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| Communists just want to have fun |
| 2012-09-17 |
| I'm sure Stalin would have had a blast. Shows trials, the authentic Gulag experience, firing squads at dawn. It's a report on a communist run music festival in France. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #5 "I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor. The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world." -- Adolf Hitler Living in the grinding poverty of the Vienna slums, Hitler soon realized that a wholesome national pride could not be aroused in men who lacked the necessities of life. Hence his interest in social betterment, which ultimately brought the word 'Socialist' into the name of his party. Like William Morris, he turned to Socialism as a necessary preliminary to the dissemination of his great idea. Morris became a Socialist, bent on improving the living conditions of the English masses, in order to make them listen to his artistic gospel. Hitler became a Socialist (in his sense of the word) so that the German masses would listen to his gospel of nationalism. -- Nicolas Fairweather, The Atlantic, March 1932 "We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags – they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!" -- Adolf Hitler, April 1938 |
| Posted by: gromky 2012-09-17 14:00 |
| #4 Yup. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-09-17 13:05 |
| #3 the National Socialists This is one of my pet peeves lately. Everyone "knows" the commies are left-wing and the Nazis are right-wing. (we learned it in school!). Yeah, maybe compared to each other, but the name Nazi came from National Socialist German Workers' Party. They were into national socialism (duh!) vs the commie's international socialism. Nazis, commies, call it what you want, but it's still socialism and still a left-wing ideology. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-09-17 12:46 |
| #2 Mao and Stalin's body count dwarf Adolf and the National Socialists, but get far better press in academia as cover for a failed political construct. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-17 09:32 |
| #1 At least the French enjoy a festival. Hollywood simply sends large cheques. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-17 05:15 |