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This guy seems to have a really idealized notion of Socialism. Anyone have any idea who he is?
Kangas need to place the meth pipe on the table and back away. Playing to the “heads full of mush” he is.
He was a lefty though. They goofed in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when showed him signing that book with his right hand!
“True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship — it can only be democratic.” Rubbish. Socialism is ALWAYS coercive. Marxists and Fascists are identical: they are all statists.
Socialism does not require worker ownership.
Socialism has the state owning the means.
Full-blown communism has the workers owning everything.
Socialisk is the transition stage from capitalism to communism and the communit state is set up as god guide to progress people from socialism to pure communism (which will never happen).
Guy is nuts right here. Knows not what he speaks of.
Liberals just don’t like to look in the mirror.
“I ran across this fantasy writing and had to share it with you Freepers”
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I can post a photo of a turd but why would I?
Nice try.
Fail to the Nth power (where N is very large).
But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production.
Workers didn’t own squat in The Soviet Union.
Goebbels would have disagreed. He called the NSDAP the “German Left”.
This is false- socialism does not require both ownership and control of the means of production- that would be communism.
Socialism I that stage before communism when the government takes varying degrees of control over business but does not bear the burden or risks of owning it.
Hitler was clearly in the middle of the left. The left consisted of National socialists and International socialists.
At the end of WWII, the National Socialists had lost and the International Socialists had won.
The mass killings exposed in the Holocaust were exposed and put the National Socialists into disfavor.
The mass killings done by the International Socialists were kept hidden in Russia behind the Iron Curtain.
The idea that Hitler was on the right was concocted by the International Socialists after the war to provide a false choice between National Socialism and International Socialism.
Notice they did not leave any choice for limited government.
FIFY
Well, Hitler was a nationalist, which would position him on the right. On the other hand, his effort was initially a worker uprising.
But on socialism, government ownership is not worker ownership. Government ownership is political class ownership, where some of the wealthier constituents control what the government owns, control the system of socialism and put their children through a fine arts education charade into the more influential, high income government positions.
The problem is that “Leftism” is poorly defined, and for many decades “the Right” was defined as “anybody who opposes International Communism”.
It’s more precise to say that Nazism and Soviet Communism are both examples of Statism, defined as “concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry”.
The main difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, was that individuals technically retained ownership in Germany. In reality, the “owners” did as they were told by the State planners.
You’ve gotta love how leftists everywhere claim that other leftists... those who managed to destroy their own countries and killed tens of millions of their own people... were not really leftists because of inconsequential nonsense. These Antifa thugs all the way up to the Chuck and Nancy show, all have a lot in common with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
Hitler didn't give a shiite about the workers (or anyone else for that matter). He wanted the control he needed to make Germany into a mythic power consistent with its Legends.
And BTW, Left and Right mean different things in different places and over time.
Did Hitler want a republic in which power was held by the public and exercised by elected representatives? Er, no.
Did Hitler want a workers paradise? Again, no.
Did Hitler want a Germany (and, for that matter, a world) molded in his own image and conformed by Germanic/Teutonic mythology and paganism?
Ding, ding, ding.
All modern leftists are the ideological heirs of Hitler and his ovens.
Here’s a succinct refutation of the notion that the Nazis weren’t socialists.
https://mises.org/library/myth-nazi-capitalism