Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

@calzonelover3950 : Immigration is a non-issue for people like me who do not advocate for a "welfare" nanny state and want to tear the current one down, as immigration would naturally sort itself out. There would be no incentive to migrate willy-nilly and it would be more or less worked-based unless there are voluntary organizations taking them in and helping them personally. It's not rocket science. Once the Government starts handing out "free money" then it shouldn't be a surprise that eventually people from poorer countries will flock in, where that same amount of money is someone's monthly wage. Take the stupid UK UBI experiment from last year for example... £1,600 is pretty much what my wife makes in a month, and a bit less what I make. If UK would be stupid enough to actually give that amount to absolutely everyone, me and my wife would literally just move to UK and retire.
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@KM_Mountain : Argentinian president, Javier Milei.
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"It’s arguable that religious nationalism should also be considered far-right." This also belongs under Collectivism, hence on the Left side of the spectrum. Meanwhile people on the Right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount (individualism) and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized.
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You are not making any sense, considering Fascism was a socialist and a Leftist ideology, and strictly anti-capitalist.
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@Spiral.Dynamics : There are no lies, only historical facts. Cope harder.
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@Spiral.Dynamics : What does German have to do with this? Keep coping.
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However, both Fascism and National Socialism are on the Far-Left.
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It always was.
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"5. Shrinking the role of government = far right? Laughed at this one" Yes, it is. People on the Right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount (individualism) and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized. The more Right you go, the more individual rights and liberties are allowed, hence resulting in an economic liberalization and eventually, Laissez-faire. The more Left you go, the more collectivism is unleashed upon the society, hence resulting in an economic centralization and usually Socialism.
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"7. Celebrating our country's history of defeating THE ACTUAL FAR RIGHT NAZIs = far right 😂 dying laughing by now. " By definition, National Soci alism was a totalitarian Far-Left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on ethnonationalism trying to supersede Marxism as the most common socialist ideology. They had nothing to do with Right wing of any kind. You cannot be an advocate for centralized planning and strong government controls without being a socialist. That's what made Hitler a socia list. He may have been to the right from the Bolsheviks, but he was still a socialist leftist as he believed in strong central government control. Hitler outright declared himself a socialist in Mein Kampf, just not the Ma rxist international or full Soviet type. He struggled with HOW to distinguish his socialism from the rest of the Marxist crowd.
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@alexdings1725 "For fascism, I like to refer to Umberto Eco's list of 14 characteristics that fascist movements tend to have. " Useless. Umberto had no clue what Fascism was, and his list of 14 characteristics are so generic and vague, that most of them apply to every totalitarian and dictatorial regime.
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@Redf322 : Every country already has that, and it is not working.
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Funnily enough, both Fascism and National Socialism are on the Far-Left.
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"and a believer in a fairer society I do favour a degree of progressive taxation / redistribution " Except that is the complete opposite of fair. Don't you think it is unfair that someone does most of the work in a group assignment and then everybody gets the same grade no matter how much effort they put in, or at all? Just as much unfair, it is to steal money from people who happened to provide more things to the society and get wealthy because of it. If we want to talk about fairness, then everybody pitching in the same amount would be the most fair, i.e. a flat tax rate, regardless how much wealth they would have or generate after that.
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"Richard, you don't mention elephant in the room, which is neoliberalism, which according to google is all about, letting the markets rule, deregulation privatization and austerity with less state influence in the economy. " And that is the only way to create a functional society which doesn't collapse under high inflation and deep national dept.
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" without taxation of the rich, it is a system which makes the rich richer and poor poorer, " Wrong. When will you people learn that stealing money from others isn't going to make the world work? Rich people have enough money to leave your stupid country if you start stealing more from them. Also it is the government which is making rich richer and poor poorer by playing favorites etc.
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Jodie Foster was an idiot back then... still is if she thinks like that.
