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Relax, Beale....it was a joke.
Fahrenheit 451 is about book burning.....
BTW...Hitler and Stalin were both on the Left....totalitarians.
"Liberals claim the center by placing socialism on the left and national socialism on the right, even though Lenin/Stalin and Hitler/other Nazis had much in common as they centralized power and preached hatred. A more accurate spectrum would place totalitarians of many stripes on the left and defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom on the right."
WORLD | Let's admit who we are | Marvin Olasky | July 17, 2010
My apologies. I haven't read that one, WHOOSH, right over my head. I have only read a couple short stories and The Martian Chronicles.
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Well, there are as many ways to chart political affiliation as there are peoples politics, aren't there? No, Hitler was not on the left by many accounts, he was vehemently against state ownership of property, and State control of industries, this is what defines the "Left." It always says something about the person whose opinion should be used on which way they think we should chart political affiliation. Should we use the Nolan Chart? Or should we use the Pournelle chart? I think you knew I was just referring to the standard high school left/right dichotomy as far as communitarian/corporate-monarchic models are concerned.
There are totalitarians on the left and right, you are disingenuous if you think there aren't. Once a politician gets elected POTUS, he does everything he can to consolidate his power, and shifts it away from the other two branches of government in this country, I don't care what party he is. That makes them all authoritarian. It doesn't really matter any more for either party, both take orders from the financial elites that really run the country any how, let go of your partisan illusions. Both parties are corporatist now, that means they are ostensibly, both fascist in nature. This is the result of having so much private money dumped into the campaign, the result of the Iron Triangles in politics, and the result of revolving door politics.
1. Actually, I'd rather use Schivelbusch...Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three New Deals
2. In 1933, Fascism was celebrating its eleventh year in power, in Italy, and the election of the National Socialists in Germany represented an unmitigated defeat for liberal democracy in Europes largest industrialized nation.
a. At the beginning of the same month, FDR was inaugurated as President. And before Congress went into recess it granted powers to Roosevelt unprecedented in peacetime. From Congressional hearings, 1973: Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. Emergency Powers Statutes (Senate Report 93-549)
3. The National Socialists hailed these relief measures in ways you will recognize:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (Peoples Observer): Roosevelts Dictatorial Recovery Measures.
b. And on January 17, 1934, We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America and Roosevelts adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies comparable to Hitlers own dictatorial Fuhrerprinzip.
c. And [Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book Looking Forward could have been written by a National Socialist .one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.
d. The paper also refers to the fictional appearance of democracy.
4. In 1938, American ambassador Hugh R. Wilson reported to FDR his conversations with Hitler: Hitler then said that he had watched with interest the methods which you, Mr. President, have been attempting to adopt for the United States . I added that you were very much interested in certain phases of the sociological effort, notably for the youth and workmen, which is being made in Germany cited in Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol.2, p. 27.
So...I'll go with the definition of Right and Left that I gave earlier.