@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:Well, he can speak for himself.
If he's equating German Nazis with American Progressives, then I think it's nonsensical.
Finn, I have compared economic and political policies of the Nazis or Fascists with American progressives, but I have always pointed out that I was not comparing Nazi or Hitler cruelty to them. There is of course a difference, but of course the demagogues here in this forum refuse to see the difference or accurately read what I have written. I have compared economic and political policies because it is necessary to determine whether Nazism was a leftist leaning philosphy or a right leaning philosophy. I stand by what I have said in that regard.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539-7,00.html
I have copied some of the Time Magazine article as follows to provide solid evidence of what I have said in the above, which includes the recounting of Hitler's public works programs and his government's interference in private businesses, even controlling their profits and confiscating them outright if they felt like it.
"What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat. What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations of the once-vaunted German centres of learning have vanished. Education has been reduced to a National Socialist catechism.
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Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for foodstuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism. "
I do not believe it is a stretch at all to compare some things, like the American Reinvestment Act for public works, Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare, some of the energy proposals, and just the general overall increase of government intervention into private business, especially health care, medical insurance, banking, etc., to the above. Again, I make no comparison of American progressives to the cruelty of Nazism or Hitler.
