Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party are the
crazy relatives that the present day Left goes to great effort to avoid
talking about. The pragmatic brand of Socialist (as opposed to the
doctrinaire Marxist) will strike the pose that will have the most appeal
in the target audience's minds. Thus in Germany where the army was
traditionally held in the highest esteem the NSDAP assumed in public
the form of a substitute army (ersatzarmee) with a mass of clean cut men
in spiffy uniforms marching about in disciplined formations. In the
United States, where the standing military was traditionally looked upon
with suspicion if not ridicule the Left rejected the militarist
paradigm. Unfortunately they assumed the form of what decent people came
to call dirty stinking hippies, a mob of unwashed savages attired in
cast off or otherwise ridiculous clothing who moved about in a sloppy
mass. The American Left in its manifestation as the Anti-war Movement
had in effect taken on the modern form of a barbarian horde. But given
that Socialism is essentially barbarian brigandage in modernistic
makeup why should we be surprised?
Friday, July 05, 2024
On Barbarism
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