PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. America.... land of the free, home of the brave.....sort of....well, once was.
You see, just like that apocryphal recipe for boiling a frog.....start with luke warm water and slowly raise the temperature....so it won't know it is being boiled.....
...in America....the same recipe:
We started out honoring freedoms such as speech and private property....and now creeping Fascism, under the auspices of Liberals and Progressives, has slowly turned up the heat to boiling.
2. A lesson from the past about the loss of property rights.....
".... Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And ... socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
The basis of the claim that Nazi Germany was capitalist was the fact that most industries in Nazi Germany appeared to be left in private hands.
.... private ownership of the means of production existedin name onlyunder the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it wasthe German governmentand not the nominal private owners that exercised all of thesubstantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.
De facto government ownership of the means of production... was logically implied by such fundamental collectivist principles embraced by the Nazis as that the common good comes before the private good and the individual exists as a means to the ends of the State. "
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
a. "Fascism may be so gradual in the United States that most voters will not be aware of its existence. The true Fascist leaders will not be present imitators of German Fuhrer and Italian condottieri, prancing in silver shirts. They will be judicious, black-frocked gentlemen; graduates of the best universities; disciples of Nicholas Murray Butler and WalterLippmann." http://www.nationalreview.com/liberal-facism/page/7/0
And so it came to pass.
3. .... it is today, in America, where private ownership, and freedom of speech, and even of thought and conscience, is a misnomer.
And....yes....I'll show that to be the case.
You see, just like that apocryphal recipe for boiling a frog.....start with luke warm water and slowly raise the temperature....so it won't know it is being boiled.....
...in America....the same recipe:
We started out honoring freedoms such as speech and private property....and now creeping Fascism, under the auspices of Liberals and Progressives, has slowly turned up the heat to boiling.
2. A lesson from the past about the loss of property rights.....
".... Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And ... socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
The basis of the claim that Nazi Germany was capitalist was the fact that most industries in Nazi Germany appeared to be left in private hands.
.... private ownership of the means of production existedin name onlyunder the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it wasthe German governmentand not the nominal private owners that exercised all of thesubstantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.
De facto government ownership of the means of production... was logically implied by such fundamental collectivist principles embraced by the Nazis as that the common good comes before the private good and the individual exists as a means to the ends of the State. "
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
a. "Fascism may be so gradual in the United States that most voters will not be aware of its existence. The true Fascist leaders will not be present imitators of German Fuhrer and Italian condottieri, prancing in silver shirts. They will be judicious, black-frocked gentlemen; graduates of the best universities; disciples of Nicholas Murray Butler and WalterLippmann." http://www.nationalreview.com/liberal-facism/page/7/0
And so it came to pass.
3. .... it is today, in America, where private ownership, and freedom of speech, and even of thought and conscience, is a misnomer.
And....yes....I'll show that to be the case.