Ain’t That Special?
It is no small irony that protesting Wisconsin teachers are sporting placards likening Gov. Walker to Adolf Hitler. Ironic, I say, because Hitler proclaimed, “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
It is tragically amusing that Wisconsin teachers indoctrinate their students with the errant notion that Nazis were “right-wing fascists,” likening them to Tea Party conservatives who oppose Obama and his Leftist cadres.
Of course, any honest telling of history must note that the German party led by Adolf Hitler was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), which evolved into the Nazi (Nationalsozialisten – National Socialists) Party. (This would explain why the second volume of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is entitled “The National Socialist Movement.”)
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Reich Minister of Propaganda, wrote that Nazi ideology incorporated Nationalism and Socialism in order to distinguish “the Internationalism of Marxism with the nationalism of German Socialism.” The rest is a very bloody history, and one subject to recurrence.
No matter whether it is Marxist Socialism, Nationalist Socialism or the most recent incarnation of this beast, Democratic Socialism, the terminus of Socialism has been, and will always be, tyranny.
