Excellent essay. Eric Hoffer in "True Believer" quotes multiple Axis leaders pointing out how useful "Jews" were as a propaganda tool of the fascists. I put it in scare quotes because that it was they did; it wasn't actual Jewish people that they were worried about so much as imaginary Jews who were everywhere causing evil and problems. One of the quotes pointed out that if Jews hadn't existed they would have to have been invented.
I think "Nazis" have largely become the D's version of Jews, a phantom enemy to blame for all evil and must be fought by giving the D's more power.
I also agree that the over reaches of the Marxissicists will push more people towards becoming the monsters they claim to hate. Pushing a pendulum farther in one direction only makes it swing further in the other direction when it goes. Whether that is part of the D's plan, create actual Nazis they can point to generate more support for themselves, I couldn't say, but it does worry me that they will create a dragon to serve their purposes only to find they can't control it so well as they had hoped. Seems to me that is how civil wars start.
Exactly. Hoffer's book is excellent for understanding what's happening, as the causes of today's political trends are psychological, rather than logical.
Another thing I had meant to say in this essay but forgot -- maybe I'll go back and add it now -- is that "The Nazis are threatening our democracy!" is basically the same thing as Squealer jn Animal Farm saying, "But comrades, surely you do not wish for *Jones* to come back!" It's a red herring to distract from their own evils.
Precisely. Those who desire power always need a crisis or hidden enemy to justify exceptional accumulation of control. Things are never "Going pretty well. Good job, everyone!" Where enemies and crises don't exist they must be created.
To me this is the most compelling argument for sharply curtailing government power, both actual and potential: the potential of that power makes political positions highly desirable for the power hungry, and they will create the problems necessary to get enough support to take that power.
You nailed it! The psychopaths act like viruses, hijacking the institutions and turning them into vectors for attracting and promoting psychopaths. Our friend Harrison Koehli's beat over at https://ponerology.substack.com/!
"Eric Hoffer in "True Believer" quotes multiple Axis leaders pointing out how useful "Jews" were as a propaganda tool of the fascists."
You are completely nuts. There is zero documentation at Treblinka for a reason -killing Jews was done in secret. If there were no Jews, German National Socialists would simply point to Soviet and Soviet-backed communists.
Am I nuts because you think I am misquoting Hoffer, or because you think Hoffer is erroneous? While the Nazis did in fact hunt Communist party members (albeit quietly until the nonaggression pact was broken) the Nazis produced tons of easily checked propaganda against the Jews, not to mention actions like Krystalnacht (which I might be misspelling).
So really I don’t think I quite get what you are trying to say.
Despite all of the debate surrounding the supposed differences between Nazism and Communism, at the functional root of both of their ideologies exists a totalitarian agenda that presupposes their duality of nature... "A strong, centralized government is key to both Nazism and Communism. Bolstered by a military-style police state, each political movement subverts civil liberties, silences dissent, and limits the role of the individual – all in favor of law, order, tradition, and efficiency.
I wonder if the Marxissist's ravings aren't simply a theatrical posturing designed to obfuscate their true political philosophy founded in the ideology of Nazism... It would only seem likely given our current regime's unwavering support of such elements as Ukraine's Azov Battalion... just as one example.
I think communism and true fascism are both different puppets being controlled by the same demonic puppetmaster. Mark Bisone has been on fire on that theme of late: https://markbisone.substack.com/p/strings-attached
Another, not necessarily mutually-exclusive take, is that totalitarianism of whatever flavor was an inevitable result of industrialization, just as the trenches of WWII, and then armored Blitzkrieg, followed inexorably on the Gatling gun: industrialised warfare.
Yes. Maybe Marxissists see fasicsts everywhere because they are essentially looking in a mirror at totalitarians. It's hardly a new idea of course, I argue in my Substack that the Nazis are not far Right, as the Marxissists claim, but on the far Left, with all the people who want an overpowering government.
Communists and fascists play off each other "good-cop/bad-cop" style, and whichever one people go for, they get a brutal dictatorship. It's a lose-lose game. And Marxcissists are trying to force everyone to play.
The goose-stepping Nazi LARPers have no more chance of attaining any sort of political power in America than a Civil War re-enactment troupe has of retaking Dixie. This is painfully obvious to anybody who gives it two seconds of thought, and yet we have spent years hearing that White Supremacists were the Greatest Threat to American Society Since Literally Hitler.
We might well see an authoritarian right-wing government come into power as a more palatable alternative to the left, but they aren't going to identify as Nazis and they aren't going to take their cues from a mid-20th Century German political movement whose greatest achievements were Volkswagens, autobahns, and burning the Institute of Sexology.
Great analogy between nazi LARPers and Civil War reenactors. To take that analogy further, the Left's Marxist agenda won't create a "Confederate Party" with the battle flag as its logo and wearing blue and grey dress uniforms, but the Left *will* get more people thinking a "National Divorce" is idea worth considering.
