Socialist or Fascist? (Thomas Sowell on Obama)

Creators Syndicate ^ | June 12, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

[CSM]

“I never saw fascism as a construct of the right despite attempts by historians to foist it on us.”

I agree and I have never been able to figure out why Hitler and Russia were enemies and not allies in WWII.

[jazusamo]

Welcome to the Sowell ping list, you’re on.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I’m glad to see Tom finally caught up with me on this topic! /grin

Give him a break. That is not an easy task.

:-)

[warsaw44]

Brilliant (as usual). Why isn’t he running for president?

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Because hes a racist. s/

[Erasmus]

I have one small quibble - it was specifically Hitler’s betrayal of Uncle Joe that made him a “right winger”; up to that point he was fawned over by the left.

Indeed. Neither Hitler or Stalin expected the treaty to last; they were simultaneously finalizing the division of Poland, and in Hitler's case buying time for his military preparations for a two-main-front war.

So Hitler gladly assented to the treaty. In the event, he was able to move against Stalin, breaching the line of detente in Poland, sooner than Stalin could have anticipated; it reportedly left Stalin catatonic with shock for a day or two.

Sort of like the beginning moves of an aerial engagement, where you're able to turn inside your enemy.

As you point out about the American and English Communists, especially those taking their marching orders from Moscow, they turned literally overnight from peace lovers abhoring the idea of war with the Hun, into cheerleaders for war with him.

[Erasmus]

Great post, Sherman. I like your analogy with the Lord of the Rings.

[Erasmus]

Great post, Sherman. I like your analogy with the Lord of the Rings.

[Sherman Logan]

The case I make with leftist idiots is as follows: What did the Tea Party represent: Smaller, limited government. What does conservatism represent? Smaller, limited government.

Accurate, generally, for American Right.

The traditional European Right has almost nothing in common with the American version. They are (or were) trying to conserve a pre-modern version of society based on King and Church.

There has just never been anything resembling that in American politics.

Fascism was created by pulling various elements of this European Right and combining it with elements from the European Left.