Yeah, I’ve been hearing that for the last 40 years or so…
There probably are studies of pre Revolutionary France which give estimates for both the size of the elite and the actual wealth controlled by that elite.
It just so happens that in this country the elite is defined as “one percent”, and that elite receives around twenty percent of the income, and controls thirty percent of the assets.
In other societies, the inequality may result in a larger or smaller elite controlling a larger or smaller share of assets. This may be a prelude to revolution, or not really a source of concern. In the US, there is a myth of the large middle class, securely enjoying the fruits of a decent lifestyle-- work hard, and you can send your kids to college. Work hard, and you can enjoy the benefits of regular medical care. Work hard, and you’ll have enough in savings to repair your car when it breaks down, and take a vacation. Work Hard, and you will have leisure time. A myth, because some sizable fraction of the population works hard, at two or three jobs, and still manages just scraping by, where a broken transmission or a broken foot can mean absolute impoverishment.
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Such as hatred towards Roma, immigrants, and disabled folks?
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Funny, I never saw this article when liberals were calling Reagan and Bush Hitler
I came here to say pretty much that. It was around the time that I heard the phrase “Nazi communist” from a distant television (Glenn Beck, of course) that I knew we were going to have at least 4 years of knowing fuck all about history.
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You should read more about Stalin, then. The racket he and his gangsters were running makes the nazis look like bumbling amateurs.
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He was only following in the footsteps of that other infamous left-winger, Otto von Bismarck, who had done the same thing in Prussia decades before.
I am surprised nobody has pointed out that it is obviously projection. The Republicans are constantly accusing Democrats and Obama in particular of things they have done:
- They run a candidate for President who was born in Panama (McCain) they spend the next five years peddling crazy theories that Obama was really born in Kenya.
- They run a candidate for President whose military service during Vietnam was dubious, they peddle vicious lies about John Kerry, a genuine war hero.
- They want to steal our pensions and Medicare so that they can give the ultra-rich another huge tax cut, so they accuse Obama of trying to cut Medicare and Social security.
- They justify voter suppression tactics with bogus claims of voter fraud.
Of course they accuse Obama of being a NAZI because that is the political philosophy they admire. Perkins accuses Obama of doing what he would do in the same situation.
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Articles like this foster the illusion that Obama and the rich are somehow opposed to each other. In real life, he is rich and basically follows a rich agenda.
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Yeah, basically a lack of imagination or knowledge of history. So much for the idea that the 1% are especially smart or knowledgeable.
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When was the last time you rose up against your oppressor? When was the last time you tried to live in some other way than this corporatocracy prescribes for you? There has not been change because the average person is afraid to actually act out what they believe for fear of isolation.
And I am only 25 and I guess that means its my turn to try. If we stop trying just because it hasn’t worked before, we lose.
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Well Ernst Rohm (A homosexual labor leader) WAS part of the party until the executed them.
It appears so.
In the 2000s, David Horowitz was loudly denouncing anti-war activists and leftists as fascists, and complaining about the power of the left in the university. So, he published editorials calling for anti-war activists to be executed for treason (including two friends of mine he singled out by name), and set about organizing a network of conservative college students who would break up anti-war group meetings and harass academic leftists with death threats.
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Agree with @BPeasant. Although, admittedly there’s little value in ranking megalomaniacal dictators, nevertheless I don’t can’t see how Stalin is “an incompetent version of Hitler.” First, well, Stalin did defeat Hitler. As well as vastly expand his empire with nary a setback (until long after he was dead). He also successfully committed his vast, horrible misdeeds and did not suffer for them: competent, that. And in the present day, he’s even being historically rehabilitated by his current, somewhat gentler incarnation in the form of Putin. Also, what a head of hair!
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There’s been a push by the right to classify liberals as Nazi’s in general, and have been a few books about it
[/quote] Books, plural? Aside from self-published vanity efforts, Jonah Goldberg’s laughable attempt is the only one that’s risen above the noise.
And I think it’s not so much that liberals are Nazis, but that the Nazis were liberals. Because, as we all know, liberals are socialist/communists and fascist/Nazis. /s
I don’t understand how anyone can compare Obama (or George W. Bush) to Hitler (or Stalin, or Pol Pot). . . I mean, do people actually think about what that comparison means? Do you know what Hitler actually did, and does anything Obama has done come anywhere near close to it?
You may as well compare Obama with Hulk Hogan or Lenny Bruce or Bigfoot.
“When was the last time I rose up against my oppressor”?
You’re pretending to know me. It’s pretentious.
Want to change the world? Cool, try not to mess with nature too much
Want to change other people? Good luck with that, it’s not happening
Want to change yourself? Of the three, that’s the one that is actually possible.
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I have no problem interpreting NSDAP as being socialist as much of their policies regarding cooperation with large corporations, social wellfare etc were the same as implemented by the socialist party in Sweden in the 1940:s and 1950:s. They were however less violent, undesirable people were sterilized by the thousands, not sent to death camps and they did not murder the political opposition. As my society is a consensus society I can not put all of the blame om the socialists, it were widely interpreted as the rational things to do. And they did of course hate the nazis, everybody exept the dumb did that after stalingrad…
There´s always the option of killing other people if you can´t make them change.