Their Strrreeeccchhh MARX are showing? Well done! Try to keep free of that Turkey called Government, Left and Right Wings, together can never ever get off the ground. Join me in Voluntaryism? www.voluntaryist.com
Good to have another Free Friend. I believe the "Human Map" does show we can have a peaceful, voluntary, Stateless society if we parent enough peaceful children who are not traumatised to enable the would-be rulers to exist.
Valid points all - glad you made them today. It is very often overlooked that the reason Germany went for Nazism - actually electing the NSDAP on purpose - was because they were the only political group displaying any will or ability to stop the Communists from taking over.
Yeah, and that whole "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- well, here we go again. Cultural Marxists are trying to crash and burn everything in America and throughout the West, and they will create the perfect storm for a Caesar figure (I'll call him a Caesar, because that's probably the best-case scenario) to emerge and give the Left the authoritarian they've been crying wolf about.
Aw heck, no preview. Anyways, #LiterallyHitler returns, is a remarkably charismatic figure (as he was: Gertrude Stein nominated him for a Nobel, he was wildly popular in Germany and beyond until he went all full-tilt Hitler on Poland und so weiter).
I think historians have a fairly clear idea how many people were killed by the fascists, but not for the communists. The estimates vary widely. But just twice? By Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc etc? Come on.
Stalin alone killed far more than that twice whatever the fascists did. Unless people believe the communists own self-reported numbers, which you should never do. One thing about communists, is they tend to be pretty sloppy with their math. I guess you have to be, when your ideology is all make-believe.
Aftet reading all near-1000 pages of MkMeekan's excellent Stalin's War, it's easy to understand why many Eastern European countries, forced to choose, found Hitler to be the lesser of two evils.
What there certainly are are a lot of NPC bitches tending to prove that the 19th Amendment was a bad idea: creatures that by nature will almost always choose security over liberty, and seek to endorse conformity, are inimical to a Republican form of government, and freedom in general.
Excellent essay. Eric Hoffer in "True Believer" quotes multiple Axis leaders pointing out how useful "Jews" were as a propaganda tool of the fascists. I put it in scare quotes because that it was they did; it wasn't actual Jewish people that they were worried about so much as imaginary Jews who were everywhere causing evil and problems. One of the quotes pointed out that if Jews hadn't existed they would have to have been invented.
I think "Nazis" have largely become the D's version of Jews, a phantom enemy to blame for all evil and must be fought by giving the D's more power.
I also agree that the over reaches of the Marxissicists will push more people towards becoming the monsters they claim to hate. Pushing a pendulum farther in one direction only makes it swing further in the other direction when it goes. Whether that is part of the D's plan, create actual Nazis they can point to generate more support for themselves, I couldn't say, but it does worry me that they will create a dragon to serve their purposes only to find they can't control it so well as they had hoped. Seems to me that is how civil wars start.
Exactly. Hoffer's book is excellent for understanding what's happening, as the causes of today's political trends are psychological, rather than logical.
Another thing I had meant to say in this essay but forgot -- maybe I'll go back and add it now -- is that "The Nazis are threatening our democracy!" is basically the same thing as Squealer jn Animal Farm saying, "But comrades, surely you do not wish for *Jones* to come back!" It's a red herring to distract from their own evils.
Precisely. Those who desire power always need a crisis or hidden enemy to justify exceptional accumulation of control. Things are never "Going pretty well. Good job, everyone!" Where enemies and crises don't exist they must be created.
To me this is the most compelling argument for sharply curtailing government power, both actual and potential: the potential of that power makes political positions highly desirable for the power hungry, and they will create the problems necessary to get enough support to take that power.
You nailed it! The psychopaths act like viruses, hijacking the institutions and turning them into vectors for attracting and promoting psychopaths. Our friend Harrison Koehli's beat over at https://ponerology.substack.com/!
"Eric Hoffer in "True Believer" quotes multiple Axis leaders pointing out how useful "Jews" were as a propaganda tool of the fascists."
You are completely nuts. There is zero documentation at Treblinka for a reason -killing Jews was done in secret. If there were no Jews, German National Socialists would simply point to Soviet and Soviet-backed communists.
Am I nuts because you think I am misquoting Hoffer, or because you think Hoffer is erroneous? While the Nazis did in fact hunt Communist party members (albeit quietly until the nonaggression pact was broken) the Nazis produced tons of easily checked propaganda against the Jews, not to mention actions like Krystalnacht (which I might be misspelling).
So really I don’t think I quite get what you are trying to say.
