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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:37:28 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Organization: Institute of Computer Science, Jagellonian University Cracow
- Subject: Re: A renewal of my argument about "rightism" ...
- Comments: To: POLITICS@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9301182117.AB28032@infoserv.ii.uj.edu.pl>; from "VALENTINE M.
- SMITH" at Jan 18, 93 10:31 am
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- VALENTINE M. SMITH pisze:
-
- ++ "Right" means "conservative" or "reactionary."
-
- ++ "conservative." "Tending to oppose change; favoring
- ++ traditional views and values." (Same source.)
-
- Caius:
- >> >Thank you. I basically agree with these definitions. I see now they
- >> >have similar meaning all over the world.
-
- Valentine:
-
- >> I basically agree with the above, but NOT the sentence that follows.
-
- Caius:
- >> >Nazism (national-socialist) is not conservative, and not reactionary.
- >> >So it cannot be rightist. Can't you see it?
-
- Valentine:
- >> Nazism wanted very much to "favor
- >> tradional views and values" - a strong central state ala the Second
- >> Reich of Bismark, protection and alliance with the established
- >> classes of property (the army, the Junkers, businesses like Krupp and
- >> IG Farben), and restablishment of the might of Germany as a "great
- >> power" as it had been prior to the "stab in the back" of 1918 by the
- >> Socialists and Communists, as represented by Ebert.
-
- Well, it's not true. The first National-Socialist Party was established in
- Bohemia in 1908. The program was typical socialist: "democratic" control
- on banks and haeavy industries, anti-aristocratic, anti-military, anti-church,
- and anti-semitic.
-
- It was at the time The Bismarck Empire was in its 'golden years.'
-
- Later the movement was expanded to Austria. They printed national-socialist
- literature with a hakenkreuz on it, long before Hitler was released from the
- army. The Parties were not very popular, but there are always some lunatics
- who believe in better world.
-
- It was much similar to the International Socialism. Instead of dictatorship of
- "working class" of the whole world it offered dictatorship of the "working
- class" with some special racial characteristic.
-
- The ideology didn't changed significantly when implemented in Germany, after
- 1933.
-
-
- First the army.
- The traditional military staff was considered unreliable and constantly
- replaced by experienced party officials, usually when the generals refused to
- support Hitlers's rowdy plans.
-
- Hitler planned to abandon the old, traditionally organized army and replace it
- by the special Party military units. The formation of them was very slow,
- despite of astronomical funds invested. The results were not satisfactory: all
- NSDAP military inits in Polish-German war in September 1939 were destroyed
- or took heavy casualties.
-
- Second the big business.
- So called "owners" were in fact only administrators of the enterprises
- producing for the prosperity of the State and the armament.
- They have to run the business according to the central plan, or be replaced.
-
- It's interesting to note that total production of ammunition in the period
- 1933-45 never exceded that of 1918, when the factories were really private.
-
-
- >> My day-to-day
- >> dictionary says reactionary = "opposing progress or liberalism."
- >> (American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College edition) I contend that
- >> that Nazism fiercely opposed "liberalism."
-
- Do you suggest that Nazis opposed progress? I think they were implementing
- their own design of the new world order (symtomatic progressist behaviour)
-
- Liberalism has several meanings: classical(laissez-faire) and contemporary
- (socialist). Does your dictionary explain which one the reactionaries
- oppose?
-
- >> The Nazis suppressed the
- >> Communists, they suppressed and destroyed the Social Democrats,
- >> destroyed "free unions,"
-
- The Bolsheviks(social-democrats) supressed miensheviks(social-democrats),
- Stalin supressed Trotsky supporters, Communists in Spain 1937 supressed POUM
- (socialists). National-socialists supressed international-socialists,
- Communists Factions supressed another factions in Poland in 1956, 1968, 1970,
- 1980, etc., etc. ...
-
- I accept that leftist parties are not solid. Numerous factions try to get
- all power, and supress their opponents even if they have similar ideology.
-
- >> rebuilt the army to twice what it had been in the Kaiser's era,
-
- Do you suggest that conscription is reactionary or conservative?.
- Do you suggest that raising taxes and full employment at the price of
- freedom is reactionary or conservative?
- Do you suggest that collecting gold teeth of the murdered prisoners is
- reactinary or conservative?
-
- Twice? I think you exaggerate, I'll check it.
-
- >> created a police state closer to the monarchial
- >> control process than ANY Socialist manifestations,
-
- I don't think many socialists are also monarchists, so your "closer" argument
- is missing. Besided, there are various monarchies in the world. The monarchy/
- republic is irrevelant here.
-
- Second the socialists in Russia had created "better" police control than
- anyone else in the world. Do you suggest that police control is conservative
- or reactinary?
-
- >> and generally behaved considerably more to the right side of the spectrum
- >> than the left.
-
- My impressions are exactly the opposite.
-
-
-
- >> I disagree. I suggest that you are bucking the definitions agreed
- >> upon by a significant majority of both political scientists and
- >> historians in your insistance that Nazism was not "rightist."
-
- Fists: I prefer evidence than majority.
- Second: Those who shout louder are not necessarily right
- Third: I think your point of view is somewhat biased
- Fourth: I suggest that your "majority" is flase nad/or misinformed
-
-
- >> ||fascism: Political system in which individual rights are systematically
- >> || denied in favor of the powers of the government. Property
- >> || under facism is officially "owned" by individuals, but it can
- >> || be taken at any time, and will be, in order to meet State goals.
- >>
- >> But, I suggest that what occurred in Germany was an alliance of
- >> private property and government, NOT suppression of individual
- >> PROPERTY rights, but individual POLITICAL rights.
-
- Do you suggest that pivate property was safe in Nazi Germany? Do you suggest
- that Jewish shop-owners were safely running their businesses, were excercizing
- individual property rights, and it was their plot to supress political rights
- of the Nazi gangs(for example political right to kick your muzzle)?
-
- >> Krupp, one of the
- >> largest property owners in Germany, was abetted by the state to
- >> greater profits by increased weapons orders and supply of slave
- >> labor, for which Alfried Krupp received a 10 year sentence and
- >> confiscation of all property in the early Fifties.
-
- Again the "owners" were only administrators of the cetrally controlled
- factories. I would like to remind you that private property is not only
- that of the big business, but also private time of the workers and property
- rights for your earnings. If you know about slave labour, how could you
- talk about "NOT supressing individual PROPERTY rights".
-
- I think both POLITICAL and ECONOMIC rights were suppressed by the Nazis.
- If someone has unfair profits from the business, no wonder it was confiscated.
-
- >>
- >> >Why? What is false? What is missing? You certainly know it. Why DON'T
- >> >you want to tell us?
- >>
- >> What is "false" is ypur insistance that you are right, and that most
- >> of the political analysis of the past fifty years is wrong.
-
- Well, I observe the world around, the present and the past, and assume
- I am right, unless someone proves I am not. In that case I change my views and
- opinions and am right again. It's obvious.
-
-
- The only analysis you have submitted, so far, is "Nazi is Rightist, Nazi is
- Rightist, ..." Such arguments are nor convincing.
-
-
-
- >> I suggest that "enough" is not reachable until we can agree on this
- >> critical area of definitions. Your analysis, I think, operates in the
- >> theoretical realm, but ignores the political/historical reality that
- >> Nazism is regarded as a "rightist" behavior. VMS
-
- Well, I have similar opinion about your "theories", but maybe thats not all
- you know about the subject.
- I am awaiting a lesson by an expert.
-
- Caius
-