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Not that much. There's a bit of mythology about this. First is the "they built the autobahns" thing. The autobahns were actually already under construction when the Nazis came to power (not that building infrastructure is in any way necessarily "socialist"). Then there's the idea that they ended unemployment which they sort of did but only by a simple conjuring trick.
No one said anything about the autobahns. The works programs certainly did help end unemployment. Government spending tends to lower unemployment during depressions. It's not socialism but to say unemployment wasn't a policy focus of the Nazis is incorrect. They implemented their own programs on top of the Weimar programs.
They expanded the German military from its restriction to 100,000 (Versailles Treaty) to five million which just happened to have been more or less the number of unemployed when they took power. They also destroyed the trade union movement and drastically reduced wages so that in 1938 Germans were still consuming less calories per person than they had been in 1928.
The German military didn't have 5 million in its ranks at the outbreak of the war, let alone when they reached full employment in 1937 or whenever it was.

In any case the military was expanded to create a greater Germany for the German people, or at least those they considered worthy. The Nazis were prepared to starve 30 million people in eastern Europe to build a utopia for the them.

German diets are neither here nor there. Do you think your average citizen of the USSR had a better diet than your average Australian?

Destroying the trade unions wasn't anti-socialist, he merely dragged them into the state apparatus. It's funny that you mention them though. They were heavily involved in the establishment of Volkswagen to provide German workers with an affordable car.

The economic "recovery" benefitted the employers and the middle class but was built on the immiseration of the working class, achieved with the aid of terror. So what does it mean in the light of this to say they were "collectivist"?
Collectivist means that individual rights are secondary to the state. The working class were in a better position in 1938 than in 1933.

Socialism regularly uses terror. Where have you been?
Nazi ideology is collectivist in the sense that it argues for the subsuming of individuals to the state, but that's not "socialist" any more than the collectivist ideology of (to bring up another random example)
So the USSR wasn't "kind of socialist"?
Catholicism is. Having a shitty social program is not socialist either - unless you think Bismark, the inventor of the old age pension, was socialist.
Bismark acknowledged his social programs were state socialism.
Finally, I never said they were a "hands off government", just that government intervention in the economy, something that was the a characteristic of the allies during WW2 as well, is not socialism. I would call it state capitalism. Though, again, the extent of this in Germany has been exaggerated - they never nationalised any of the main German corporations for instance.
Bringing up wartime governments is weird. It's a red herring. The US government was heavily involved in arming the allies in WWII, I certainly wouldn't call the US government socialist.

Hitler and the Nazis were anti-capitalist. Capitalism is a liberal philosophy. You're thinking of corporatism.

As Maliface said earlier, radical collectivists are a menace.
 
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This probably deserves it's own thread given these groups are getting more and more open about their real views.

These groups are forming and breaking up, under names like The Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance. They've tried to put themselves forwards as basically conservative, "Australian values" groups but not neo-Nazis.

But, they are. They always have been. Now they're waving the flags openly.
I blame the hard left for the rise of this s**t
 

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People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups that slowly introduce nazi and hard right propaganda to them.

Notice i said the HARD left. Some of the completely unreasonable s**t they are coming out with these days is insane.

So the hard right start them off slowly with what seems like sensible talking points in comparison and then it goes from there.
 
People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups
How so? Why aren't those "reasonable people" being pushed into the arms of the Greens or Labor? Why is it neo-Nazism that they turn to and not environmentalism or labourism or anarchism?
 
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People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups that slowly introduce nazi and hard right propaganda to them.

Notice i said the HARD left. Some of the completely unreasonable s**t they are coming out with these days is insane.

So the hard right start them off slowly with what seems like sensible talking points in comparison and then it goes from there.

Are HARD lefts in the room with us right now?
 
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How so? Why aren't those "reasonable people" being pushed into the arms of the Greens or Labor? Why is it neo-Nazism that they turn to and not environmentalism or labourism or anarchism?

They don't start them out on neo Nazism. They start them out on more reasonable positions. Look, laugh all you want but how else do you explain the rise of this s**t?
 

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Are HARD lefts in the room with us right now?





Here you go. I'm a staunch centrist. But if you have a normal conservative person, and they hear crazy stuff on the hard left, then try to enter a discussion and get ridiculed and mocked, they then attempt discourse with people who will welcome them with open arms. The brainwashing will then go much more smoothly.

It's an idealogical arms race
 
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Here you go. I'm a staunch centrist. But if you have a normal conservative person, and they hear crazy stuff on the hard left, then try to enter a discussion and get ridiculed and mocked, they then attempt discourse with people who will welcome them with open arms. The brainwashing will then go much more smoothly.

It's an idealogical arms race

hahaha a normal conservative. Let me know when you find one.
 

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