Despite all of the debate surrounding the supposed differences between Nazism and Communism, at the functional root of both of their ideologies exists a totalitarian agenda that presupposes their duality of nature... "A strong, centralized government is key to both Nazism and Communism. Bolstered by a military-style police state, each political movement subverts civil liberties, silences dissent, and limits the role of the individual – all in favor of law, order, tradition, and efficiency.
I wonder if the Marxissist's ravings aren't simply a theatrical posturing designed to obfuscate their true political philosophy founded in the ideology of Nazism... It would only seem likely given our current regime's unwavering support of such elements as Ukraine's Azov Battalion... just as one example.
I think communism and true fascism are both different puppets being controlled by the same demonic puppetmaster. Mark Bisone has been on fire on that theme of late: https://markbisone.substack.com/p/strings-attached
Another, not necessarily mutually-exclusive take, is that totalitarianism of whatever flavor was an inevitable result of industrialization, just as the trenches of WWII, and then armored Blitzkrieg, followed inexorably on the Gatling gun: industrialised warfare.
Yes. Maybe Marxissists see fasicsts everywhere because they are essentially looking in a mirror at totalitarians. It's hardly a new idea of course, I argue in my Substack that the Nazis are not far Right, as the Marxissists claim, but on the far Left, with all the people who want an overpowering government.
Communists and fascists play off each other "good-cop/bad-cop" style, and whichever one people go for, they get a brutal dictatorship. It's a lose-lose game. And Marxcissists are trying to force everyone to play.
My point exactly, but stated more succinctly... Well Done!
The goose-stepping Nazi LARPers have no more chance of attaining any sort of political power in America than a Civil War re-enactment troupe has of retaking Dixie. This is painfully obvious to anybody who gives it two seconds of thought, and yet we have spent years hearing that White Supremacists were the Greatest Threat to American Society Since Literally Hitler.
We might well see an authoritarian right-wing government come into power as a more palatable alternative to the left, but they aren't going to identify as Nazis and they aren't going to take their cues from a mid-20th Century German political movement whose greatest achievements were Volkswagens, autobahns, and burning the Institute of Sexology.
Great analogy between nazi LARPers and Civil War reenactors. To take that analogy further, the Left's Marxist agenda won't create a "Confederate Party" with the battle flag as its logo and wearing blue and grey dress uniforms, but the Left *will* get more people thinking a "National Divorce" is idea worth considering.
Their Strrreeeccchhh MARX are showing? Well done! Try to keep free of that Turkey called Government, Left and Right Wings, together can never ever get off the ground. Join me in Voluntaryism? www.voluntaryist.com
Voluntaryism! It was obvious to me that this was the best system, back when my maps said that "other people are basically like me"...
Good to have another Free Friend. I believe the "Human Map" does show we can have a peaceful, voluntary, Stateless society if we parent enough peaceful children who are not traumatised to enable the would-be rulers to exist.
Valid points all - glad you made them today. It is very often overlooked that the reason Germany went for Nazism - actually electing the NSDAP on purpose - was because they were the only political group displaying any will or ability to stop the Communists from taking over.
Yeah, and that whole "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- well, here we go again. Cultural Marxists are trying to crash and burn everything in America and throughout the West, and they will create the perfect storm for a Caesar figure (I'll call him a Caesar, because that's probably the best-case scenario) to emerge and give the Left the authoritarian they've been crying wolf about.
Look Who's Back:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=40zcGhvekhs&pp=ygUQbG9vayB3aG8ncyBiYWNrIA%3D%3D
Aw heck, no preview. Anyways, #LiterallyHitler returns, is a remarkably charismatic figure (as he was: Gertrude Stein nominated him for a Nobel, he was wildly popular in Germany and beyond until he went all full-tilt Hitler on Poland und so weiter).
“Why do they always get all the attention?!” - a figurative Nazi
German National Socialism is much more widely spread than you think, usually in ethnic German-Polish alliance in academia and manufacturing:
https://eharding.substack.com/p/the-seven-body-composition-types
https://eharding.substack.com/p/why-does-russian-physical-therapy
"Marxists killed many times the number of people that Hitler and Mussolini did."
No. Communists killed ~twice those killed under Hitler and Mussolini.
I think historians have a fairly clear idea how many people were killed by the fascists, but not for the communists. The estimates vary widely. But just twice? By Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc etc? Come on.
Stalin alone killed far more than that twice whatever the fascists did. Unless people believe the communists own self-reported numbers, which you should never do. One thing about communists, is they tend to be pretty sloppy with their math. I guess you have to be, when your ideology is all make-believe.
Aftet reading all near-1000 pages of MkMeekan's excellent Stalin's War, it's easy to understand why many Eastern European countries, forced to choose, found Hitler to be the lesser of two evils.
What there certainly are are a lot of NPC bitches tending to prove that the 19th Amendment was a bad idea: creatures that by nature will almost always choose security over liberty, and seek to endorse conformity, are inimical to a Republican form of government, and freedom in general.