Can anyone explain to me why this group, Golden Dawn, is labeled as “Neo-nazi”?
Their politics are based on socialistic types of government promotion.
This is why (I’m reposting this from the older thread on the Greek elections).
And I’m looking at their website right now with Chrome Translate... yeah, they really deserve being called neo-nazis. The whole place seems to ooze fascism from every poor. Every sentence I read, I was just waiting for them to start ranting about the “International Jews” sucking the nation of Greece dry (they did go on about how Communism and the Soviet Union was created by the Jews to further their goals of global control). It continues about how the good guys lost WW2, and yes, they are Holocaust deniers. They seem to be selling the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on their website, along with large amounts of Nazi literature.
They’re calling for:
Creating a Greater Greece by:
Annexing the Republic of Cyprus.
Annexing the Republic of Macedonia.
“Liberating” southern Albania, Thrace, and the Turkish islands of the Aegean Sea.
Nationalizing the banks and using the money to develop industry to “make Greece self-sufficient”.
Nationalizing the energy industry.
Strategic sectors of the economy to be nationalized by the government. Less vital sectors should be controlled by the government, even if not owned.
Creating a “national workers union” (shades of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront)
For conscientious objectors to be stripped of citizenship and exiled.
Creating a new military police force.
Nationalizing all education under central state control.
For full citizenship only for ethnic Greeks.
For only full citizens to be able to own land.
It goes on and gets rather... disturbing. These people are blatant Neo-Nazis, and yet they managed to get 22 seats! Just listen to this stuff.
The Ideology of the People’s Association “Golden Dawn” is that of popular and social nationalism. For us Chrysafgites, the homeland remains the supreme value. The nation is our foremost Race, Blood, Origin. We are a social and popular movement. The oppression of the economically weaker compatriots of the mechanisms of economic oligarchy finds our detractors and determined to defend the interests of the people and social justice. For us Chrysafgites tradition, the historical rights of our Nation and the idea of Hellenism are the supreme values, through which we experience the world and approach the concept of culture. We believe and strive for the realization of the Great Idea for a Greater Greece and a New Greek Culture.
1) I accept the third major ideology of history, the most rooted in the history of my people. The same anti-communism internationalism and universalism-liberalism.
2) I accept the need for a state founded and built with this ideology that continually nourishes and directs the individual and collective life. A state that serves these eternal principles of revolutionary Nationalist worldview ever, with the ultimate aim of forming a new society and “a new type of man.
3) I accept the moral imperatives arising from my worldview and work for radical renewal of the obsolete and counterfeit social values. The ideology I do not seek to salvage anything from the established economic and social interests that lead nations, peoples and culture in decline. So I’m an enemy of any power that perpetuates this decay anyway for backup of the plutocracy. Any power or dictatorship of the military and economic interests are either parliamentary dictatorship. Why are two sides of same coin: the unpatriotic isopedotismou
4) I understand that nationalism is the only absolute and real revolution because it seeks birth of new ethical, spiritual, social and spiritual values. The right and left solutions supposedly fighting each other, it’s just theater two partners who perpetuate the dominance of cosmopolitan internationalist and anti-national and anti-popular forces.
5) I think the only state that serves to correct the historical role of the People is the state where political power is the People without party pimps. For the People nationalism is not only a numerical section of people but a qualitative composition of people with the same biological and intellectual heritage, which is the source of all creation and expresses its power in secular state. The only state that can express the people as an organic whole and spiritual living.
6) The falsified the left and right policies are directed error, because democracy means rule of the municipality that the People made up of people common origin (definition of the Citizen in Classical Athens). And People’s State of Nationalism is the only direct democracy. The state of the People is the only reality that does not need power, but leadership. The People are the real ruler, the prince himself through his leader. So the secular state can realizes the only possible equality (derived from Thinking and not natural, but human culture - political creation), equality of opportunity. In contrast to the transient and redeemable majority of parliamentary management. general will of the people is the Supreme Law, submission to which the direct cause of justice for the whole of each unit. ......
7) I realize that the People’s State of the Nationalist Ideology is the absolute fairness and social equality political hierarchy. In the secular state there is no social stratification based on income-economic classes. The popular classes are collaborating organic, other groups of people with special abilities and production skills each. Just like in a living organism. The different systems contribute to full harmony and cooperation for survival. Rule of the People’s State of the relations of the People - is the class of organic solidarity. The few people who have finally break the organic relationship with the roots of the People are the members of “plutocratic oligarchy” with cosmopolitanism, and members of guiding groups of “Bolshevik-piece union oligarchy” with the internationalism. The oligarchies of money and party tyranny is the same. Enemies of the Nation and the People.
8) I am an enemy of the vast and exploitative property, either locally or internationalist, and a champion of family mikroidioktisias of clergy or sanctuary of our ancestors. Money is a means necessary and not a factor regulating life or an end in itself. The ultimate goal of the secular state is the elimination of tiered pseftoantikeimenikis value of money and the controlled use as a replacement instrument. The state should control private property so that it is not dangerous for the survival of the People or is qualified to manipulate. The economy is designed to serve the national policy and to ensure maximum self-sufficiency to dependence on international markets and control of any multinational.
Is this what was going on in Germany in 1930?
Just because a party calls themselves conservative, doesn’t mean that they are, especially in the American political use of the term! Don’t read of foreign affairs and automatically equate Conservative = Good!
obviously it is the same thing there as it is here with the southern poverty law center. if they are not politically correct liberals they of course are Nazis- just ask former pres. George Bush or any conservative for that matter.
I find it interesting and to a certain extent encouraging that some of these people are willing to be branded “nazi” in order to take back their country.
Collectively- if you will excuse that word, we all have been labeled nazi by the sharptons the maddows the olbermanns the pelosis etc because we do not follow the pc ideology. you disagree with sharpton you are a racist, diagree with maddow you are a(gasp) homophobe.
as long as the left has the ability to control the language and thus the discussion the have the upper hand.