Posted on 03/23/2003 11:26:48 PM PST by familyop
Hopeless Alert Call from Brazil
by Olavo de Carvalho
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org
When I wrote that Brazilian people was being indoctrined into furious anti-American rage by local press, some readers said I was overstating my argument.
Now to the facts.
This poll was made last week among the readers of O Globo, one of the main Brazilian newspapers. The question was: 'Which of these three men is the more dangerous for mankind?' The answers were:
Saddam Hussein (7.31%);
Osama bin Laden (11.46%);
George Bush (81.23%).
So, I insist: (1) All Brazilian newspapers and TV channels are utterly anti-American. You can?t imagine the huge amount of pro-Saddam lies we have been reading and hearing here since the war started. (2) Even the Brazilian remaining right, specially among the military, is anti-American. (3) Brazilian government is closely associated to Colombian Farc, to Fidel Castro and to Hugo Chávez. Its seemingly moderate behaviour in economy matters is no more than a diversionist tactics adopted in order to gain time while the creation of a revolutionary police state is being carefully prepared. (4) Your Ambassador here does absolutely nothing to fight anti-American lies and she even gave the leftwing candidate Lula a generous helping hand in 2002 elections, saying to the press he was 'the incarnation of the American dream?' (so was also the poor indian boy Hugo Chávez, I presume). (5) It's really dangerous, both professionally and physically, to be pro-American in Brazil.
If American conservatives don't take consciousness of the present state of things in Brazil, some sort of Latin-American Saddam Hussein will rise against them very soon.
LOL That's is EXACTLY what your trying to do.
Ah, so proper spelling is a fleeting thing, eh? What a difference a post makes.
A fascist economy is controlled by the state. The economy is nationalized and ultimately private property can be taken by the state at any time. This is not Free Enterprise. "Capitalism" is a communist term anyway.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
"Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State, which is the conscience and universal will of man in his historical existence...for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value,-outside the State." - Benito Mussolini - 1932.
The Mystery of Fascism - David Ramsay Steele - "Leftists often imagine that Fascists were afraid of a revolutionary working-class. Nothing could be more comically mistaken. Most of the early Fascist leaders had spent years trying to get the workers to become revolutionary. As late as June 1914, Mussolini took part enthusiastically, at risk of his own life and limb, in the violent and confrontational "red week." The initiators of Fascism were mostly seasoned anti-capitalist militants who had time and again given the working class the benefit of the doubt."
The Socialist Calumny Against the Jews
The Marxians are not prepared to admit that the Nazis are socialists too. In their eyes Nazism is the worst of all evils of capitalism. On the other hand, the Nazis describe the Russian system as the meanest of all types of capitalist exploitation and as a devilish machination of World Jewry for the domination of the gentiles. Yet it is clear that both systems, the German and the Russian, must be considered from an economic point of view as socialist. And it is only the economic point of view that matters in debating whether or not a party or system is socialist. Socialism is and has always been considered a system of economic organization of society. It is the system under which the government has full control of production and distribution. As far as socialism existing merely within individual countries can be called genuine, both Russia and Germany are right in calling their systems socialist....The Nazis do not reject Marxism because it aims at socialism but because, as they say, it advocates internationalism. ...What the Nazis really have in mind when indicting the Jewish mind for internationalism is the liberal theory of free trade and the mutual advantages of international division of labor. The Jews, they say, want to corrupt the innate Aryan spirit of heroism by the fallacious doctrines of the advantages of peace. ...Finally, the Nazis call the business mentality Jewish. Tacitus informs us that the German tribes of his day considered it clumsy and shameful to acquire with sweat what could be won by bloodshed.
