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On Mar 30, 7:50*pm, "Chas.Chan" wrote:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...mussolini.html Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. Benito Mussolini ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *here are the three 3 phases of conservative decay. 1.conservatism(policies always fail) 2. libertarianism(the drive for purity, the conservative polices and those that implemented them, were not pure enough) 3. fascism(the rise of the strong man to ensure purity), the strongman will drive out the impure, liberals, jews, immigrants, trade unionists, communists, socialists, those with mental and physical defects, gypsies, etc. this to fails on a huge scale. just look what happened to the central european fascists. they collapsed their economies, and came up millions of workers and soldiers short. |
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On Mar 30, 10:42*pm, Nickname unavailable wrote:
Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism, the ties that bind:"the Left" were the people who were beaten and murdered in the 1920s by the squadristi and the Brownshirts; and the first Germans sent off to Nazi concentration camps like Dachau were not Jews but socialists, communists, and other left-wing political prisoners, including "liberal" priests and clerics. Without their revisionist lies, today's extreme radical kooky right has nothing. Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism European fascism drew on existing anti-modernist conservatism, and on the conservative reaction to communism and 19th-century socialism. Conservative thinkers such as historian Oswald Spengler provided much of the world view (Weltanschauung) of the Nazi movement. In Britain, the conservative Daily Mail enthusiastically backed Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and part of the Conservative Party supported closer ties with Nazi Germany. When defeat in World War II ideologically and historically discredited fascism, almost all Western conservatives tried to distance themselves from it. Nevertheless, many post-war Western conservatives continued to admire the Franco regime in Spain, clearly conservative but also fascist in origin. With the end of the Franco regime and Portugal's Estado Novo in the 1970s, the relationship between conservatism and classical European fascism was further weakened. Militarism is perhaps the most striking similarity between Fascism and contemporary American conservatism. Of course, there are many liberals in America who support the military and even call for increased military spending. Even so, American liberals are traditionally more skeptical of the military than American conservatives. It is often said that Neoconservatives, like Hitler, see the military as a paradigm for problem solving (even in situations that may render militarism impractical or unethical). The relationship of fascism to right-wing ideologies (including some that are described as neo-fascist) is still an issue for conservatives and their opponents. Especially in Germany, there is a constant exchange of ideology and persons, between the influential national-conservative movement, and self-identified national- socialist groups. In Italy too, there is no clear line between conservatives, and movements inspired by the Italian Fascism of the 1920s to 1940s, including the Alleanza Nazionale which is member of the governing coalition under premier Silvio Berlusconi. Conservative attitudes to the 20th-century fascist regimes are still an issue.. Under an ideological definition of Socialism, for example one stating that only a system adhering to the principles of Marxism can qualify as socialist there is a well-defined gap between Nazism and socialism. Nazi leaders were opposed to the Marxist idea of class conflict and opposed the idea that capitalism should be abolished and that workers should control the means of production. For those who consider class conflict and the abolition of capitalism as essential components of socialism, these factors alone are sufficient to categorize "National Socialism" as non-socialist. ------------------------- The 2000 book, Right-Wing Populism in America, details its history from Bacon's Rebellion to the Ku Klux Klan to the modern-day Posse Comitatus and militia/Patriot movements. What distinguishes these populists from their left-wing counterparts, as Berlet explains, is that "they combine attacks on socially oppressed groups with grassroots mass mobilization and distorted forms of antielitism based on scapegoating." Other notorious right wing figures in 20th century history include Father Charles Coughlin, the rabid anti-Semitic radio talker of the 1930s, and Sen. Joe McCarthy. Beyond the Klan, there were the Silver Shirts, the American Nazi Party, the Posse Comitatus, the Aryan Nations, or the National Alliance -- all of them openly right wing fascist organizations, many of them involved in some of the nation's most horrific historical events. (The Oklahoma City bombing, for instance), then there was William Dudley Pelley, Gerald L.K.Smith, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Potter Gale, Richard Butler, and David Duke -- all of them bona fide right wing racists and fascists. "the Left" were the people who were beaten and murdered in the 1920s by the squadristi and the Brownshirts; and the first Germans sent off to Nazi concentration camps like Dachau were not Jews but socialists, communists, and other left-wing political prisoners, including "liberal" priests and clerics. Then why did the Nazis HATE Marxism, Communism, and Socialism? Just how uneducated do you Conservative propagandists assume we are? Everybody knows the Nazis were right wingers. * From "World Book Encyclopedia", 1958, p. 5467: * * The name National Socialist German Workers Party does not * * correctly describe the Nazi movement. *It was neither * * socialist nor organized for the benefit of workers. *The * * name was apparently developed in an effort to win the * * support of the working classes.... * * Nazism was only a part of of the broad social movement * * known as Fascism which gained millions of supporters in * * many countries during the 1930's.... * * The industrialists gave financial support to the party * * because they thought the Nazis would protect them from * * from socialism and communism, and from the increasing * * strength of the labor unions. * End Quotes. britannica.com http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...16,56489+1+551 11,00.html Nazi Party June 24 '00 * *"The [Nazi] party's socialist orientation was basically a * *demagogic gambit designed to attract support from the * *working class." ("Gambit;" *From "legs." *Something designed to trip up another. Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.) * *"By 1932 big-business circles had begun to finance the * *Nazi electoral campaigns, and ....." "Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the *party came to * * power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian.... Next year: *"Hitler crushed the Nazi Party's left, or * *socialist-oriented, * wing in 1934, executing Ernst Röhm and other rebellious * * SA leaders at this time. Thereafter, Hitler's word was * * the supreme and undisputed command in the party." =========== From the Concord Desk Encyclopedia, 1977, Fascism, p 455: * *"It rejects...liberalism... and socialism. Instead it * *promotes *an organic social order whereby the individual will find * * *his own place in family, profession and society * * *according to his character and ability. *Nationalism and * * *militarism are its logical products and thus it has * * *close ties with Nazism. `Fascist` has become a term of * * *abuse for many because of the ugly aspects of fascism, * * *and is often used of anyone whose views are right wing. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/B...&type=booklist The Encyclopedia Britannica defines conservatism as “a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal,” explaining that “conservatives prefer institutions and practices that have evolved gradually and are manifestations of continuity and stability.” But without a historical, political, and cultural frame of reference, this definition tells us little about the principles that conservatism upholds. The established traditions of different cultures vary greatly, and thus “conservatism” means something unique in each culture. As the author and syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg has pointed out: “To say a conservative is someone who wishes to conserve is technically correct but practically useless. 'Liberals' these days are in many respects more conservative than 'conservatives.' American conservatives want to change all sorts of things, while liberals are keen on keeping the status quo (at least until they get into power). The most doctrinaire Communists in the Soviet Politburo were routinely called 'conservatives' by Kremlinologists.” To be conservative within a revolutionary tradition simply means to conserve the paradigm peculiar to that revolution. In the United States, the libertarian ethos of the American Revolution inspired a tradition based on individual rights, free markets and democratic constitutions. To be conservative, or on the “right,” in the context of the democratic West means to preserve the classical liberal, individualist and free-market framework that is its historic achievement. Among the highest values of this framework a -individual rights and freedoms (as opposed to group rights, group privileges, and group-identity politics [i.e. Socialism-NAZI]); -the rule of law (as opposed to the rule of men [i.e. Socialism-NAZI], as manifested in judicial activism and the view that the Constitution is a "living," and therefore infinitely malleable, document); -private property (as opposed to the communality of property that is apportioned "equitably" by a central government [I.E. Socialism- NAZI]); -free markets (as opposed to an economy that is managed and controlled by bureaucrats); and -limited government (as opposed to a massive, omnipotent government that micromanages virtually all aspects of people's lives [I.E. Socialism-NAZI]). Jonah Goldberg expands upon this theme: “[A] conservative in America is a liberal in the classical sense — because the institutions conservatives seek to preserve are liberal institutions. This is why Hayek [ http://mises.org/page/1454/Biography...Hayek-18991992 ] explicitly exempted American conservatism from his essay 'Why I am Not a Conservative.' The conservatives he disliked were mostly continental thinkers who liked the marriage of Church and State, hereditary aristocracies, overly clever cheese, and the rest. The conservatives he liked were Burke, the American founders, Locke et al.” Conservatism (in its current sense as a phenomenon in Western culture) denies the perfectibility of humanity; it rejects the optimistic notion that human beings can be morally improved through social and political change. Unlike the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean- Jacques Rousseau, who characterized the political institutions of his day as “chains” hindering man’s expression of his natural goodness, conservatism assumes that human beings are naturally flawed; that they are prone to such vices as selfishness, anarchy, irrationality, and violence; and that to curb the base and destructive instincts that are part and parcel of the human condition, we must rely upon traditional political and cultural institutions -- without whose restraining power there could be no ethical behavior and no responsible use of liberty. This brand of conservatism began to develop as a distinct political attitude and movement in the late eighteenth century, in reaction to the upheavals caused by the French Revolution. The term “conservative” was coined in France after 1815 by supporters of the newly restored Bourbon monarchy. Fifteen years thereafter, the British politician and writer John Wilson Croker used the term to describe the British Tory Party. John Calhoun, a staunch defender of states’ rights in the United States, used the term in the 1830s. The recognized father of modern conservatism (though he never used the term himself) is the British parliamentarian and political writer Edmund Burke, whose 1790 treatise Reflections on the Revolution in France rejected the violent, untraditional methods of the French Revolution. But Burke was not opposed to social change as a matter of unwavering principle. Indeed, he supported the American Revolution (1775–83), which he considered a justified defense of traditional liberties against King George III’s tyranny. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...156&type=issue http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/v...ory.asp?id=286 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/v...ory.asp?id=714 The "Inventor" of Modern Conservatism http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/A...servatism.html |
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