The American Left’s Fascination With the Terms “Fascist” and “Nazi”…

… When Describing Anyone on the American Right Even Though the Terms Better Describe Themselves – A Historical Look at Political Terminology & Ideology.

It never ceases to amaze me about how insanely ignorant commenters from the left are when they throw the “N” bomb or the “F” bomb around in reference to those of us on the right side of the political sphere. I’m not referring to the “N” bomb as a derogatory term used in reference to African-Americans or the “F” bomb as the offensive word prominent in the American lexicon that some use as a Smurf would use the word “smurf”. Rather the American Leftists use of the terms Nazi (the “N” bomb) and Fascist (the “F” bomb) when referencing any of us on the Right.

I credit the left’s ignorance of the terms to the failure of a public school education perpetuated by a myth that Nazis and Fascists were from the right side of their respective national political spheres. In fact, the opposite is actually true.

The left’s fascination with using the terms have nothing to do with the actual ideologies involved. Their motivation for using the terms is to scare the apolitical among the populous into not associating themselves with true right-wing thought.

When discussing the differences between the two political ideologies, it is important that we understand where the terms “right-wing” and “left-wing” originate.

The phrase “right-wing” comes from the seating arrangement of parliamentary partisans during the French Revolution. The monarchists who supported the Ancien Régime were commonly referred to as rightists because they sat on the right side of successive legislative assemblies. SOURCE

Just as those loyal to the monarchy during the French Revolution were seated on the right side of the assembly, today Republicans in the US House and Senate are seated – guess where- on the right side of their respective chambers.

In the 20th century, outside the United States, where capitalism was always supported by the vast majority of politicians and intellectuals, the most notable distinction between left and right was in economic policy. The right defended capitalism, whereas the left advocated socialism (often democratic socialism) or communism. SOURCE

In the United States, the right is a term associated with Conservatives and to a lesser degree the Republican Party (GOP). The left is a term associated with Liberalism and to an accurate degree the Democrat Party because the prominent political ideology within the DNC is liberalism.

As for the terms “Fascist” or “Nazi” as thrown by leftist bomb throwers such as the moron who sent my friend Jay from Stop the ACLU via email…

From: Dr. Erasmus Doorjammer drerasmusdoorjammer@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Subject: unless your braindead listen up
To: jay@stoptheaclu.com

it seems that anti american facist nazi loving scum like you seem to thrive on your ignorance and inbreeding .We the true patriots of this country Have spoken .WE ELECTED A REAL MAN TO OFFICE NOT SOME FACIST AS YOU ALL SEEM TO LIKE TO VOTE FOR. IF YOU WANT CIVIL WAR BRING IT ON ,WE ARE READY , IF YOU WANT FIGHTS IN THE STREET ,BRING IT ON, WE ARE READY, WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE FACIST NAZI SCUMBAGS LIKE YOURSELF, WHO HATE AMERICA ,FLY THE CONFEDERATE FLAG ( I JUST WIPED MY ASS ON THAT FLAG YOU SOUTHERN IDIOTS) AND SUPPORT THE FACIST RIGHT WING SCOTUS JUDGES ,THEY ARE DOOMED, WE WILL FIGHT WE WILL GET LOUD AND WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND STEP ON ANTI AMERICAN FACIST BOOTHEEL LICKING NAZI SCUM LIKE YOU, NOW PACK YOUR BAGS AND GET THE F OUT OF COUNTRY BEFORE WE KICK YOU OUT

This individual obviously has no idea what “Nazis” or “Fascists” stood for or he/she could not possibly believe the crap that they spew. I won’t get into their lack of punctuation, sentence structure, or any other indications of a lack of education. Mine isn’t great, but that email is appalling.

We’ll begin with “Fascism” -

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism. SOURCE

I’m sorry, but I don’t recall anyone that I associate with politically EVER advocating the principles outlined in the above paragraph. But, in order to give “Dr. Erasmus Doorjammer” the benefit of doubt until we fully explore what “Fascism” truly is, I’ll continue with the definition of the term and ideology.

