[lbo-talk] Anti-communism

Lewis Higgins wsm_mod at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 24 12:59:55 PDT 2005


Chris Doss wrote:


> A better answer would have been that one can
> riticize Nazi Germany for stuff it actually did,
like > massacre Jews and invade countries, not for fictions > such as its oppression of the leprechaun population. > Attack the USSR all you want for suppressing the
> Prague Spring, locking up dissidents and so forth.
> Accusing it of having pauperized the working class
is > the stuff of fantasy. Actually the working class was > the most priviliged stratum of the population outside > the elite.

Supporters of Nazi Germany could make many of the same claims: unemployment was virtually non-existent, subsidized health care, free passes, etc. In the regions of the former East Germany, many workers are nostalgic for the Nazi era, not the imposed system of the USSR. However, the choice is probably a national chauvinistic one rather than ideological, since they were both police states. And that, surely, is the issue.

-- Lew

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