The joys of living under socialism

[InTheLight]

The night of the long knives was to rid Hitler of the SA and their homosexual leadership to placate the military and eliminate a threat to Hitler himself.

Yes, it was all of those things AND a way to get rid of the leftist uber-socialist wing of the party.

 

[Rolfe]

The only fascists in America are the extreme far left liberals. The most anti-freedom,anti-america there has ever been. Some of them on this board.

I wish Baptist Board still had the Dumb-Box Rating.

 

[Revmitchell]

Once again, fascists are the far right.

Oh you mean like the fascists on college campuses that will not let conservatives come on campus and give a speech. Those fascists. Sorry young whipper snapper but those are on the left. How about those who when they do not get their way burn down buildings and stop traffic. Those fascists.

 

[InTheLight]

Oh you mean like the fascists on college campuses that will not let conservatives come on campus and give a speech. Those fascists. Sorry young whipper snapper but those are on the left. How about those who when they do not get their way burn down buildings and stop traffic. Those fascists.

Other fascists are on the far right and they disrupt theater productions and shout out that others are Nazi's.

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[Use of Time]

Oh you mean like the fascists on college campuses that will not let conservatives come on campus and give a speech. Those fascists. Sorry young whipper snapper but those are on the left. How about those who when they do not get their way burn down buildings and stop traffic. Those fascists.

Or take over government property in Oregon and run a police blockade?

 

[Crabtownboy]

Hitler was a Socialist. Period.

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST

You obviously do not now the difference between a socialist and a fascist.

 

[Use of Time]

You obviously do not now the difference between a socialist and a fascist.

CTB, I'm afraid Tom is going to take you to school here shortly.

 

[Bro. James]

Dumb observation: we have a lot of folk digging in dumpsters in the U.S. of A. Day old pizza is worth fighting over.

Power has a tendency to corrupt over time. One problem is the government quit making pink slips. It is nearly impossible to get rid of a bureaucrat.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Bro. James

 

[TCassidy]

CTB, I'm afraid Tom is going to take you to school here shortly.

I'm afraid so too.

Left Wing Facism

Left-wing fascism and left fascism are sociological and philosophical terms used to categorise tendencies in extreme left-wing politics otherwise commonly attributed to the ideology of right wing fascism. Fascism has historically been considered a far right ideology, but crossovers may be expected according to the theory of extremes meet (French: Les extrêmes se touchent), where the touching point between the far left and the far right may be the use of power and/or political terrorism.

The term has its origins with criticism by Vladimir Lenin of the threat of anti-Marxist ultraleftism, before being formulated as a position by sociologists Jürgen Habermas and Irving Louis Horowitz.

The most prominent early user of the term left-fascism was Jürgen Habermas, a sociologist and philosopher influenced by the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School. He used the term in the 1960s to distance the Frankfurt School from the violence and authoritarianism of left-wing terrorists.

Habermas, whose work emphasizes the importance of rational discourse, democratic institutions and opposition to violence, has made important contributions to conflict theory and is often associated with the radical left.

Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz, in his 1984 book "Winners and Losers", built on Vladimir Lenin's work "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. Lenin describes the enemies of the working class as opportunists and petty-bourgeois revolutionaries, which he links to anarchism.

Horowitz argues that there was a similar political strain in the United States in the 1980s, which he characterizes as "left-wing fascism". Horowitz argues that it is dangerous to assume clear distinctions between left, centre and right, and that various combinations are possible. He warned of "left fascism" during later years of the European Years of Lead, which were rife with red-black terrorist groups such as the German Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) and the Italian Red Brigades, which had mixed left- and right-wing influences.

Horowitz argues that "left-wing fascism" in the United States, as in Europe, is capable of combining very different ideological strains into a political formula that has the potential for mass appeal. He argues that it operates through mystified language, attributes faults "everywhere and always in an imperial conspiracy of wealth, power or status", and uses anti-Semitism as a pseudo-populist tool.

(Read more at Left-wing fascism - Wikipedia )