“Just because they had socialist in their name” That’s the whole of it, her entire argument, verbatim. I honestly don’t know what to do with her. The sad part is she only became political in 2016, and since then has turned into a filthy commie. I guess I need to thank her because my journey to unravel her false reality led me here.
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The nazis took over the workers party because they wanted to overcome the threat of the communist.
From page 325 of "tradgedy and hope" Carroll Quigley
The nazi system was dictatorial capitalism—that is, a society organized so that everything was subject to the benefit of capitalism; everything, that is, compatible with two limiting factors: (a) that the nazi party, which was not capitalist, was in control of the state, and (b) that war, which is not capitalist, could force curtailment of capitalisy benefits (in the short run at least). In this judgment we must define our terms accurately. We define capitalism as "a system of economics in which production is based on profit for those who control the capital." In this definition one point must be noted: the expression "for those who control the capital" does not necessarily mean the owners. In modern economic conditions large-scale enterprise with widely dispersed stockownership has made management more important than ownership. Accordingly, profits are not the same as dividens, and, in fact, dividends become objectionable to management, since they take profit out of its control.
The traditional capitalist system was a profit system. In its pursuit of profits it was not primarily concerned with production, consumption, prosperity, high employment, national welfare, or anything else. As a result, its concentration on profits eventually served to injure profits. This development got the whole of society into such a mess that enemies of the profit system began to rise up on all sides. Fascism was the counterattack of the profit system against these enemies. The counter attack was conducted in auch a violent fashion that the whole appearance of society was changed, although, in the short run, the real structure was not greatly modified. In the long run fascism threatened even the profit system, because the defenders of that system, businessmen rather than politicians, turned over over control of the state to a party of gangsters and lunatics who in the long run might turn to attack businessmen themselves.
In the short run the nazi movement achieved the aim of its creators. In order to secure profits it sought to avert six possible dangers to the profit system. These dangers were (1) from the state itself; (2) from organized labor; (3) from competition; (4) from depression; (5) from business losses; and (6) from alternative forms of economic production organized on nonprofit bases. These six all merged into one great danger, the danger from any social system in which production was organized on any basis other than profit. The fear of the owners and management of the profit system for any system organized on any other basis became almost psychopathic.
To me this is a whole bunch of circular logic.
I appreciate the effort and the adherence to the definition which I find accurate. What I think needs mentioning is that in order to create such guardrails for society an absolute totalitarian and brutal society is necessary and inevitably created which goes against natural law. Human nature of commerce is both free and voluntary, from which the real danger of multi-generational monopolies manifest. So to me these things will always go in cycles of abundance followed by brutality, until we diminish our hubris and stop trying to control human nature. The failures of capitalism are actually the failures of morality. The failures of every other type of economic society is not the failure to control human nature, but attempting to do so in the first place.
Earlier in the chapter Quigley tries to explain that nazi Germany is not totalitarian. Like i said in my reply to my own comment. Its complete circular logic. Goes to show why Quigley is bill Clintons mentor.
Plus i just finished reading that section of the chapter so i figured i would share it.