Posted on 09/14/2020 8:42:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Left-wing extremists are emulating the Brownshirts of 1930s Germany. This means specifically (1) identification of convenient martyrs to the Cause like Horst Wessel and (2) exploitation of the purported martyrdoms to incite mindless violence including murder, pillage, arson, and riot along with desecration of places of worship.
Wessel was an up-and-coming leader of the Brownshirts when he was murdered by Germany's counterpart of Antifa, the Communist KPD and Red Front Fighters' League, whose slogan was "Strike the fascists wherever you find them." The communists' opposition to fascism, while obviously laudable, did not however make the communists good people, either. Two violent gangs of evildoers fought each other, and the Nazis unfortunately came out on top. I say "unfortunately" because, while communists have proven themselves equally willing to commit mass murder as shown by Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot, the Nazis were more competent at it. While Hitler used Germany's professional officer corps to his advantage, Stalin purged and decimated his to leave Russia relatively defenseless against Operation Barbarossa.
The Wikipedia entry adds, "The death of Wessel and the proliferation of the Horst-Wessel Lied [Horst Wessel Song] was the beginning of the Nazi cult of martyrs." Joseph Goebbels wanted to turn Wessel's funeral into a mass demonstration the same way the "woke" left held a bigger funeral for George Floyd than the one Martin Luther King received.
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I don’t see the upside of one gang winning out over another because at the end of the day, neither group has a workable plan. They are both sh*tty. Wouldn’t it be easier to just say they are both sh*tty instead of getting all convoluted?
In Weimar Germany, IMO, the difference between the Nazis/Fascists and the Communists were pretty slight. The Communists wanted to take orders from Moscow. The Nazis were Nationalists. Beyond that, they were all Collectivists who were willing to do anything to grab power.
In America today, we have ANTIFA, BLM and they are basically Globalist Communists (Trotskyites, in my view). But they are not significantly different from Fascists. Horst Wessel would join them in a heartbeat.
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East.
In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,
....relevant info...! from Wikipedia...
“Antifaschistische Aktion, commonly known under its abbreviation Antifa, was a militant anti-fascist organisation in the Weimar Republic started by members of the Communist Party of Germany that existed from 1932 to 1933.”
Compare this outfit’s logo with the logo of today’s Antifa.... Somewhere in the nether reaches of Hades, Herr Wessel must be wondering “Was is’ los?”
To me - it always seemed that Liberals like creating Draconian situations. Then THEY can intervene to force THEIR policies into the equation and APPEAR as saviors for US.
It’s a sadly childish way of doing things... Predictable and lame, but then we ARE talking about Liberals!
I don’t see the upside of one gang winning out over another because at the end of the day, neither group has a workable plan. They are both sh*tty. Wouldn’t it be easier to just say they are both sh*tty instead of getting all convoluted?
An odd premise/analogy — there is no “fascist” front in America
The Left has taken arms against an otherwise docile country with a robust economy.
Bookmarked for later read
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