• MacN'Cheezus
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    11 months ago

    He also very explicitly said that the nazis weren’t socialist, and all of the parties policies were hard capitalist.

    The word “Nazi” is literally short for “Nationalsozialist” (i.e. national socialist). Notice anything here?

    The most prominent distinction he made between national socialism and socialism is in the word “national”. Socialists are international, while the Nazis were concerned with their own countrymen’s welfare only.

    We live in a capitalist society. Any attempt to claim this isn’t capitalism and we have a shift toward actual capitalism is an attempt to sell you fascism.

    What then is social security, medicare, unemployment insurance, etc.? Those are all socialist programs. We can argue about their quality or effectiveness all day long but pure capitalism would get rid of them immediately. Also I don’t think you have any idea of what fascism actually is.

    Yes. When they removed the secret ingredient, the landlords could not maintain their property relations with the peasants. That is correct.

    What on earth are you talking about?

    Well then either you’re really sheltered or you haven’t been paying attention.

    Not at all, I’ve certainly experienced my share of violence, but after doing a lot of research and introspection, I came to the conclusion that it’s not capitalism that’s primarily to blame for that, it was how I engaged with it that was the problem. If you stop fighting capitalism, it stops fighting you, too. Consider being thrown in a deep body of water without knowing how to swim. If you frantically fight to stay afloat you’re just gonna wear yourself out and then start to drown. But if you relax and stop resisting, and just focus on your breathing instead, you realize you can just float on the surface without working too hard.

    Oh, well if it worked for you, I guess those slave laborers can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. And all those genocide victims should have just spent more time educating themselves.

    Again, not entirely sure what you’re on about here, but in case you consider yourself one of them, I am literally trying to hand you the key to your cage. But you DO have to use it on your own and let yourself out if you actually want to be free from oppression.