Leftist as revolutionary? Yes. Leftist as collectivist? Yes. Leftist as government control of the economy? Yes. Leftist as cosmopolitan? No. Leftist as internationalist? No. Leftist culturally? No.
TBH Nazism is weird. The more I learn about it, the deeper I think it should be studied by the right, just to understand why it resisted so fiercely and why it failed. Instead its a bogeyman, and taboo to talk about it in detail. It's evil and verboten. Hitler word! Turn off brain!
Your bone with Nazism is the government role in central organization and puppeteering the economy. Fair point.
My bone is that it's a revolutionary ideology, and with the possible exception of the American Revolution, which was trying to conserve colonial self-rule in the face of British consolidation of power, revolutions are fucking messy, The odds are stacked against revolutions doing anything more than creating a pile of bodies and causing turnover in the elites. Revolutions destroy tradition, which is deeply ironic in the case of Nazism; in their attempt to 'save' the German tradition, the Nazis managed to poison and destroy it.
Nazism's failures are seriously fucking cautionary and mandatory study for anyone trying to oppose the current world order.
Deep inhale
Nazis are leftists, and are the antithesis of laissez-faire economics which the right stands for.
Leftist as revolutionary? Yes. Leftist as collectivist? Yes. Leftist as government control of the economy? Yes. Leftist as cosmopolitan? No. Leftist as internationalist? No. Leftist culturally? No.
TBH Nazism is weird. The more I learn about it, the deeper I think it should be studied by the right, just to understand why it resisted so fiercely and why it failed. Instead its a bogeyman, and taboo to talk about it in detail. It's evil and verboten. Hitler word! Turn off brain!
Your bone with Nazism is the government role in central organization and puppeteering the economy. Fair point.
My bone is that it's a revolutionary ideology, and with the possible exception of the American Revolution, which was trying to conserve colonial self-rule in the face of British consolidation of power, revolutions are fucking messy, The odds are stacked against revolutions doing anything more than creating a pile of bodies and causing turnover in the elites. Revolutions destroy tradition, which is deeply ironic in the case of Nazism; in their attempt to 'save' the German tradition, the Nazis managed to poison and destroy it.
Nazism's failures are seriously fucking cautionary and mandatory study for anyone trying to oppose the current world order.
The US's traditions are getting plenty of poison without us being Nazis or starting a revolution.
Arguably because the politically and culturally dominant force in the US is dual-national, rather than nationalists.
I don't need to say which nation.
You have to go pretty far back to get the US ruled by US nationalists. Teddy Roosevelt at least, IMHO.