Who Are The Real Nazis?

A number of years ago, I read a profound book by Jonah Goldberg entitled  Liberal Facism: The Secret History Of The American Left From Mussolini To The Politics of Change The title's subheading should give you an idea of when this came out. It was 2009, shortly after the first Obama administration began. Nonetheless, the book is a timeless history of Fascism and the fact that it fits into the spectrum of political thought on the Left. Indeed, I still have the book around here...somewhere.

Even though the Liberal Fascism has been out now for over a decade, and even though scholars had put a lot of this information out there since the end of World War II, a lot of people, who should know better, still claim that Fascism, and particularly the Nazi form of Fascism, are on the Right.  This especially applies to academics, the same ones who claim that the world has never really tried Marxist ideas.  but the truth is that Fascism is a Socialist ideology that differs from Communism very slightly.

All of that is to say that I was gratified to find on the  American Thinker today, and article by Emery Jones entitled With All the Nazi Talk in This Election, Who Were the Nazis? And to answer that question, Jones quotes the Nazis in their own words. Mostly he uses quotes from Joseph Goebbels, who was the Nazi propaganda master; sort of like the Nazi version of Winston Smith's Minstry of Truth.

I urge you to read Jones' hyperlinked article for the details, but the first thing to note is that the Nazis proclaimed themselves to be Revolutionary Socialists.  They were out to destroy capitalism, believing that the only thing that should be paid for was the labor that went into the making of a product.  This is not a new idea, by the way.  The Old Testament of the Bible has laws against usury, the charging of interest.  The Japanese nobility viewed the peasant class as higher than the merchant class.  What socialists seem to forget is that merchants must spend time (labor) finding the products, ensuring the products are of sufficient quality, transporting the product, advertising the product, and making the sale.  All of these services cost money.  And since the merchant likely doesn't have the money to fund this venture on his own, a market where he can find investors to provide start up funds would be extremely helpful.  And don't these investors deserve something for their risk? 

But, there are other similarities between the Nazis and the current Socialists trying to take over than just anti-capitalism.    For example, they had their own military wing, called the Storm Troopers, or Brownshirts.  Now, of course, they are Black Lives Matter organization and Antifa.  The latter ironically named considering Antifa stands for Anti Fascists.

Then there is the squashing of dissenting opinions, including Jewish scientist like Albert Einstein.  

A key characteristic of any socialist government is the control of information. Exposure to ideas that conflict with the government’s perception of the world are not tolerated. In Germany, this led to book burning ceremonies to rid the country of opposing viewpoints. The Nazis required even scientific literature to be approved by the party. Scientific discoveries from famous Jews such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud were included in the book burning ceremonies. Today, we are seeing the modern version of book burning: the limitation of digital dissemination of any data that aren’t approved by the Democrat party. Whether it is unapproved science like studies questioning the effectiveness of lockdowns and masks, or if it is information that may hurt the party, large monopolistic companies aligned with the Democrat party are engaged in the 2020 version of book burning.

Please, gentle reader, go and read Jones' article. And if you haven't yet, please go obtain a copy and read Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism. That's a lot of homework, but it is well worth it.