The Socialist Roots of Nazism - Friedrich A. Hayek
The doctrines which had guided the ruling elements in Germany for the past generation were opposed not to the socialism in Marxism but to the liberal elements contained in it, its internationalism and its democracy. And as it became increasingly clear that it was just these elements which formed obstacles to the realization of socialism, the socialists of the Left approached more and more to those of the Right. It was the union of the anticapitalist forces of the Right and of the Left, the fusion of radical and conservative socialism, which drove out from Germany everything that was liberal.The connection between socialism and nationalism in Germany was close from the beginning. It is significant that the most important ancestors of National Socialism-Fichte, Robertus, and Lassalle-are at the same time acknowledged fathers of socialism. ...The "German idea of the state," as formulated by Fichte, Lassalle, and Rodbertis, is that the state is neither founded nor formed by individuals, nor an aggregate of individuals, nor is its purpose to serve any interest of individuals. It is a Volksgemeinschaft in which the individual has no rights but only duties. Claims of the individual are always an outcome of the commercial spirit.
by Joseph Goebbels
Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and the regaining of German freedom. Socialism therefore is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total combat brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the Fatherland!
The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism's nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive.
The bourgeois is about to leave the historical stage. In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism. The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the political. It is not merely a matter of pay, not only a matter of the number of hours worked in a day-though we may never forget that these are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the socialist platform-but it is much more a matter of incorporating a powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it the dominant force in the future politics of the Fatherland. The bourgeois does not want to recognize the strength of the working class. Marxism has forced it into a straitjacket that will ruin it. While the working class gradually disintegrates in the Marxist front, bleeding itself dry, the bourgeois and Marxism have agreed on the general lines of capitalism, and see their task now to protect and defend it in various ways, often concealed.
We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive citizen. Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and Marxism at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming workers' state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our national existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist national state.
Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeois and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state.
We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear.
We are against the political bourgeois, and for genuine nationalism!
We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!
We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!
We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party!
Date, time, citation, context. Especially, context.
Blaming "the right", capitalists, conservatives, and the Catholic Church for Nazism is a leftist mindset. The Nazis hated all these groups and worked to destroy them all.
Real conservative Germans loathed Hitler and many of them were executed in the July plot. They plotted to kill Hitler not because they sympathized with Germany's enemies, but because they wanted to win World War II.
Than where was the right? Where were the defenders of religion, the family and property?
Are you saying this is what the nazis stood for?
The Nazis were gangs of homosexuals who set up nationalized whorehouses for SS men to breed the Master Race.
Is that what you think conservative family values stand for?
You might want to do a little reading on that matter, clear up a misconception common to youth.
Nazis and socialists are divided only by their rhetoric, on the ground the terms mean virtually the same thing.
One of the most interesting things that is happening in Latin America is that all these loser leftist clowns are ganging up on Chile. Argentina and Bolivia, two EXTREME losers, have banded together and basically torn up agreements to supply natural gas to Chile. The *real* reason for this is that Chile is so damn successful, it puts real political pressure on the Argentine and Bolivian leaders to get their act together, something they are unable to do. SO, they want to pull Chile down a peg so THEY won't look quite as incompentent as they do following their stupid socialist economic schemes.
Problem is it won't work. The greedy international corporations who picked Argentina back in the 1990's to invest their money (with a potentially huge population) instead of Chile (which a population well less than half of Argentina), all lost their shirts. The ones who stayed in Chile are doing *very* well.
SO, even with its energy problems caused by their socialist neighbors, the smart foreign investments are continuing to flow into Chile and will keep doing so. At some point, the Argies, Bolivians and Brazilian people will *finally* realize what is going on and then the left's resurgence in Latin America will reverse, probably in a dramatic manner.
Fortunately, there is a large middle class in Argentina and Brazil that may be able to do this, if they can avoid the resurgence of another Chavez type. The Venezuelan middle class has fallen into a pit, and I think they aren't going to be able to escape from it. Thank you jimmuh carter for convincing the Venezuelan middle class to wait for the "referendum" to oust Chavez rather than take to the streets about 18 months ago...
However they were unwilling to grant the masses what they needed since they were not proposing an overthrow of the capitalist class, the church or any of the wealthy.
Is this what they needed? In whose opinion?
You say that the working masses were manipulated into supporting fascism but you offer no such excuse for the Catholics. The truth is that, as in Nazi Germany, the church under fascism had to be careful about what it said in order to continue to survive.
By the way, blaming Christianity for European anti-jew pogroms is also a leftist mindset, as well as a blood libel against all Christians.
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