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 | | From: | MMET572 | | Subject: | Re: Stop the totalitarian Pledge of Allegiance | | Date: | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:25:38 -0500 |
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"rexitis" wrote in message
news:40817045$1_1@corp.newsgroups.com...
> Few students or teachers know that the pledge was written in 1892 by a
> self-proclaimed socialist in the U.S. nationalist movement, to promote
> socialism.
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> Few people know that the original salute to the flag was like the Nazi
> salute and that "Nazi" means "National Socialist German Workers' Party."
> (Eye-popping photos are only at http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html )
> An
> easy mnemonic device to remember that Nazis were socialists and that
> "Nazi"
> means "National Socialist German Workers' Party" is that the horrid
> swastika
> resembles overlapping "S" shapes for "socialism," and that the Nazis often
> used stylized "S" symbolism. (See
> http://members.ij.net/rex/swastikanews.html )
>
The Nazis were "socialist" in the same way that the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea is "democratic", or the Liberal Democratic Party in Russia
is either.
Item: Socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of
production, or at least a nod in that direction. Nazis were not only
actively bankroleld by industrialists, they encouraged the centralisation of
ownership of production in the hands of private capitalist individuals.
Hitler's other policies likewise place him squarely in the right wing
conservative/reactionary/radical tradition.
Item: Socialist internationals all a least paid lip service to racial
tolerance and inclusion in pursuit of the inetrantional triumph of the
worker. Hitler advocated racism over racial tolerance,
Item: Hitler championed eugenics over freedom of reproduction, particularly
for "the lower orders".
Item: Hitler backed a spurious and race based meritocracy over genuine
equality which would have been the socialist position.
Item: Hitler first came to prominence as a reaction to the ascendency of teh
Munich commune socialists. His band of street thgugs were bankrolled by
aristocrats in Bavaria nervous over the implications of what was happening
in Munich.
*Item: The socialist tradition had always been internationalism over
nationalism. Hitler's nationalist and racist , economic, military and
domestic policies were diametrically opposed to the socialist agenda.
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the
liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity
and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound
together by the bond of its common blood."
-Adolf Hitler, quoted in 'Hitler, A Study in Tyranny', by Alan Bullock
(Harper Collins, NY)
DFooK
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