PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
In another thread, Tired Of Democrats Use Of "Fascist", the OP attempted to explain why use of the term 'Fascist," and "Nazi" applied to the Right, had no real meaning.
It is simply a lie.
There is more to be said, but that thread has about 300 responses already, and has become unwieldy for readers wishing to see all or most of it.
So, this short summry:
The Right cannot be Fascist or Nazi or any of the pejoratives, because the terms are of and for the Left.
1. ..". Fascism was mostly in place by about 1910. Historically, the taproot of Fascism lies in the 1890s--in the "Crisis of Marxism" and in the interaction of nineteenth-century revolutionary socialism with fin de siècle(world-weary sophistication) anti-rationalism and anti-(classical) liberalism.
2. Fascism was a movement with its roots primarily in the left .Its leaders and initiators were secular-minded, highly progressive intellectuals, hard-headed haters of existing society and especially of its most bourgeois aspects.
3. Fascism began as a revision of Marxism by Marxists, a revision which developed in successive stages, so that these Marxists gradually stopped thinking of themselves as Marxists, and eventually stopped thinking of themselves as socialists. They never stopped thinking of themselves as anti-(classical) liberal revolutionaries.
The Crisis of Marxism occurred in the 1890s. Marxist intellectuals could claim to speak for mass socialist movements across continental Europe, yet it became clear in those years that Marxism had survived into a world which Marx had believed could not possibly exist. The workers were becoming richer, the working class was fragmented into sections with different interests, technological advance was accelerating rather than meeting a roadblock, the "rate of profit" was not falling, the number of wealthy investors ("magnates of capital") was not falling but increasing, industrial concentration was not increasing, (22) and in all countries the workers were putting their country above their class. .... the hollowness of Marxism was being exposed. The long-awaited publication of Volume III of Marx's Capital in 1894 revealed that Marx simply had no serious solution to the "great contradiction" between Volumes I-II and the real behavior of prices."
So.......are you Democrat propagandists about to claim that the Right is..........
MARXIST?????
It is simply a lie.
There is more to be said, but that thread has about 300 responses already, and has become unwieldy for readers wishing to see all or most of it.
So, this short summry:
The Right cannot be Fascist or Nazi or any of the pejoratives, because the terms are of and for the Left.
1. ..". Fascism was mostly in place by about 1910. Historically, the taproot of Fascism lies in the 1890s--in the "Crisis of Marxism" and in the interaction of nineteenth-century revolutionary socialism with fin de siècle(world-weary sophistication) anti-rationalism and anti-(classical) liberalism.
2. Fascism was a movement with its roots primarily in the left .Its leaders and initiators were secular-minded, highly progressive intellectuals, hard-headed haters of existing society and especially of its most bourgeois aspects.
3. Fascism began as a revision of Marxism by Marxists, a revision which developed in successive stages, so that these Marxists gradually stopped thinking of themselves as Marxists, and eventually stopped thinking of themselves as socialists. They never stopped thinking of themselves as anti-(classical) liberal revolutionaries.
The Crisis of Marxism occurred in the 1890s. Marxist intellectuals could claim to speak for mass socialist movements across continental Europe, yet it became clear in those years that Marxism had survived into a world which Marx had believed could not possibly exist. The workers were becoming richer, the working class was fragmented into sections with different interests, technological advance was accelerating rather than meeting a roadblock, the "rate of profit" was not falling, the number of wealthy investors ("magnates of capital") was not falling but increasing, industrial concentration was not increasing, (22) and in all countries the workers were putting their country above their class. .... the hollowness of Marxism was being exposed. The long-awaited publication of Volume III of Marx's Capital in 1894 revealed that Marx simply had no serious solution to the "great contradiction" between Volumes I-II and the real behavior of prices."
| The Mystery of Fascism by David Ramsay Steele |
The Mystery of Fascism by David Ramsay Steele
www.la-articles.org.ukSo.......are you Democrat propagandists about to claim that the Right is..........
MARXIST?????
