"Liberal Fascism" is drivel for morons- Right up your alley. Tell us how Hitler was a socialist LOL
1. First, let me congratulate you for revealing your fear of standing up alone, but, rather, hiding behind the oh-so-Liberal "
us," as in "Tell
us...."
It's 'Tell me"...unless you have a tapeworm.
Hoping for your recovery.
2. And, Tugboat, I'm so pleased that you have put on your 'big boy pants,' and requested the remediation that you so clearly require: "Tell us how Hitler was a socialist."
Now, pay attention...and there may be a short quiz at the conclusion.
The premise is that
the economic policies of FDR, Hitler, and Mussolini were, for the most part, consubstantial.
1. The propaganda of the New Deal (“malefactors of great wealth”) to the contrary, FDR imply endeavored to re-create the corporatism of the last war. The New Dealers invited one industry after another to write the codes under which they would be regulated. Even more aggressive, the National Recovery Administration forced industries to fix prices and in other ways to collude with one another: the NRA approved 557 basic and 189 supplementary codes, covering almost 95% of all industrial workers.
a. The intention was for big business to get bigger, and the little guy to be squeezed out: for example, the owners of the big chain movie houses wrote the codes that almost ran the independents out of business (even though 13,571 of the 18,321 movie theatres were independently owned). This in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘progress.’
2. In an even more eerie
echo of Italian Fascist corporatist thought, corporations would replace “geographic jurisdictions as conduits of government support for economic and human development.” Social services- health care, day care, education, and so forth- would all be provided by your employer.
Beginning to see the
socialism of the three administrations?
Good boy!
3. Another early
policy given high priority by the Nazi government was the organizing of all German businesses into cartels. The argument was that—in contrast to the disorderliness and egoism of free market capitalism—
centralization and state control would increase efficiency and a sense of German unity. In July of 1933, membership in a cartel became compulsory for businesses, and by early 1934 the cartel structure was re-organized and placed firmly under the direction of the German government.
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. » Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz
b.
New Deal bureaucrats studied Mussolini’s corporatism closely. From “Fortune” magazine: ‘The Corporate state is to Mussolini what the New Deal is to Roosevelt.’(July 1934)
c. In Germany, workers would become de factor citizens of their companies, in a relationship similar to Krupp’s General Regulations. “The Krupps feared the Social Democrats and to keep them out of their facilities, they used repression and a compensation package that many German workers found quite acceptable. If you worked for Krupp, your children were born in a Krupp hospital, educated in a Krupp school, played on a Krupp playground, etc. You shopped in a Krupp store. It was cradle-to-grave security of sorts. Women advertising for husbands would specify employees of Krupp.”
Chapter Four: notes
4. There are, of course, significant differences between fascism and Progressivism, but these are mainly attributable to the cultural differences between Europe and America- and between national cultures in general. The ends remain the same.
a. The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, "Society and Democracy in Germany").
5. The
National Socialists hailed these ‘relief measures’ that FDR demanded, and got, in ways you will recognize:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.”
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as
German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his [Roosevelt's] 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.”
So, unless you are prepared to argue that FDR was not a socialist, it would be difficult to argue that his economic 'partner' in Germany was not also socialist.
Now, your homework, Tugboat, is to get and study
Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," and "Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939," by Wolfgang
Schivelbusch.
Better get to work!
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