Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "Desperate historians try to defend the Nazi "privatization" myth" video.

  1.  @Arkantos117  Nazism is a variant of Fascism. They're different because they developed in different countries. But the identifying principle, Might-Makes-Right, was central to both of them as it was in Salazar's Portugal, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile or (possibly), Trump's US if he gets re-elected.
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  2.  @Arkantos117  Not remotely uneducated. That's the substance of all Fascism: The belief that democracy is wrong because it allows the inferior majority to direct the superior elite when, according to their lights, it should be the other way around. That's what Franco's takeover of Spain was about, that's what the March on Rome was about, that's what the Night of the Long Knives was about, it's what Pinochet believed, it's what Trump and his supporters believe. Race and misogyny may well be part of the mix but they are not the root cause. Fascism is basically the institutionalisation of bullying.
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  3. The Economist is not and was not Keynesian. It is and always has been a Right wing publication.
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  4.  @colebehnke7767  Er no. It has a meaning which is pretty much universally acknowledged.
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  5.  @colebehnke7767  The term originated in the pre-revolutionary French assembly. Reactionary representatives sat on the right and progressives on the left. That meaning has carried forward in relative terms ever since. It does get a bit confusing at some points in history. For example, Gladstone's Liberals (who represented capitalists) and Disraeli's Conservatives (landed gentry) were variously more or less progressive than each on different issues. And in the US today, both main parties are on the right or far right. But by and large, in most countries, it's widely and more or less universally accepted that Left means socialist and/or progressive and Right means conservative and/or reactionary.
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  6.  @colebehnke7767  The Romans and the various Ancient Chinese empires were pre-age of reason so the question is irrelevant. The Catholic change is largely a regressive institution which has opposed most democratic progress but there are exceptions within it. Liberation theology still holds out in Latin America. The current Pope has some association with it - so who knows where it will go next?
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  7. @ Whether what's true or not? Who claimed that three banks were reprivatised? Which banks?
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