible people with the political side they disagree with.

Conservatives try to disassociate themselves from Hitler by shouting NAZI = National Socialist, but Hitler's economic policies were the least of his horrible crimes.

Totalitarians are totalitarians. They put on rightwing or leftwing clothing as it suits their purposes. Putin is putting on rightwing clothing right now, where as his forefathers (Stalin, Lenin, etc.) put on leftwing clothing.

7 posted on 10/02/2015 8:11:54 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Let’s not forget that Fascism was once praised as modernistic and progressive. FDR called it “ admirable.”

In 1934, the progressive writer Roger Shaw described the New Deal as “Fascist means to gain liberal ends.”

Individualism, free markets, and decentralized power were to be replaced by order, discipline, and planning.

As early as 1912, FDR himself praised the Prussian-German model: “They passed beyond the liberty of the individual to do as he pleased with his own property and found it necessary to check this liberty for the benefit of the freedom of the whole people,”

Arbeit macht Frei.

comments taken from https://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt


9 posted on 10/02/2015 8:25:14 AM PDT by Auslander154
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

It’s telling that Corbu was Right-wing first, but switched to Left-wing when that was all the rage. The point is Corbu was for strong central power that managed and planned every aspect of everyone’s life.


10 posted on 10/02/2015 8:30:25 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Conservatives try to disassociate themselves from Hitler by shouting NAZI = National Socialist, but Hitler's economic policies were the least of his horrible crimes.

Huh? An American conservative espouses freedom of the individual. Hitler had no such view. As a fascist, he had a lot in common with modern American Democrats-gun control, fascist public schools, control of the means of production, and so on. Give us a break with Hitler being a conservative.

14 posted on 10/02/2015 6:30:08 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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