Nazis Were Left-Wing Socialists

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[hellinahandcart]

Ramsey Clark (former US Attorney General under LBJ and radical leftist, member of the World Workers Party, and founder of the communist organization IAC and all of its umbrella groups) stating that "Islam may be the most important moral force in the world today".

Are you SERIOUS??

You're startin' to scare me, Hugh; I was just asking a related question on another thread(#19), and then I found your post. From now on I'll just come straight to you, m'kay?

[Hugh Akston]

Have you ever read this piece that I wrote?

September 29.

[hellinahandcart]

I did read it (excellent, BTW) and even bookmarked it, but what can I say--I read it today with a different set of eyes than the ones I had in September. Just didn't make the proper connection then.

[tberry]

"the Democraps support as their base 95% of everything the NAZI's stood for, from State schools, to gun control to persecution of religious people (Jews for NAZI's Christians for Democraps) etc"

I really don't see much difference with today's Republicrats.

Bush is going to pump even more money into state schools, for all practical purposes the "Christian Right" has no influence with the administration and it has yet to be seen, if Ashcroft's or Bush's support of the Second Amendment is anything beyond words. The Republicrats are big government, free trade, world intervention supporters that are now trying to take away more personal freedoms and Constitutional rights than the Democrats every attempted.

[sakic]

When one compares Democrats to Nazis they are being asses. It's no different than Liberals comparing right-wingers to Nazis. This argument about whether Nazis were left or right wing is mental masturbation solely designed as a smear tactic.

The Nazis were evil and neither left nor right- wing. They were fascists.

It's times like these when I'm reminded that some Americans really don't understand how good and easy their lives are. The fact that you and the fellow after you in the thread have no sense of gradation of behavior is simply pathetic to me.

[jackbob]

You hit the nail on the head. I agree with everything you said (except your claim that the original meaning of 'liberal' has been lost and your follow up use of "classical liberal").

In the past, when ever I have read one of these silly articles, with all usual ignorant comments that follow, I just let it be. But your reply has brought me out of a month long self imposed exile from FR. It really was quite good.

For the sake of a little substance, I should like to add that the ultra right wing collectivist Hitler, states quite clearly in Mein Kampf what the "socialism" in National Socialism stands for. His use of the word in the party name, has nothing to do with any government goals or policies. It "stands for the social idea of the movement." Unlike fascists (who viewed the state as an ends), nazis saw the state only as a means (servant or tool), to be used by the movement for achieving their racial collective society that celebrates the strong individual "who stands strongest alone."