This explains why the far left lies about collectivist fascism and National Socialism being “far-right”
Finally, a key reference debunks the absurd lie that liberty and limited government would be tied to totalitarianism.
We’re presenting a gem of knowledge from a writer that we found in our research on the Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party (Yes, we’re going to get back on that horse soon enough). While it is of a little bit of a dry and academic nature - being an academic paper after all - and while we may disagree in his terminology that may tend to confuse the issue. We enthusiastically encourage you to read the full text of the paper, download the PDF, share, and write about it if you can.
From the Journal of Libertarian Studies:
This is the same paper from Research Gate:
How and Why Fascism and Nazism Became the "Right": XXX-XXX Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License
As we stated, it’s well worth the download. We shouldn’t need to say that it’s probably worth printing out and putting away in a safe space.
It starts by answering the basic question of how and why collectivist fascism and National Socialism (Nazism) somehow became known as belonging on the “right,” but it gets even better than that. It obliterates most of the far left’s “arguments” on the subject (if you can dignify stating something is a fact while utterly failing to prove it, an argument).
You might even want to share it with some of our collectivist comrades of the fascist far-left. You never know, they might learn something, they certainly aren’t getting any proper information from the national socialist media. They might even see the wisdom of the pro-freedom right, once they realize that they are currently on the side of history with Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Mussolini, and Lenin.
Leftists should be forewarned: If they read this reference work, they’ll no longer have any excuses. While they used to smugly think that they are the side of - insert whatever the far left holds as its dear belief - they should know they are really on the side of authoritarianism, mendacity, and mass murder.
Have you ever wondered:
How the far left can make the absurd claim that the side favoring liberty and limited government would be on the same side as a group of authoritarian collectivists with an opposite viewpoint?
Why do they keep lecturing the rest of us on the subject, repeating the same lies over and over, hoping they will become the truth?
Why do they put so much effort into pushing this bizarre belief of theirs and become incandescent when anyone dares challenge their illogical lies or even mentions the phrase National Socialism?
Why they are very selective in how they defend their illogical lies?
The paper is an excellent starting point in explaining all of this. In essence, the paper’s thesis is that because they can gain so much power and wealth, collectivists will always compete with each other in controlling and enslaving people. Arguing over which one of their wonderous ‘theories’ will create a “Heaven on Earth.”
Some proclaim they are the penultimate leftists while repressing, exiling, or executing everyone else of similar collectivist ideologies as “far-right.”
Unfortunately for the fascist far left, this obliterates whole swaths of cherished leftist gaslighting that have been lovingly built up by the national socialist media over the past century.
The problem for them is that it illustrates occasions in the history of the cruelty that is the far left that they have competed amongst themselves in controlling and enslaving the people. This explains why one faction of the far left will brand another far-left faction as “far-right” for purely propaganda purposes.
It also shows why certain types of leftists will fight and persecute other types of leftists. Thus, obliterating the lie that National Socialists couldn’t be leftists because they persecuted fellow leftists, destroying the ‘Tod dem Marxismus’ [Death to Marxism] and “First they came for..." talking points.
We’ll give you two prime examples of this that show this is a big lie from the far left that can be sourced to the beginning of the last century, well over 100 years. The documentation shows that it comes from multiple sources. It should go without saying this took place well before WWII and other events.
Our first example cites Vladimir Lenin:
Meanwhile, the Marxist flag was raised by the revolutionaries in the Russian Empire. Right away, Vladimir Lenin declared that the Marxist movement was undergoing “revisionism from the right,” and thus explicitly pushed reformists to the right wing of the Left. He accused them of the most awful wickedness—betrayal of the proletariats’ primary interests by seeking cooperation with the bourgeoisie within the walls of parliaments. Lenin notably labeled reformists proponents of the petty bourgeoisie (Lenin, V. I. 1973a. “Marxism and Revisionism.” In Lenin’s Collected Works, vol. 15, 29–39. Moscow: Progress Publishers.)
The next example cites the Bolshevik Revolution of October 25, 1917, the Entente intervention in October 1922, over 100 years ago, and the rift between the ‘social chauvinists’ and Bolsheviks:
Thus, the Bolsheviks actively strengthened the far-left flank of socialists and led an offensive against more numerous socialist factions. The Bolsheviks’ propaganda firmly established Marxism-Leninism as a valid and indisputable continuation of Marx’s theory. They proudly occupied the far left wing of the political spectrum, shifting all others to the right.
Even worse, these leftists that were shifted to the right were repressed, exiled, or executed:
The Bolsheviks intended to rule alone and did not hesitate to eliminate all other parties and factions that did not share their perspective. Thus, the representatives of other leftist parties and party groups—Mensheviks, Constitutional Democrats (Kadets), Socialist Revolutionaries (SR), anarchists— were repressed, exiled, or executed in the course of the Bolsheviks’ power grab.
So much for the “Nazis went after Communists, so they couldn’t possibly be leftists lie.”
We previously asked those questions to make a point. Leftists keep on pushing what is a 100-year-old lie because one of the points raised in the paper:
Nevertheless, in modern political science, Fascists and National Socialists are considered the Far Right. The Left is working hard to keep this myth alive. Exposing this would lead Western left-wing intellectuals into a state of acute cognitive dissonance. They would find that leftist ideology continuously breeds existential evil, which is not alien to the large-scale genocide of the dissident population. Thus, they prefer to completely deny the fact that fascism and Nazism were left-wing phenomena.
Their belief system doesn’t make sense, but they can’t let themselves realize they are on the mass murder side of history. Their big lie helps them pretend that somehow others are ‘guilty’ as well.
They also must be very selective in how they defend their big lie, but we’ll have to talk about that some other time.
You: “It obliterates most of the far left’s “arguments” on the subject (if you can dignify stating something is a fact while utterly failing to prove it, an argument).”
Which arguments of the Left on the subject are NOT obliterated?
The citizens of the US are brainwashed into thinking on a scale of left to right. That’s what big government wants because division gives them power. The left and right have changed over time. For example the left used to be for freedom of speech and anti-war. Today they are not.
The more accurate scale to use is statist vs non-statist. Think of a scale from dictatorship to communism to socialism then on to democracy to republicanism to libertarianism to anarchism capitalism. Think centralization to total individual freedom. We have moves slowly toward more freedom over time but are going backwards right now.
The only solution to our problems is to shrink the state drastically. Until we do, nothing will change. It may take a major depression to change the system. The elections are now corrupted and will fail the people until we have a major economic crisis.