Posted on 10/31/2005 9:55:26 AM PST by Richard Poe
"It's a trick. Get an axe..."
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Jackbooted brownshirts.
This might sound stupid, but if they are a communist party, what do they have against Nazis (the likes of Bush, etc...)??? I still can't figure out their crazy arguments.
Thinking that these people are NOT real Nazi's and communists that should be treated as such is part of the problem
Cubans:
soviets
Chicoms:
I coud go on and on with these.
Got the piney woods covered. When do we start ;^)
FGS
I was jsut wondering whether we should all volunteer.
Or riding motorcycles that didn't cost a fortune right off the show room floor.
Yeah, remember the role Henry Gibson played in the Blues Brothers?
(Hint: Sieg Heil!)
Herbert Marcuse, one of the leading Communist theoreticians in the United States (Susan Sontag was most of the rest), had some interesting ideas about toleration. Try looking at some of these writings on his thoughts about "toleration"/"tolerance":
Some sources for Herbert Marcuse on toleration.
It's an eyeful, and completely explains these thugs' behavior.
Keep in mind, too, that Communists and Nazis were both parties of the Left. The Communists succeeded in putting over the canard, through their Western mouthpieces, that the Nazis were a right-wing party. That was never true of any Phalangist or Fascist party. They were all socialist and statist parties of one sort or another who could not be correlated with the true Old Rightists of Edmund Burke's stripe, or American conservatives, who are Jeffersonians and classical liberals (and therefore stand in the direct line of the Patriots of the American Revolution, the Antifederalists, the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democrats, and finally the Populists, before the Socialists took them over and turned them on to their statist poison).
Yes, they really are. The German socialists fell into two camps early -- those that supported Trotskyite internationalism, and those who took a posture of German nationalism to appeal to the support of the Wehrmacht.
The latter formed the National Socialist German Workers' Party, the NSDAP.
There are some good sources online that parse out the evolution of German socialism during and after World War I, which was the cradle of both the Spartakists and the Nazis. Before they crystallized and hardened their differences, there was almost a continuum of opinion on the Left, whose fundamental ideas began to gain popularity among the German officer corps as the old order became discredited by the failure of the national enterprise in the Great War.
If you couldn't see the family resemblance any other way, just look for the self-righteous zeal for repression. It's stamped on both factions' foreheads.
You didn't see my mea culpa down the thread... I mean to write that they WERE leftists... I should post when it's waay past my bedtime. But thanks for more elucidation!
Well, there used to be, in the middle of the 19th century, the dewy-eyed Thoreauvian kind, the "let's elope to Indiana and start a perfect communal farm and live in a New Harmony [as in, New Harmony, Indiana] with one another and Nature" kind of communist.
Of whom, having visited one of their rustic prebends one summer, Ralph Waldo Emerson said drily, "They look well in June. We shall see them in December."
Marcuse, if I'm not mistaken, was a homosexual who advocated a lot of free sex kind to the max. IIRC (I tried to read some stuff by him when I was young and psychotic) he thought the family was destructive. Let me know if I'm wrong.
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