Racists, Nazis, & Communists
When the Unite the Right rally broke out into violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11 and 12, the battle lines were drawn between two groups reported as being diametrically opposed. On one side was the “white power” element of the alt-Right that has been branded (sometimes correctly) as Nazi. On the other side was the “militant” Left, which the liberal media go out of their way not to report as communists. Yet not only is that label demonstrably accurate, especially where the Antifa crowd is concerned, it is becoming clearer and more pronounced. Here’s the rub, though: Nazis (popularly portrayed as “extreme-Right”) and communists (accurately portrayed as “hard-Left”) are ideological cousins.
It is important to remember — regardless of how the media spin the facts — that “Nazi” is short for National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The word “Socialist” is the operative word in that title, just as it was in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Communism and socialism both are expressions of Marxist ideology. Both groups use Marx’s Communist Manifesto as a guide — a type of “scripture” — in both forming a worldview and establishing principles to guide policy. The only real difference between communism and socialism is best illustrated in the old saying, “A communist is just a socialist in a hurry.” When — as in the years leading up to and including WWII — communism and socialism seem to be at odds, it is merely a matter of two sides disagreeing on the method of accomplishing an objective; there is no real disagreement on the objective itself, and that objective is total government — totalitarianism. Here is a simple truth the liberal media bends over backward to conceal: Both Nazis and communists occupy the left side of the political spectrum. (For a wonderful analysis of this, do a YouTube search for Overview of America by The John Birch Society’s John F. McManus.) Both Nazism and communism have been responsible for mass democides.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers a breakdown of the numbers of people killed by the Nazis, utilizing “a variety of different records, such as census reports, captured German and Axis archives, and postwar investigations, to compile these statistics,” but remarking on the “difficult task” of “calculating the numbers of individuals who were killed as the result of Nazi policies” since “there is no single wartime document created by Nazi officials that spells out how many people were killed in the Holocaust or World War II.” In his excellent book Death by Government, R.J. Rummel — who coined the word “democide” to refer to intentional murder by government — calculates that the Nazis killed an estimated 21,000,000 people. Much of this killing was racially motivated, especially where Jewish people were concerned. There is also little doubt that number would have been much higher had the defeat of Germany not cut the killing short.
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