Comments by "Walter Bailey" (@walterbailey2950) on "TIKhistory" channel.

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  11.  @guyvert49  Fascism including Nazism is a great example of a right wing ideology that kills people. You’re just proving my point but attempting to say that nothing bad ever happens on the right. Only an ideologue could believe something so absurd. Leftist ideology is based on the idea of including all people in the redistribution of wealth. It’s heresy to leftist ideology to exclude and target people based on race the way the Nazis did. Hitler also bitterly opposed the confiscation of aristocratic estates all the way through his leader ship of the Nazi party. This is what Socialism meant to Hitler “Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false. Hitler 1938 And if you think that mere adherence to the community makes someone a socialist then the American founding fathers were also socialists. (Well one of them Thomas Paine actually was but not the rest of them). “To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government.” John Adams
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  19.  @guyvert49  Traditional authoritarian structures never cease to be part of the past. Trying to preserve them the way the Nazis did never becomes left of center. Authoritarianism in Germany in particular has an unbroken history from the middle ages all the way through the 19th and early twentieth centuries. It was very much the “traditional establishment” of Germany throughout that entire time. So the Nazis preservation of it doesn’t become leftist just because you don’t think that authoritarianism ought to be considered anything conservative. The simple fact is that it was conservative not just of the distant past but of the recent past in Germany. And you don’t get to make up your own definitions in order to rewrite the history of ideas. You may want to rewrite history but that’s simply not within your power. This is the problem with cult theorizing like anarcho-libertarianism: its willful ignorance of and attempt to disregard history. History is reality. It doesn’t necessarily conform to your theories about the way things should be. And in fact it very often doesn’t, especially when you’re a utopian ideologue like an anarcho-libertarian. Utopian theorists like Marxists and libertarians are continually getting contradicted by the unfolding events of history because they try to force fit pure abstractions onto much messier and more complex human nature. But espousing conservatism doesn’t insulate you from human nature and its potential to be corrupted by power. It never has and it never will no matter how “modern” conservative ideology becomes. Power will always corrupt people no matter where they are on the political spectrum or what ideology their espouse. So there will always be potential for evil and authoritarianism on both left and the right.
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