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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: ignorant_ape
There is NO ideology on the face of the world, which has come as close to dominating the entire world, as Nazism did.
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That is a threat like unto NO other threat which the human race has ever faced, a threat whose very purpose was "purifying" the species by way of calculated, deliberate and utterly inhuman levels of barbaric, brutal murder, on an industrial scale.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: EvillerBob
If YOU can think of a better way to mitigate a threat which cannot be reasoned with, does not accept fact, prefers its own propaganda to the realities which defy that propaganda, then have the hell at it. Get your finger out in fact, because this work needs doing.
originally posted by: 4N0M4LY
Only in germany can a german be labled a nazi for taking a stand against the migrant infestation destroying their way of life and their leaders actively aggrivating the issue. By golly its a genius way to squash any dissent from german citizens when you can label them nazis. Makes things easier
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: EvillerBob
Communism killed more like forty to fifty million of those people you are talking about, at most. Famine killed the rest.
If you read the definition of Fascism, it sounds like they are describing Socialism.
My opinion is that Facsism isn't really a political ideology, it was an ideological movement of the early 20th century and has literally no bearing on modern politics, other than as a boogy man.
I resent it being classed as "far-right". Can anyone provide any other examples of "far-right" ideology so that I can compare and contrast?
The reason Facism was and always has been classed as "far-right" was because it was so opposed to the "far-left". There isn't a whole lot of difference between the methods of control of "far-left" collectivism and Fascism.
It would seem to me that there should be a gradual decline towards racist attitudes if the "far-right" is defined as being racist at it's core. In reality, racism tends to exist in all extremist cultures and ideologies, both "left" and "right".
The way I see the left-right dichotomy is collectivism - individualism.
The only "far-right" ideology I can truthfully describe as being ideologically "far-right" is the good ol' US of A Republic after gaining independence and decentralising government and handing far more power into the hands of the people, rather than in the hands of government.
If you go much further to the right, you end up with an Anarchy, but I'm not an anarchist as I believe there will always be a need for a government of some description. Yes, there will always be someone to build roads, but would you like to cross 30 private roads to get from one end of your town to the other, or is it better to have a central body that we all fund together to oversee the creation of things that everyone needs and noone wants to have to pay for with every use
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: EvillerBob
Communism killed more like forty to fifty million of those people you are talking about, at most. Famine killed the rest. Furthermore, Communism did not have gas chambers, did not build infrastructure for the sole and dedicated purpose of industrial scale slaughter of people. Also, it is worth pointing out, that Hitler had only from 1933 to 1945 to work his particular murder machine. That is twelve years.
Communism killed more people, because it was around for far longer. If Hitler and Nazism had ruled for as long as hardcore Communism did in Russia and China, for example, his tally would have been much larger, because his methods killed in larger numbers per incident, much, MUCH faster. If he had been left to his own devices, the worlds population would have been reduced by a great deal more than 3% during WW2.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: EvillerBob
While the actions of people like Stalin and Mao should be called out for what they are, atrocities of the highest level, they are also not endemic of Communism as a philosophy. Nowhere in the Communist Manifesto does it state that leaders should execute millions of citizens.
On the other hand, Nazism is founded on the concept of racial superiority.
Under ideal conditions Communism is arguably the greatest form of government. Under ideal conditions Nazism still leads to genocide.
That's why a resurgence of Nazism should be considered a bigger threat. Benevolent Communism can exist. Benevolent Nazism cannot.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: jafo1973
Pro-Nazis in any military force should be executed immediately, shot on sight, no trial, no nothing. Even the slightest TWINGE of far right about a person, ought to bar them from ever being permitted to piss unsupervised, leave alone carry a gun as a profession.
There is only one organisation, idealism, one notion that has ever been enough of a threat to warrant such a violent intolerance, and that is the Nazi ideal, the far right. It must be crushed wherever it can be found. Obliterated, stamped on, the very concept and its every adherent eviscerated and brutalised until it either ceases to exist, or the thought of voicing, or acting upon any far right thinking, becomes more terrifying than whatever phobia that thinking issues from in the first place.
It is the only thing on Earth which cannot be tolerated, especially by reasonable people.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
I am all for nuance, a great fan of contrast. But there is one matter in this world which can afford no grey areas, one matter upon which there is no fence, there is only a choice, whether to support or destroy Nazism.