Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Critical Race Theorists are on the Defence" video.

  1.  @eldermillennial8330  Fascists/communists believe that all means of production are under state control. ALL forms of collectivism only end up collectivizing those companies/industries it singles out. There's too much going on in an economy to be socialist about the whole thing. It's all pretty arbitrary. And they invariably destroy whatever industries they nationalize. The Nazis nationalized heavy industry, agriculture (more bread for the people!) and the railroads, among other things. Their ability to feed themselves was destroyed, because the bureaucrats had no idea how to run a business, as you say. People were freezing in winter because there was no coal. Actually, there was PLENTY of coal. They just couldn't get it from the mines to the people because the socialist government decided cheap train fares for family vacations were more important. No cars for coal. Not even enough for passengers, because the demand for the under-market train tickets was through the roof. It's all pandering and incompetence. The Nazis were terribly incompetent. Krupp Steel remained under private ownership, but it was more than happy to do and make anything the government told it to do or make. Some - like me - believe there is no functional difference between government ownership and government control. In either case, production is dictated by the government. Eventually, as is always the case, they needed slave labor to prop up their socialist project. They also needed to rob every Jew with two pfennigs to rub together. Privileges that accrue to industrialists under fascism also accrue to industrialists under communism. Big business welcomes government control. No more competition and too big to fail.
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  2.  @malcolm_in_the_middle  So you're saying Mussolini tried to re-brand HIS form of socialism. These are artificial, word-salad distinctions that intellectuals LOVE, but which signify NOTHING.
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  3.  @jaydy71  Bunch of empty rhetoric. The forms are IDENTICAL. Collective > Individual. Your stuff are ours. Use of force good. End justifies the means. Leninism was class-based, but they ran their own pogroms against the Jews and other ethnic groups. It's all the same. The rationale is different. Dictatorship is dictatorship.
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  4.  @atriumfalanggaming6470  The USA adopted MANY fascist features in the war against fascism. Those features didn't go away over time. They were baked into the political economy and the culture as "good things." Surveillance state shifted to anti-communism, and grew into what can only be described as 21st-Century Cossacks. State-run media was achieved, functionally, by media who were given insider access in return for printing government (and corporate) press releases VERBATIM as "news." Stories embarrassing to establishment members were suppressed/censored. Indoctrination of children in state-run public schools has been going on since the turn of the 20th Century, if not before. State involvement in the health care industry has made a red-tape NIGHTMARE that's grossly overpriced for anyone who actually pays out of pocket. Socialized medicine was the thin edge of the wedge of fascism in Weimar Germany. Bismarck came up with the idea in the late 19th Century, because industrialization and a growing middle class was making the aristocracy (the ruling-class Junkers) obsolete. The model for socialized medicine was taking from Krupp Steel, which basically invented the company town. They spent their corporate largesse on a paternalistic business model. Company workers gave their loyalty oath to the company, and in return, the company "cared for them." Nobody thought to ask "If you can afford all these freebies, why don't you just pay your workers more and let THEM decide how to handle their health care needs?" Bismarck really liked the loyalty oath and the fanatical loyalty such patronage instilled in Krupp workers. Bismarck wanted that kind of unthinking, unswerving loyalty from the masses towards the state and hence towards the ruling elites. Free stuff from the state is just a way to perpetuate serfdom by another name. That's the upshot of all the Marxist theory. It's just a way for a small ruling elite to get control over us peasants. We want a NEW way, not some pseudo-intellectual justification for a return to the OLD WAYS, and that's all that government-paid "free stuff" amounts to. "Let's get 'em hooked on the government tit, and we can get away with ANYthing!" I'm sure that's not what Marx was thinking. Marx was an intellectual who wasn't paid what he thought he was worth. An overgrown child, who could spin any tale required to cast himself as poor and picked-upon, even though he was born with all the advantages of a good education and hard-working parents who'd built up a modest fortune, which he IMMEDIATELY squandered on himself. A political theory created by a spoiled narcissist doesn't carry much weight with me.
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  5.  @xnkatta  Critical race theory is one facet of critical theory. Critical theory's purpose is to de-construct capitalism and replace it with collectivism. I don't care if you call it communism, socialism, fascism, or Nazism. It's all the same thing, championed by the same kinds of people, for over a century.
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  6.  @jaydy71  They were at war with communists for supremacy. Nazi versus Communist is left eating the left. You've been raised on fallacies.
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  7. CRT is just the most visible and objectionable piece of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity poison that permeates all major American institutions. Obliterating CRT does NOTHING to eliminate DIE offices in institutions across the continent. The postmodernist project continues unabated. Conservatives can celebrate the defeat of CRT and still not even move the needle on Marxist critical-theory indoctrination that's EVERYwhere in academia.
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  8. And Peter Boghossian. Alan Sokal spoofed postmodernist journals back in the '90s, but didn't get as much attention as Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian, who co-authored some real humdingers that were peer-reviewed and published - even praised - by morally and intellectually bankrupt Humanities journals.
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  9.  @jitblues  Exactly! "Real communism has never been tried!" LOL! They're pathetic.
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  10. @Zealadinn That's a nice way of calling @Mini ShadowHawk Gaming a useful idiot.
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  11. Communism was quite popular between 1917 and the early 1920s. Then American leftists started going to the Soviet Union to learn more about it. They came away with stories of starvation and the gulag. That gave communism a black eye. George Orwell was one of those red-pilled socialists. His visit to the USSR is what inspired "1984." Socialism/communism were totally discredited in the 1920s. So the game shifted to de-constructing capitalism. Nobody openly promoted collectivism. Instead, they systematically attacked everything that was NOT socialism, thereby promoting socialism by process of elimination, indirectly. And here we are in 2021, with more than half of the USA indoctrinated into how "good" government is, and thinking "only a bad person would be against this new program." Now many are even openly socialist, because memories fade, and the absolute destruction of communism as a legit form of government has been forgotten.
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