09-06-2021, 12:44 PM
** 06-Sep-2021 World View: Communistm, Socialism and Fascism
None of these words makes any sense at all. When I was in high
school, after the Army-McCarthy hearings, I discovered that the "z" in
Nazi stood for Socialism, and wondered if Naziism is the same as
Socialism. No, I was told. Naziism was not Socialism. It was
"National Socialism," which was a different thing. And liberal
teachers bent themselves into pretzels explaining the difference
between Socialism and National Socialism.
Is Fascism the same as Naziism? I used to think that the "s" in
Fascism also stood for Socialism, but apparently not, since the word
has an entirely different derivation. Nonetheless, after WW II,
Fascism and Naziism are thought to be similar, or at most that Fascism
is a watered down form of Naziism that keeps the trains running on
time.
Then there's the issue of Communism in China. Mao Zedong's Great Leap
Forward and Cultural Revolution killed tens of millions of innocent
Chinese needlessly, and destroyed and devastated China's economy for
decades, so much so that China still hasn't recovered. Mao Zedong
also completely destroyed the value of Communism, Socialism and
Marxism. So as soon as Mao died, Deng Xiaoping came to power and
implemented the "Opening up and reform" policies, which was a
rejection of Communism, Socialism and Marxism, in support of free
markets.
In the 1980s, another hard-core Communist, Le Duan, died. Truong
Chinh, a political enemy of Le Duan, came to power, and implemented
the Doi Moi market reforms which, once again were a rejection of
Communism, Socialism and Marxism, in support of free markets. This
was highly successful, and turned Vietnam from an economic basket case
to an economic powerhouse.
So China and Vietnam still call themselves "Communist," but they are
no longer communist. I would call them "Fascist."
However, China seems to be returning to the destructive policies of
Mao Zedong, and reimplementing policies to return to the worst forms
of Communism. One of these policies, announced last week, was to
forbid "girlie men" from the entertainment industry. Hahahaha
I can hardly wait to start to see articles from the NY Times saying
that "girlie men" will have to be canceled in America, in sympathy
with the Chinese Communist Party.
(09-06-2021, 03:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > The right-wing ultra-capitalist regimes of Pinochet's Chile,
> Franco's Spain, and the Greek colonels' regime were all
> plutocratic. Does the theocratic regime in Iran qualify as
> "socialist"? Hitler's "national" socialism turned industrial
> workers into serfs to the benefit of German tycoons. Hitler wanted
> the antithesis of Soviet-style "international" socialism as in the
> Soviet Union at the time. Hitler's "socialism" had no semblance of
> social justice. The Apartheid regime of South Africa was socialism
> for the white minority but dog-eat dog exploitation for everybody
> else (OK, the regime defined Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese as
> "white" if they were investors or administrators).
> To be Stalinism has much in common with fascism, but did the
> Bolsheviks more imitate fascists than the fascists imitated the
> Bolsheviks?
None of these words makes any sense at all. When I was in high
school, after the Army-McCarthy hearings, I discovered that the "z" in
Nazi stood for Socialism, and wondered if Naziism is the same as
Socialism. No, I was told. Naziism was not Socialism. It was
"National Socialism," which was a different thing. And liberal
teachers bent themselves into pretzels explaining the difference
between Socialism and National Socialism.
Is Fascism the same as Naziism? I used to think that the "s" in
Fascism also stood for Socialism, but apparently not, since the word
has an entirely different derivation. Nonetheless, after WW II,
Fascism and Naziism are thought to be similar, or at most that Fascism
is a watered down form of Naziism that keeps the trains running on
time.
Then there's the issue of Communism in China. Mao Zedong's Great Leap
Forward and Cultural Revolution killed tens of millions of innocent
Chinese needlessly, and destroyed and devastated China's economy for
decades, so much so that China still hasn't recovered. Mao Zedong
also completely destroyed the value of Communism, Socialism and
Marxism. So as soon as Mao died, Deng Xiaoping came to power and
implemented the "Opening up and reform" policies, which was a
rejection of Communism, Socialism and Marxism, in support of free
markets.
In the 1980s, another hard-core Communist, Le Duan, died. Truong
Chinh, a political enemy of Le Duan, came to power, and implemented
the Doi Moi market reforms which, once again were a rejection of
Communism, Socialism and Marxism, in support of free markets. This
was highly successful, and turned Vietnam from an economic basket case
to an economic powerhouse.
So China and Vietnam still call themselves "Communist," but they are
no longer communist. I would call them "Fascist."
However, China seems to be returning to the destructive policies of
Mao Zedong, and reimplementing policies to return to the worst forms
of Communism. One of these policies, announced last week, was to
forbid "girlie men" from the entertainment industry. Hahahaha
I can hardly wait to start to see articles from the NY Times saying
that "girlie men" will have to be canceled in America, in sympathy
with the Chinese Communist Party.
