@okie,
okie wrote:
I don't know how you know it is clear from the historical record, George. What is clear is that Hitler was just as philosophically connected to communists as he was capitalists. He railed against capitalists, and if there was a central theme of his hatred, it was the hatred of Jews, one big reason being they represented what he considered to be the greed of capitalism, everything bad about a human race of people, which he felt needed to be exterminated. It wasn't merely the Jews, but the capitalistic greed they represented.
Hard to follow your meaning or point here. The truth is Hitler fiercely opposed Communism, its doctrines and its organized supporters. At the same time he was willing to tolerate capitalists, as long as they were willing to go along with his programs. It's pretty clear that his motivations came not from this or that point on the conventional left-right political spectrum, but rather on some distorted concepts of German nationalism and the injustice done to it after WWI. He wanted power, German expansion, and the mobilization of the population to support his specific aims (that was the extent of his "socialism"). Frankly that doesn't fit neatly anywhere on your supposed political spectrum.
okie wrote:
Today's Leftists hate it when they are reminded that Hitler was a Leftist, so leftist intelligentsia has worked very hard to twist the historical record of what Hitler believed and did. What I am doing is simply pointing out facts. I do not have the bias that Europeans and in particular Germans may carry around still to this very day.
You are repeatedly pointing out your political and historical fantasies - not facts. While you may not share the biases of others, you certainly do bring some very significant (and strange) biases of your own that cloud your understanding of history and your interpretation of current events.
While Stalin and Hitler were alike in that they were authoritarian, murderous dictators, who repeatedly demonstrated that they valued their personal power over any political theories they or their supporters advanced, the political and economic doctrines they and their supporters used to gain power were profoundly different in focus and content. You seem strangely unable to grasp that obvious fact. I suspect it is because recognition of the evident truth would deprive you of some powerful prejudices that appear to satisfy you greatly.
I do agree that the extreme left and right both tend to be authoritarian and therefore dangerous to personal freedom. However that does not mean they are identical in their political and economic aspirations. You appear to be either unable or unwilling to understand this idea - one that is widely recognized by well-informed, thinking people.
Wake up.
