Nice name. Hope you’re as good at repelling the barbarians at the gate the second time as you were the first time. Re: Fabian. I was referring to the Fabian Socialists who derived their name from Fabius Maximus Cunctator, not Fabian the rock star. You must have gotten confused with Obama the Rock Star.

Anyway, Fabius Max was was a yellowbellied version of Joseph Stalin, eschewing violent revolution for social evolution – preferring to bring about “socialist” (i.e. marxism) through “education” with promises of “hope” and “change”. Sound familiar?

Not quite the stuff that Bobby Vee crooned about… anyway, I have much more to say about the socialist DemocRATS’ election tactics here:

Electile Dysfunction: 2000 Election was Practice, 2008 the Real Coup?”

Hate Fabian?

OK, he was a pure media creation, but the swarthy lunk did have a certain charm to him.

Now Bobby Vee. . .

To the rest: … socialist, communist, nazi, fascist, progressive, liberal, fabian, green. WHATEVER. I hate ‘em ALL!!!!! Depotic tyranny is one head wearing many masks.

Aldous Huxley:

In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet–the scientific poet–of a new mythology. Both are justified in their pretensions; for each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant and ignore whatever they choose to regard an inessential; they impose a style, they compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection…the dream of Order begets tyranny, the dream of Beauty, monsters and violence.

With all due respect, citing the jubilant press about the non-aggression pact doesn’t make a lot of sense. The pact reassured both sides that they weren’t going to fight each other — isn’t that enough cause for celebration?

The National Socialists certainly took parts of their ideology from socialism, such as centralization of national industries. However, their goals for doing so were not to help the worker (a core tenet of socialism and communism); instead, it was to further their racist ideas of a German national state. The Nazis also promoted the idea of private property, provided that the property was not being used against their racist and nationalist goals.

There are certainly thousands of parallels in daily life under the Nazis and Communism. Both ideologies were totalitarian and sought total control.

In sum: to say that the Nazis were socialists purely because of the way they reformed a failing German economy ignores the racist ideology at the center of the Nazi platform.

Make Mine Freedom (1948)

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.”