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- #121
The difference between National Socialism and any other kind of socialism lies entirely in the National. While my preference for Obama's new title is Il Duce rather Der Fuhrer the difference is small. Lying only in the fact that Moussolini's fascists weren't in partivular rascist.
It is also interesting and quite intructive to note that until his falling out with Stalin during the Spanish Civil War virtually every American leftist of the day thought Hitler a leftist in good standing and most raved about the 'Miracles' being wrought in Hitler's Germany and Moussolini's Italy. The notion that Naziism and Fasciism are right wing ideas is sophistry - to say nothing of revisionism - at its worth.
Actually, it was the Republicans in Congress raving about Hitler's Germany...I recommend a little collection of their Congressional speechs lauding Hitler and insisting on neutrality in the War in Europe...the collection is called "The Magnificent Dunderheads."