Posted on 10/20/2015 11:19:38 AM PDT by Torcert
The SA were run by Communists, who wanted complete government control of the economy. Hitler, knowing he needed the industrialists on his side to build his war machine, purged them to alleviate their fears.
The following came out 14 years before the socialists were purged. You can pick and choose whatever you want, but Hitler mainly went with fascism as an economic model after 1934. Hitler saw the success of fascism in Italy, plus big industry and the professional military wanted the socialists crushed.
The Party Program of the NSDAP was proclaimed on the 24 February 1920 by Adolf Hitler at the first large Party gathering in Munich and since that day has remained unaltered. Within the national socialist philosophy is summarized in 25 points:
1. We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.
4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.
5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.
6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, office-holding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.
7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all Consequently we demand:
11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, Schieber and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
19. We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.
20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school [Staatsbuergerkunde] as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.
21. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that: a. All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race: b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the State to be published. They may not be printed in the German language: c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications, or any influence on them, and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life, and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.
24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: common utility precedes individual utility.
25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unlimited authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The forming of state and profession chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation. The leaders of the Party promise, if necessary by sacrificing their own lives, to support by the execution of the points set forth above without consideration.
bkmk
The uniting idea of the left is collectivism. Of the right, personal freedom.
European uses of these terms are irrelevant, because Europeans have no historical model of personal freedom.
Can this stay as is? Every damn time something like this is stated, it is always backtracked or ‘that’s not me’ or ‘taken out of context’. Please Chuck, do not apologize!
Definitely not. He’s a very nice, intelligent guy, but when he gets a wrong idea in his head (and not just politics), I dare you to convince him otherwise. Just about can’t be done.
He was a plankowner of the nuclear USS Enterprise while serving in the navy.
Thank you so very much for sharing this brilliant quote. this is perfect for discussion the “sides” of politics with kids (teen and up) and even with people who are “on the left” because they think it is the more free side. The current word “liberal” actually refers to more government control than the word “conservative,” and someone should start talking about it while the public is watching, perhaps at a debate.
Sibling Rivalry. To give you a measure of how closely associated the Nazis were to the Communists, I will inform you that in Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's book "Leftism Revisited", he reveals that the original Nazi flags were made from Communist hammer and Sickle Flags, with the Swastika on the White Background which was sewn over the hammer and sickle.
According to von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the original German Socialist groups were all the same bunch of people. The German Communists WERE the Nazis.
Don't take my word for it. Read his book. He explains where every splinter socialist/communist group in Europe came from, what it's roots were, who were the famous members in it, and what it evolved into.
The Nazis came straight out of the Communist camp.
And if you think von Kuehnelt-Leddihn is a crank, I will point out that the preface in the book was written by William F. Buckley, and he could not say enough about von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's knowledge and experience.
Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn builds a very conclusive case that the Nazis WERE the Communists. The Nazis were just a splinter group off of the main body.
I’ve now come across Leftist who are trying the same lie with other failed Socialist states like the USSR.
Beyond the tired old ‘North Korea’ talking point they have virtually nothing to bolster this assertion.
At which point they will degenerate into childish invective or lines like ‘I don’t have time to do your research for you’.
Bookmark
Exactly:
“In certain basic respects - a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom - fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard New York Times Magazine
A family feud, nothing more.
Thank you for posting those.
I’ve seen that comparisons made in video like ‘the soviet story’:
The Soviet Story 2/9 legendado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=blsu-12CAfY
Like Bloods are anti-Crips, although the only difference between them is the uniform.
Yes.
Hitler asked Mr. Porsche to build a nice little
car for the working masses..
folkswagon...
the owners and politicians got a little
larger Mercedes-Benz....( ; )
Definition of conservative
2 (in a political context) favouring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas.
Informal true blue
Origin
late Middle English (in the sense ‘aiming to preserve’): from late Latin conservativus, from conservat- ‘conserved’, from the verb conservare (see conserve). Current senses date from the mid 19th century.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/conservative?
Definition of CONSERVATISM
1capitalized
a : the principles and policies of a Conservative party
b : the Conservative party
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established
b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change; specifically : such a philosophy calling for lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing, a strong national defense, and individual financial responsibility for personal needs (as retirement income or health-care coverage)
3: the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conservatism
To disprove one of the left’s biggest lies.
Because one cannot seriously argue that the Nazis were in favour of ‘lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing’.
Hitler’s “Night of the Long Knives” was Stalin’s inspiration for the Purges, although Stalin would probably have done the same anyway. But at any rate, after the “Night of the Long Knives” Stalin complimented Hitler on his ruthlessness to his cronies.
And then the next thing Kamenev and Zinoviev knew, they were being tortured in the basement of the Lubyanka.
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