Is another completely stupid thing, but it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy when they do it. It completes their elitist superiority complex; where they want to be the ‘ruling class’. But it totally disingenuous, so don’t be offended when they do it to you. It just illustrates that they have never really studied nazism, Mein Kempf, realize that the terrorism we’re facing is the same ideology with a sharia twist, and have never read Marx and Engels. This is surprising when the communists fully expect the democrats to help them achieve their goals; and those are the actual words from Engels himself. I caught frenchie and her husband, the two french communists, one an American expat, who called themselves the ‘real left’, chastising the democrats and other leftists at their group blog (I don’t recall the name of it) for not going far enough.

From John Ray (Hitler was a socialist not available on the web, but I have it archived):

We do however need to keep in mind that there is no such thing as PURE Leftism. Leftists are notoriously fractious, sectarian and multi-branched. And even the Fascist branch of Leftism was far from united. The modern-day Left always talk as if Italy’s Mussolini and Hitler were two peas in a pod but that is far from the truth. Mussolini got pretty unprintable about Hitler at times and did NOT support Hitler’s genocide against the Jews (Steinberg, 1990; Herzer, 1989). As it says here:

“Just as none of the victorious powers went to war with Germany to save the Jews neither did Mussolini go to war with them to exterminate the Jews. Indeed, once the Holocaust was under way he and his fascists refused to deport Jews to the Nazi death camps thus saving thousands of Jewish lives - far more than Oskar Schindler.”

“Far more than Oskar Schindler”!. And as late as 1938, Mussolini even asked the Pope to excommunicate Hitler!. Leftists are very good at “fraternal” rivalry.

So unity is not of the Left in any of its forms. They only ever have SOME things in common — such as claiming to represent “the worker” and seeking a State that controls as much of people’s lives as it feasibly can.

Tom Wolfe’s biting essay on American intellectuals also summarizes the origins of Fascism and Nazism rather well. Here is one excerpt from it:

“Fascism” was, in fact, a Marxist coinage.

That makes Kathryn Cramer’s characterization of Bush as a fascist and not a national socialist rather idiotic. President Bush might be further left than I would like in terms of getting elected because of the prescription program for social security recipients, but I would hardly categorize him as a fascist. However, there are many leftists/socialists or members of the House Progressive Caucus who I would characterize as fascists.

Marxists borrowed the name of Mussolini’s Italian party, the Fascisti, and applied it to Hitler’s Nazis, adroitly papering over the fact that the Nazis, like Marxism’s standard-bearers, the Soviet Communists, were revolutionary socialists. In fact, “Nazi” was (most annoyingly) shorthand for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. European Marxists successfully put over the idea that Nazism was the brutal, decadent last gasp of “capitalism.”

Which is why the socialists and Marxists of today try to call us nazis and fascists in one breath.

{From the essay “In the Land of the Rococo Marxists” originally appearing in the June 2000 Harper’s Monthly and reprinted in Wolfe’s book Hooking Up. Extended excerpt here}

Other sources on the basic facts about Hitler that history tells us are Roberts (1938), Heiden (1939), Shirer (1964), Bullock (1964), Taylor (1963), Hagan (1966), Feuchtwanger (1995).

The above are however secondary sources and, as every historian will tell you, there is nothing like going back to the original — which is why much original text is quoted above. For further reading in the original sources, the first stop is of course Mein Kampf. It seems customary to portray Mein Kampf as the ravings of a madman but it is far from that. It is the attempt of an intelligent mind to comprehend the world about it and makes its points in such a personal and passionate way that it might well persuade many people today but for a knowledge of where it led.

Actually the arabic version of Mein Kempf is selling very well in the Arab world today.

The best collection of original Nazi documents on the web is however probably here. Perhaps deserving of particular mention among the documents available there is a widely circulated pamphlet by Goebbels here. One excerpt from it:

The bourgeois is about to leave the historical stage. In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism. The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the political. It is not merely a matter of pay, not only a matter of the number of hours worked in a day-though we may never forget that these are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the socialist platform-but it is much more a matter of incorporating a powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it the dominant force in the future politics of the Fatherland

So Hitler was both a fairly typical pre-war Leftist in most respects and would also make a pretty good modern Leftist in most respects. Aside from his nationalism, it is amazing how much he sounds like modern Leftists in fact. And his nationalism was in fact one way in which he was smarter than modern Leftists.

Here are a few interesting photographs (John Ray here and here) from some of the posters that were put up in nazi germany during the 30’s to promulgate Hitler’s political views. Notice the similarity to the leftists of today:

Translated, the poster reads: “The Marshall and the corporal fight alongside us for peace and equal rights”

Can you get a more Leftist slogan than that? “Peace and equal rights”? Modern-day Leftists sometimes try to dismiss Hitler’s socialism as something from his early days that he later outgrew. But when this poster was promulgated he was already Reichskanzler (Prime Minister) so it was far from early days. Once again we see what a barefaced lie it is when Leftists misrepresent Hitler as a Rightist. We can all have our own views about what Hitler actually believed but he campaigned and gained power as a democratic Leftist. The March 5, 1933 election was the last really democratic election prewar Germany had and, in it, Hitler’s appeal was Leftist.

It reads: “Mit Adolf Hitler “Ja” fuer Gleichberechtigung und Frieden” — which translates as “With Adolf Hitler “Yes” for equal rights and peace” — the same old standby slogans that the Left trot out to this day, of course.

The slogan in this photograph says something that you won’t believe unless you are aware of how readily all Leftists preach one thing and to one another. Because many people don’t even know that for much of the 30s Hitler was actually something of a peacenik. It reads “Mit Hitler gegen den Ruestungswahnsinn der Welt”. And what does that mean? It means “With Hitler against the armaments madness of the world”. “Ruestung” could more precisely be translated as “military preparations” but “armaments” is a bit more idiomatic in English.

And who is it exactly that wants us to disarm?

We’ll get to Hitler was a Green in a day or so.