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I think they're more worried about what the Swiss did and what the Greeks will do.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31249907
Russia possibly planning a move to the Gold Standard
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I think they're more worried about what the Swiss did and what the Greeks will do.
:shrug:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31249907
Russia should stay away from the Dollar for its World currency exchange and fall back on gold that worked for thousands of years, sell it's oil to China and North Korea while maintaining its Navy ships in international water off the U.S. coast.
That could help create a better Commie standard of living.
That could help create a better Commie standard of living.
Hopefully the Fed reserve system will crash and the 1% will fail with the private Fed reserve.
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The 1% always have safeguards including gold.
When the Fed's bubble pops, it is the 99% that will pay the price.
When the Fed's bubble pops, it is the 99% that will pay the price.
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And now the FCC plans on creating internet monopolies by stacking the deck against start-up competition. The lack of vigorous dissent from the big ISP's should be a red flag to everyone. "Pleeeeeeeeeze Brer Fox, don't throw me in that briar patch."
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Yes. But Big Business played the same game with Herr Hitler thus proving he was a right-winger, not a National Democratic Socialist...
Just like all the shop-owners who paid protection money to the mob were "made" men.
Just like all the shop-owners who paid protection money to the mob were "made" men.
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Hitler's party was called the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" Democracy had nothing to do with his dictatorship of Germany.Yes. But Big Business played the same game with Herr Hitler thus proving he was a right-winger, not a National Democratic Socialist...
Just like all the shop-owners who paid protection money to the mob were "made" men.
Conservatives disingenuously accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist."
But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.
In short, Nazi Germany under Hitler was "Socialist" in name only. Just as you are Libertarian in name only Mr. "Not Republican".
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I consider people who post in my threads when they know they are in ignore both hateful and stupid.
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Hitler's beliefs did not place him on the (American) far right, which is "classical liberal" ie laissez faire market uber alles.
The essence of German fascism is to overcome class war (Communist revolution was seen as imminent in Germany) by uniting all classes in service of higher aims. No, you don't get a raise or real union representation, but you do get this nice uniform and you get to march around with torches and feel part of something bigger, and the boss wears a military uniform instead of a top hat.
Hitler worked with big capitalists to gain power, but he certainly wasn't their tool, as seen in the endgame of the war.
On the other hand, the fact that he was an authoritarian statist does not make him a socialist--another artifact of the cold war on American political thought.
The essence of German fascism is to overcome class war (Communist revolution was seen as imminent in Germany) by uniting all classes in service of higher aims. No, you don't get a raise or real union representation, but you do get this nice uniform and you get to march around with torches and feel part of something bigger, and the boss wears a military uniform instead of a top hat.
Hitler worked with big capitalists to gain power, but he certainly wasn't their tool, as seen in the endgame of the war.
On the other hand, the fact that he was an authoritarian statist does not make him a socialist--another artifact of the cold war on American political thought.
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We've been through this before. I consider all forms of Interventionism as pretty much the same critter because they all lurch in jerks and sudden turns to the same absurd logical consequence, the rise of the Oligarchy and the emergence of a strong man.
I have also repeatedly stated, that while it may be arguable as to whether or not he was a "Socialist," he was the product of a German school of economic and social thought that was Socialist...
I have also repeatedly stated, that while it may be arguable as to whether or not he was a "Socialist," he was the product of a German school of economic and social thought that was Socialist...
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When did that ever stop us...
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I consider people who post in my threads when they know they are in ignore both hateful and stupid.
We know Cap'n you abhor having your ignorance pointed out. It's an open forum bucko, the fact that you insulate yourself from any competing thought doesn't mean that we shouldn't post them in your threads. I've told you many times, I don't post for YOU, I post to show others exactly how far off base you are.
Now if you want actual hateful stupidity just look to your old pal DizzyBooby.
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We've been through this before. I consider all forms of Interventionism as pretty much the same critter because they all lurch in jerks and sudden turns to the same absurd logical consequence, the rise of the Oligarchy and the emergence of a strong man.
I have also repeatedly stated, that while it may be arguable as to whether or not he was a "Socialist," he was the product of a German school of economic and social thought that was Socialist...
Still making up your own definitions for words to fit your ideology huh Cap'n?
I'm SO surprised.
