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220 sats \ 8 replies \ @kepford 7h \ on: Far-right party could see historic gains in this election. Here's why Politics_And_Law
I don't keep up with German politics but there's a massive irony with how their government is becoming more authoritarian to stop a so called authoritarian political party.
One could point to the US red scare and the persecution of suspected Communists. This approach will back fire on them I suspect. Either they are crying wolf and people will stop believing them or they are right and their persecution will build sympathy for the group they persecute.
Regardless, the classification of Nazis as right wing let alone far right is a psyop and and old one. Nazis were socialist but nationalist ones instead of international like the Marxists. Economic wise they were much closer to communists that what we would consider laissez-faire free market types. If Marxism is far left and I think there is little argument against that far right would be free market views or even anarchism.
The left right paradigm breaks down though. You need an X and Y axis. It's just to easy to use the label far right and Nazi to scare people instead of real intellectual arguments.
The obsession with Hitler is really not helpful. The Democratic systems of the world have been doing a great job creating authoritarian systems with smiling faces.
Well said, as usual. In the US we know all about authoritarian systems with smiling faces. Things do seem to be getting really crazy in the UK and Europe lately, though.
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You're probably right.
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For instance? Corporations padding the pockets of elected officials to influence policy?
Revolving door private/public employment opportunities? I guess that's more fascism. Do you mean militarism and suppression of basic rights like speech?
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Yeah, I shouldn't say I never hear them. I hear them from libertarian and anarchists but not mainstream people that LOVE to talk about the "far-right".
So much of what Hilter did was also done in the US during the war but to a lesser extent. The nationalizing of industry for the war, propaganda campaigns that used racism, concentration labor camps based on race (I knew a survivor growing up), limiting free speech, and total war (targeting of civilians). FDR was a tyrannt but he is still considered a hero.
These individual actions should be criticized on all sides but you always get excuses. Hitler was the hero in his mind and to the people who supported him. Justifying your actions can be easy to do and the democratic nations have done a great job at it. Building surveillance states that rivial anything the USSR ever built. Since Snowden I tire of the focus on the far right and left. The US and its allies are an empire that abuses their power. I don't care where it lands on the right / left paradigm.
Musk's crew concerns me but it's not like the issue is new. Just a new crew replacing the old elites that have become bloated and ineffective.
I reject authoritarianism, nationalism, globalism, and statism. We need to realize we do not need the state. The state will always become authoritarian because that is its nature. Voluntary association and governance is the way forward.