National socialism is just fascism .. it has ZERO to do with socialism as in the Nordic countries or my country Canada..
LOL ! Yeah. Right. Keep telling yourself that...
Communism, socialism, national socialism/fascism... are just different shoots from the same root... as I am saying is also true of capitalism...
They are not "the same thing" but have a shared root, are more "the same thing" than they are "different"...
They each proceed from the same basic (and incorrect) assumptions about the relationship between people, money and power... and what is "natural" to expect of each of them...
Of course, Germany's NAZI's have given National Socialism a bad name... its a tough brand to sell... as people, quite properly, [and as is true still today in current context where it is, in result, simply mislabeled as it is imposed] equate it with racism [Black Lives Matter/Critical Race Theory] and genocide [Planned Parenthood/Covid 19/Georgia Guidestones]... flagrant militarism [rampant in China/coming soon in U.S./Japan now coming along] and wrongly crossing borders to attack neighbors [Russia] and take ownership of them...
Fascism is... "socialism" that is welded to "capital in private ownership, with state control"
Fascism is... "for the greater good"...
Fascism is... "public-private partnership"... Fascism is... "forced group think"...
And, if you go along with all of that as intended... you'll get your militarism and genocide in due course...
Whatever mask applied to enable it... once it succeeds... the rest comes along as, it's a feature, not a bug.
So, I'm not addressing the reality today "tongue in cheek" when considering the conflicts emerging now... or the "real" situation... rather than the branding and labels applied to dissimulate...
Set up a competition between competing "brands" who are all national socialist states... and the only question that is relevant is... who can out militarize and/or out genocide the other... and what, if any, rational limits should you expect are going to matter in future conflicts ?
It's not true that there's no alternative to their Brand A or Brand B... |