On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> writes:
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> --- Tim <tim_boetie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> > Isn't that a rather Eurocentric position? Why should
> > third-world
> > leftists care about fairly marginal political groups
> > in France and
> > Germany?
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> 1) Third-world leftists can make their own decisions
> regarding these things. My concern is that
> First-world leftists should at least pause and reflect
> when Nazis start wearing palestinian scarves and Che
> Guevara t-shirts. There is literally no substantial
> difference between the national liberation rhetoric of
> the statist Left and the fascist Right.
Well there is nothing new about fascists borrowing political rhetoric from the left. Hitler in *Mein Kampf* claimed that he borrowed many of his political tactics and propoganda techniques from the Social Democrats and Communists. He deliberately adopted the color red for his party's flags, precisely because that color has traditionally been associated with socialism and his political movement was after called National Socialism. And Hitle, up to the time that he took office as chancellor, had been very free with the anticapitalist rhetoric too. Perhaps the leftists of his day should have paused and reflected over the fact that Hitler claimed to be anticapitalist and a "socialist."
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> 2) I don't know what definition of marginal you are
> using. The NPD has a fraction in the state parliament
> of Saxony. The civil society in large parts of
> Eastern Germany is effectively under Nazi hegemony.
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