--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>Oh, please. Sure there is. You can say there are
>affinities, and I have, but "no substantial
difference"? >Come down from 40,000 feet and give some
examples to >prove this rather overstated assertion.
Check out this link: http://www.deutsche-stimme.de/Ausgaben2006/Sites/01-06-Imperium.html
I think I remember from one of your posts that you can read German. If not, tell me and I will translate the article.
It's a review from the neo-Nazi newspaper Deutsche Stimme, the official NPD organ. The book under review is by the journalists Werner Pirker and Willi Langthaler, both members of the Stalinist tendency within the Communist Party of Austria and the Anti-Imperialist Coordination of Vienna, a group that enjoys ties to Baathists and other friends of the people.
The book is called: "Ami Go Home: 12 gute Gründe für einen Antiamerikanismus" [Ami Go Home - 12 good reasons for Anti-Americanism]
Right down to the condemnations of the "cooperation between big business and big government," the praise for the heroic Che Guevara and the outrage over the evil deeds of the United Fruit Company, right on down to the condemnation of the "American empire" whose only "impetus" is the "profit motive."
In other words, nothing you wouldn't find in the pages of Counterpunch or the Monthly Review.
Maybe Nazis are just becoming more successful at appropriating traditional leftist rhetoric, but I think there's no way for a left to effectively counter this sort of thing so long as it continues to view National Socialism and Fascism as simply just ultra-reactionary capitalist rule.
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