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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Hitler on Socialism

There are, if you care to look for them, abundant evidences that Adolf Hitler was a socialist and, socialism being a thing of the political Left, it's fair, in my opinion, to point out that Leftists therefore have the honor of having most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' genocidal murderers to their credit. Just for giggles, start here, with Hitler himself, quoted, apparently, by John Toland:
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions
No, I didn't go check the book out from the library to read the quote for myself. Feel free to doubt its veracity if you so choose. For me, I've seen far too many examples of this sort of thing to have any doubt whatsoever that it is representative.

Why write about this? Meh. Annoyance, really. Largely because I get a little tired of Leftists continually painting themselves as innocent of evil, when the reality is that Leftist ideology has been responsible for more war, death, and murder than you can shake a stick at. Will they take responsibility for Mao? No. For Lenin? No. For Stalin? No. Pol Pot? The Khmer Rouge? For Adolf Hitler? No. And yet to argue that these people weren't Leftists, died-in-the-wool Leftists, requires a break from reality of staggering proportions.

And yet they do argue this. Those people aren't real Leftists/Socialists/Communists, you will hear. Real Leftism/Socialism/Communism has never been tried.

So why do Leftists do this? In my opinion, it's because it would require admitting to themselves that their Leftist ideas contain the seed of more hate than just about anything else in the modern world, save, possibly, Islam. And this, they will never do.
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  1. DaveApril 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM

    So why do Leftists do this? In my opinion, it's because it would require admitting to themselves that their Leftist ideas contain the seed of more hate than just about anything else in the modern world, save, possibly, Islam. And this, they will never do.That is a bit of an over-simplified rationalization, don't you think? Sure there are horrible things that have come from the "Left" but there are also horrible things that have come from the "Right". Either left to their own accord would prove disastrous for society. Neither philosophy is perfect, neither is above reproach, and neither is free of evil. It is important that we know our history and where the horrors of the world can come from, but the throwing around of the fascist and Nazi labels is so old and intellectually dishonest that it is mind numbing.

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  2. Man of the WestApril 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    That is a bit of an over-simplified rationalization, don't you think?No, not at all. There will be further explorations of this idea here, over the years.

    ...the throwing around of the fascist and Nazi labels is so old and intellectually dishonest that it is mind numbing.It's only dishonest if you're not convinced. :)

    More to come, from time to time, on this subject as well.

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