05-04-2017, 01:59 PM
(04-30-2017, 06:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: To the contrary, the socialism came first; the name came later, to differentiate the national socialists from the international socialists.
The "international socialists" were Commies. "National" socialism is practically a negation. It is the use of Big Government to enforce a 'socialism of the rich' -- a new feudalism in which workers are helpless against the willful greed and cruelty of their private employers.
In Nazi Germany, a law existed that forbade workers from seeking new employment without consent of their existing employers. So one can't leave your job without the consent of your employer? That was part of feudalism, and that caused the severe exploitation.
National Socialism is the coordination of all economic activity possible on behalf of what the leadership presents as the Nation -- the Party and its financial backers. It did attract some rogue socialists who either confused the People with the nation or sold out to the fascist brutes because they found that it was easier and more lucrative to deliver a beating to strikers than to take the beating with fellow workers.
Both National Socialism and International (Marxist-Leninist) Socialism achieved serfdom. Even without the racism, National Socialism was a raw deal.
For a valid alternative -- there are more liberal and humanistic variants of socialism than either "national" or "international" socialism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.