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions. SOUCE

Hmmm. Seems that these principles are being advocated by a certain elected official and a certain political Party within the United States right now. I’m sorry – but… Ah yes. That would be President Barry O and his fellow Democrats. NOT as “Dr. Erasmus Doorjammer” from the email would suggest, Republicans or Conservatives.

If a formal architect of fascism can be identified, it is Benito Mussolini, the onetime Marxist editor who, caught up in nationalist fervor, broke with the left as World War I approached and became Italy’s leader in 1922. Mussolini distinguished fascism from liberal capitalism in his 1928 autobiography:

“The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for them the duties they have to fulfill.”

Before his foray into imperialism in 1935, Mussolini was often praised by prominent Americans and Britons, including Winston Churchill, for his economic program.

Similarly, Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said:

“The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.”

Both nations exhibited elaborate planning schemes for their economies in order to carry out the state’s objectives. Mussolini’s corporate state “consider[ed] private initiative in production the most effective instrument to protect national interests”. But the meaning of “initiative” differed significantly from its meaning in a market economy. Labor and management were organized into twenty-two industry and trade “corporations,” each with Fascist Party members as senior participants. The corporations were consolidated into a National Council of Corporations; however, the real decisions were made by state agencies such as the Instituto per la Ricosstruzione Industriale, which held shares in industrial, agricultural, and real estate enterprises, and the Instituto Mobiliare, which controlled the nation’s credit.

Hitler’s regime eliminated small corporations and made membership in cartels mandatory. The Reich Economic Chamber was at the top of a complicated bureaucracy comprising nearly two hundred organizations organized along industry, commercial, and craft lines, as well as several national councils. The Labor Front, an extension of the Nazi Party, directed all labor matters, including wages and assignment of workers to particular jobs. Labor conscription was inaugurated in 1938. Two years earlier, Hitler had imposed a four-year plan to shift the nation’s economy to a war footing. In Europe during this era, Spain, Portugal, and Greece also instituted fascist economies.

In the United States, beginning in 1933, the constellation of government interventions known as the New Deal had features suggestive of the corporate state. The National Industrial Recovery Act created code authorities and codes of practice that governed all aspects of manufacturing and commerce. The National Labor Relations Act made the federal government the final arbiter in labor issues. The Agricultural Adjustment Act introduced central planning to farming. The object was to reduce competition and output in order to keep prices and incomes of particular groups from falling during the Great Depression.

It is a matter of controversy whether President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was directly influenced by fascist economic policies. Mussolini praised the New Deal as “boldly . . . interventionist in the field of economics,” and Roosevelt complimented Mussolini for his “honest purpose of restoring Italy” and acknowledged that he kept “in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.” Also, Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, was known to carry a copy of Raffaello Viglione’s pro-Mussolini book, The Corporate State, with him, presented a copy to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and, on retirement, paid tribute to the Italian dictator. SOURCE - emphasis mine

So it seems that the term “Fascists” clearly does not apply to anyone on the American Right. In actuality, it better describes a revered American liberal Democrat in what he did and planned to do. Let us not forget that Roosevelt attempted to consolidate additional power in his attempt to stack the Supreme Court with additional members appointed by himself of course that would grant him more power. This is something being advocated by liberals now.

As for the term Nazi – let us not lose sight of the fact that Nazis were members of the German National Socialist Party. The only thing that the modern liberal can use as justification for calling those of us on the right who oppose their socialist goals is that Hitler and his Nazi Party opposed full out Soviet Communism. So, by calling us Nazis for opposing your socialist goals for this country, is that in a sense an admission of guilt? Are you trying to install Soviet style Communism right here in the US? We’ve long suspected it anyway so you may as well admit it without the inaccurate name calling.

Obama is attempting to control industry now. He wants to trade the government’s preferred stock that it acquired as a result of the bailouts to common stock giving the government voting power and in a sense control of private companies. And the ability to put pro-Obama individuals in positions of control in those companies. Be careful of politicians who nationalize.

And don’t even get me started on the “Yes We Can” chants. Seems awful similar to “Zeig Heil” to me.

UPDATE -

Nazi Reference – The 25 Points of Hitler’s Nazi Party

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