Previously here.

This same subject is mentioned in WAR Crimes by Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson, pp. 45:

Nowhere in our culture is the anti-American and antimilitary movement more unabashedly embraced than in the nation’s education system -universities, colleges, high schools, elementary levels, and yes, even preschools. Just as jihadists have successfully institutionalized their extreme Islamist and anti-Westernism doctrine in madrassas, so too have America’s academics seized the educational system as a platform for fomenting their radical ideologies.¹

Which is one reason why someone who’d watched what happened in Germany took note of the students at Columbia University rushing the Minutemen on stage and compared them to Hitler’s storm troopers.

Hilmar Von Campe: Well, I did see (the Columbia University Minuteman attack video) before. I did see the video about the event before. That was no surprise for me. We had, we called them “storm troopers”. Hitler had storm troopers who would shut up the opposition. And, that is what these people were trying to do, the same thing.

That’s what they think of our ‘free speech’, that’s why they also have the ‘fairness doctrine’.

This isn’t a recent development. Germany’s universities were among the first institutions to support Adolf Hitler’s policies in the 1930’s. In the face of the spreading Nazi aggression, England’s renowned debating society the Oxford Union resolved “not to defend King and country.” The inevitable result of academia’s short-sighted and misguided perspective was world war and the deaths of tens of millions.²

It makes you wonder when we have clear examples of the fallout of their ideology to look back to, why these people don’t connect the dots.

In this country, the campus unrest of the 60’s spurred the opposition to the Vietnam war and led to American withdrawal from Vietnam - the result of which was the deaths of 2.5 million people. Today, blind to the repeated lessons of history, educational institutions propound the message that America is imperialist, its leaders warmongers, and the U.S. military is evil.³

Not that they’d ever want to even learn from history; they’re too busy rewriting it.

A few more posts are here on the Nazi storm troopers theme. First here, then here, then here.

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?

The Dutch Nazis were very much in cahoots with the German occupation authorities. In translation, it reads: “With Germany AGAINST capitalism”. So Nazism was Rightist? Only in the fevered imaginations of modern Leftists. There is more on the background of the Dutch poster here

Thanks to John Ray, once again.

Engels sees democrats as partners towards achieving Communism

ENGELS ADVOCATED NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION AS STEPS TO COMMUNISM

Far from starting futile quarrels with the democrats, in the present circumstances, the Communists for the time being rather take the field as democrats themselves in all practical party matters. In all civilised countries, democracy has as its necessary consequence the political rule of the proletariat, and the political rule of the proletariat is the first condition for all communist measures. As long as democracy has not been achieved, thus long do Communists and democrats fight side by side, thus long are the interests of the democrats at the same time those of the Communists. Until that time, the differences between the two parties are of a purely theoretical nature and can perfectly well be debated on a theoretical level without common action being thereby in any way prejudiced. Indeed, understandings will be possible concerning many measures which are to be carried out in the interests of the previously oppressed classes immediately after democracy has been achieved, e.g. the running of large-scale industry and the railways by the state, the education of all children at state expense, etc.

Source

The first part in German:

Friedrich Engels, „Die Kommunisten und Karl Heinzen“, 1847

„Die Kommunisten, weit entfernt, unter den gegenwärtigen Verhältnissen mit den Demokraten nutzlose Streitfragen anzufangen, treten vielmehr für den Augenblick in allen praktischen Parteifragen selbst als Demokraten auf. (…) Solange die Demokratie noch nicht erkämpft ist, solange kämpfen Kommunisten und Demokraten also gemeinsam (…)“

MEW a.a.O. 4, 317.

And now John Ray concludes:

This passage is of course a classical formulation of the “fellow-traveller” doctrine. As we see repeatedly in his writing, Engels despised democracy but above he sees Communism as the ultimate endpoint of democracy so says that Communists and democrats should work together to achieve State control of industry and education as the final steps before Communism is achieved.

The State control of industry has fallen by the wayside in modern times but education still seems to be well on track.

Photo from Zombietime’s coverage of a Cindy Sheehan protest -entitled-The World Can’t Wait- courtesy of the Revolutionary Communist Party- from November, 2005.

1. Patterson, R. (Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.) (2007). WAR CRIMES: The Left’s Campaign to destroy our military and lose the war on terror. Crown Publishing, New York. pp. 45.[back]
2. Patterson, R. (Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.) (2007). WAR CRIMES: The Left’s Campaign to destroy our military and lose the war on terror. Crown Publishing, New York. pp. 45.[back]
3. Patterson, R. (Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.) (2007). WAR CRIMES: The Left’s Campaign to destroy our military and lose the war on terror. Crown Publishing, New York. pp. 45.[back]