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..or the onset of Alzheimer's, but bugger me if I am able to make out just what you're saying here...

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by Alexander G Rubio (alexander.rubio@gmail.com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 08:09:06 PM EST
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oh, just the usual ahistorical "the Nazi party's unabbreviated name had the word Sozialist in it, therefore Socialism=Nazism=Eeeeeevil" mantra.  never mind the feral facts... that the Nazis in fact destroyed communist and socialist parties, magazines, libraries, and newsletters, busted unions, etc.;  that much of the heroic underground resistance in France, Italy, and even w/in Germany was undertaken by communist groups;  or that no small number of those resistance cells were subsequently betrayed to the Nazis/Fascists just before the Allied victory... by the Allies, who were already working on the "containing Communism" strategy.  I suppose the fact that one of the words in the unabbreviated name of the DNC is "Democratic" means that they actually represent democracy?  :-)

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 09:13:11 PM EST
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...in what way Nazism was a orgy of individualism run amok.

Because I don't see how a movement that based its legitimacy on being an ultranationalist version of communism was anything but a form of socialism gone mad.

Sometimes, even in Europe, the working class falls in behind the wrong party.

Must be a human thing, and last I checked, the same species of hominid resides on both sides of the Atlantic.

Have Keyboard. Will Travel. :)

by cskendrick (cs ke nd ri c k @h ot m ail dot c om) on Sat Apr 29th, 2006 at 01:56:35 AM EST
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