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To: Zionist Conspirator
It makes absolutely no sense to insist "Nazism was left wing" when it dovetails so nicely with right wing conspiracy theory.

If one takes the view that the authentic right-wing in the West is orthodox Christianity, then Nazism is decidedly left-wing.

Its insistence on the primacy of the secular state over the Church, its hyperdarwinist placement of supposed genetic purity over religious devotion as the mark of human worth, its materialist doctrine of history, its Marcionist stance toward Jews and Judaism - it's a twentieth century melange of ideas concocted in the nineteenth century by decidedly anticlerical thinkers.

The most successful advocate of Nazism in America besides Margaret Sanger (a left-wing icon) was William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries.

Have you read that book? It's a fictional work about how the protagonist starts a "resistance movement" that ends with genocide of all non-Aryans in America. At the end of the book, with the enemies of the white race all eliminated, the new Aryan government puts all its loyal Aryan citizens to work on collective farms and enters them into breeding programs to produce even more superior specimens.

In China, they call that Maoism.

Actually, I'm surprised you've never noticed the direct link between the father of liberal higher criticism - Adolf von Harnack - and the Marcionism of the Reichskirche.

43 posted on 02/14/2010 8:06:51 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
I am aware of the secular origin of much anti-Semitic and racialist thought. I simply reject the JBS' concept of the political spectrum that runs from totalitarianism on one side to anarchism on the other. First, Left and Right each has a conglomeration of anarchists and totalitarians who get along with each other, but not with their fellows on the opposite side of the spectrum. Secondly, much right wing conspiracy theory dovetails with racialism and anti-Semitism. The Birch Society may scream all it wants that Nazism is on the Left, but if this is so, why do Nazis sell Birch Society books?

The true defining line between Left and Right is very hard to figure out, since many on both extremes sound very similar even as they hate each other. I have theorized in the past that the line is universalism vs. henotheism, or equality vs. hierarchy, or atomistic vs. "organic" collectivism, or horizontal vs. vertical collectivism. I've long since given up.

Please don't be offended by my position. I used to belong to the Birch Society, and I find much of their message to be hogwash.

44 posted on 02/14/2010 8:41:07 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Venatatta 'el-ha'aron 'et ha`edut 'asher 'etten 'eleykha.)
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To: wideawake
A friend of mine was assigned The Turner Diaries in a post graduate course English course. The Prof. probably took a perverse delight in outraging his students sensibilities but my friend sure was upset about having to buy a copy and give Pierce and/or his title holders royalties.
45 posted on 02/15/2010 6:27:07 AM PST by Borges
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To: wideawake

I’ve always thought that the Father of Higher Criticism was Spinoza.


46 posted on 02/15/2010 6:28:06 AM PST by Borges
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