The Nazis were some of the biggest perverts in history. The SA was a gay mafia and one of the reasons the Army hated them was because it was filled with queers. The SS was no better but was good at hiding it.
The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism
While getting a degree in History in the 70s, most of my professors bought into the shared importance of Marx and Freud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudo-Marxism
Marcuse, Fromm, and Foucault were the Big Thinkers of the day. Some of my professors also liked Wilhelm Reich — but he wasn’t officially “cool” because he was a little crazy, thought he could cure cancer, and died in a US federal prison. Reich also got kicked out of the Communist Party, which was certainly his biggest sin.
But basically, unleashing anything-goes sexual desires to convince people that morality, family and private property were weird, backwards, Christian ideas ... that was surely the path to Utopia.
And we seem to have make little progress.
“In style as well as in ideology, fascism and Nazism are phenomena of the political left.”
That’s just not true. It’s a silly claim that just makes conservatives look stupid. There are people on the left who claim that communism is “right wing” too. Both of these groups of people are making up a bogus, ahistorical definition of left or right(whichever one they oppose) that means “they don’t like freedom.”
The reality is there are authoritarian and totalitarian movements on both the right and the left.
Let’s retire this idiotic line of argument. It’s sad that so many older conservatives think that saying stuff like “the Democrats are the real racists” and “nazis were left wing” helps conservatives. It does nothing to disarm leftist attacks and makes conservatives look foolish and dishonest.
Bookmarking to read later.