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"Do away with the tax havens and there is suddenly more money in the government's coffers." Well if you want more money in the gover nment's coffers, just do away with prop erty and hu man righ ts, and bec ome the totalitarian gove rnment you wish it would be. It's not like it hasn't been done before.
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National Socialists were the less radical left wing. They were by definition, socialists.
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In almost every European country, the government has been expanding, not shrinking... that ain't Neo-Liberalism.
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"The 'Far Right' years ago was the likes of Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Mosley etc... " Actually they were Far-Left socialists. They had nothing to do with Right wing of any kind.
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@franko2886 : Nope. I'm citing historical facts. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from a French Marxist, known as Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and marxism. The means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism. Fascism was an outgrowth of Sorellian Syndicalism, which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism. The idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the state, or "embody" the state (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the state, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." As created by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, Fascism comes from a belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its dictatorship cannot achieve Socialism, and that only the State can properly organize a Socialist Society. It cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State. [01] "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile [02] "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile [03] "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri [04] "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice [05] "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor [06] "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio [07] "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio [08] Any work from Emilio Gentile
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Jesus had nothing to do with secular politics in the first place.
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@Mayan_88694 : Wrong. They were Far-Left socialists. By definition, National Soci alism was a totalitarian Far-Left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on ethnonationalism trying to supersede Marxism as the most common socialist ideology. You cannot be an advocate for centralized planning and strong government controls without being a socialist. That's what made Hitler a socia list. He may have been to the right from the Bolsheviks, but he was still a socialist leftist as he believed in strong central government control. Hitler outright declared himself a socialist in Mein Kampf, just not the Ma rxist international or full Soviet type. He struggled with HOW to distinguish his socialism from the rest of the Marxist crowd.
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@pascalsolal "The fascists rejected capitalism in their propaganda, but in reality they got along with capitalists very well." Wrong. They rejected Capitalism everywhere. In their speeches, in their doctrine and in practice.
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@pascalsolal "Fascism is built upon the idea that inequalities are natural, whereas socialists, on the contrary, considers that all men are born equal." Except Fascism considered everyone to be equal, whilst having different functions, under the iron boot of the State. Fascism was built upon the idea that everyone would be unified under the "supreme" State. Fascism was the ultimate cult of the "welfare state". “The State exists for all the people, but is also above the people, and, if necessary, against the people. It is against them whenever they attempt to place their particular interests above the general interests of the Nation ... It is the purpose of Fascism to unify the Nation through the sovereign State, the State which is above all and can be against all, because it represents the moral continuity of the Nation. Without State there is no Nation.” - Mussolini, speech on August 8th, 1925.
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@pascalsolal "I don't agree with you." This has nothing to do with me, so no, you are not disagreeing with me... you are disagreeing with historical facts.
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@pascalsolal "Italian fascism was also based on the idea of biological race." It most certainly was not. There was nothing racist about the Fascist ideology. Mussolini introduced the "manifesto of race" over a decade after they had formulated the Fascist ideology with Giovanni Gentile. And even then, an Italian Fascist scholar questioned Mussolini over the treatment his Jewish friends were receiving after the promulgation of the Racial Laws, which prompted Mussolini to say: "I agree with you entirely. I don't believe a bit in the stupid anti-Semitic theory. I am carrying out my policy entirely for political reasons." Also, William Shirer in his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" suggests that Mussolini enacted the Racial Laws in order to appease his German allies, rather than to satisfy any genuine anti-Semitic sentiment among the Italian people.
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@pascalsolal "He says that nazis were "hyper-capitalists"." He is an idiot then, as Nazis and National Socialism had nothing to do with any kind of Capitalism nor Market based economic systems in general. They had a socialist Command economy almost identical to the USSR under Stalin.
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@pascalsolal "You say he's an idiot without knowing his arguments. Not very scientific." You said, that "He says that nazis were "hyper-capitalists" ... isn't that his argument?
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Fascists don't get elected tho... they are appointed.
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