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Old Jun 21, 2004, 05:28 pm   #13 (permalink) (top)
G. Adams
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Havn't we been through this point before? National Socialism is "social" but is not a branch or connected with socialism. Socialism espouses international worker solidarity, advance through co-operation not conflict, equality of value and oppurtunity. Socialism is an overarching term to cover many idealogies, just as Conservatism houses many threads within it. Communism is one, that aims to achieve a utopia based upon said values by initial centralisation following revolution (either peaceful or violent) until a time when it is possible to transfer power to the people. The problem as always is that if you concentrate power in a single person or body, it will not give it up easily.

In opposition to these values, National Socialism espouses the leader principle, cult of personality, will and emotion over logic and rationality, supremacy of the state and more. These are in opposition to any socialist principles. However it would be wrong to claim National Socialism as capitalist as well. The only real value in National Socialism is the will to power, the will to do anything and everything to accumulate power. And as such, National Socialists will appeal to capitalists (we'll crush the communists!) or the workers (look at the imagery of the noble peasent in Nazi Germany, not to mention the promise of jobs) depending on who will serve them best.

And all anarchism means is the supremacy of the individual in all ways, which in effect means no government. Anarchists split on how we would be able to function in such a society, into left and right wing anarchists. Left-wing anarchists imagine creating the socialist utopia but without a government or vanguard party guiding them, but with people organising themselves in human scale communities. Right-wing anarchists (although this has subgroups of it's own) argue that people don't need even this level of organisation, and the only relationship between people neccesary is trade and sex.

See, it's easy now isn't it? Stop trying to link one ideology to another in order to dirty it's principles. It just confuses people, as the continued belief that Nazism has anything to do with Socialism proves. Especially when people eventually find the glaring flaws, such as the term National Socialism being an oxymoron shows.


Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
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