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Posted on 04/27/2017 8:05:15 PM PDT by vannrox
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You = genius
Sickening. This should be ON EVERY NEWS SHOW and won’t be on any.
Well and truly stated. Sadly, the vast majority of young people today have been dumbed so far down that your cogent comment is beyond their reasoning potential.
In “Mein Kampf” Hitler describes using the red on their banners to co-opt the communists; they were fighting for the loyalty of the same workers.
All over Europe this happened; Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany/Austria - all in response to communist revolutions (threatened or active) in their countries. Happened in eastern Europe as well, and they were on the devil’s doorstep (the border of the USSR).
The Communists and Socialists in Germany in 1933 both correctly identified each other as fascists. Here is a translation from a German source.
In 1933, NAZIs were squarely in the middle of leftist political thought. Leftist groups have traditionally fought each other for power. In Germany the NAZIs turned out to be the most effective leftists.
“A united counter-defense of all workers could have defeated the Nazis. We must not forget that during the last elections in 1933 the SPD and the KPD got even more votes together than Hitler.
But there were no common antifascist actions. The SPD called the KPD “red painted Fascists” or “Kozis”. The KPD called the SPD “Social Fascists”. And for both sides it was clear: one can not fight with Fascist inside against other fascists.
How did they want to fight the Nazis? The SPD assumed that the state, the Weimar Constitution and the police would protect them. The KPD, on the other hand, fought actively against the SA gangs, but on the assumption that they could cope with the Nazis as a radical minority alone.”
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/woher-kommt-die-antifa/
>>Additionally, both Russia and China have become more Fascist than Communist.
This would come as no surprise whatsoever to Drucker and Hayek, who nailed it in the early-middle of the previous century:
Although our modern socialists’ promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under “communism” and “fascism.” As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, “the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.”
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
What Hayek calls a “liberal of the old type” we of course would today call a conservative, someone who really believes in individual freedom.
See my previous from Hayek. He understood that.
The inclusion of the black banner adds an Anarchist component to the red Communist logo.
Good post, thank you.
Bookmarked
Interesting, though hardly surprising.
It’s not a coincidence and they did not merely “copy” the German Communists’ 1933 logo. Their political histories have legacy relationships. If we speak of it as if like families, the U.S. “anifa” movement is a grandchild of American cousins of the German movement of 1933.
Heh.
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