sakinago
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"We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”From the church in Mississippi, to the stabbings in Portland, the majority of terrorist acts in this country are committed by right wing extremist white males.
America's Biggest Terrorist Threat? The Far-Right White MaleAlt right violence is the biggest threat we have in the country today.
The Trump administration may deny it, but the numbers are there.
The number of violent attacks on U.S. soil inspired by far-right ideology has spiked since the beginning of this century, rising from a yearly avarage of 70 attacks in the 1990s to a yearly avarage of more than 300 since 2001. These incidents have grown even more common since President Donald Trump’s election.
Your own article admits it has to ignore 2 big Muslim extremist attacks to get its number. Also the definition of far right the author uses is the European definition. Which the European spectrum isn't so much of a spectrum, but more of a circle, or horseshoe. With fascism and communism at either tops, and what we consider libertarianism at the bottom of the U. This differs from the American spectrum, in that anarchist is far right, then libertarian, then conservative, moderate R, moderate D, progressive, socialist, national socialist, communist at the far left. Remember, NAZI stands for NATIONAL SOCIALIST. Socialist being the operative word there, and is not far off from communism. The only difference is communism has complete control of essentially everything, fascism has control of most with a little bit of ad lib ability. Which doesn't mix well with anything past moderate R. Stop calling it right wing.
Nazis were not socialists and nazism is still a far right ideaology.
National Socialist Party was the name of the Party that Hitler co-opted, just as the Republican Party is the party Trump co-opted but Trump is no Republican. Holder hated socialists and loathed communism. The was a right wing fascist dictator.
-Hitler 1927
Hitler had control of economy, controlled wages to workers. Instituted socialized medicine, and free day care for all, as well as free education. And straight up took control of industries and business, and created government ran benifits, as well as food stamp programs, etc, given out liberally to the population he wasn't exterminating. Ever hear of Volkswagen... "Volks" (the people) "Wagen" (car)...the people's car. Or the Autobahn, that was a government program to get the masses back to work, much like FDRs socialist policies. He also implemented gun control. That's socialism for ya. Often Hitler's domestic policies were overlooked by the whole Eugenic cleansing, and world domination type policies. And just because there was plenty of nationalism in Nazi germany to go around, doesn't mean that there wasn't any socialism. You don't have to be one or the other, hybrid governments exist, look at China. And just because Hitler wasn't a "democratic socialist" doesn't mean he wasn't a socialist, sure him and Bernie would disagree on a good bit (mostly the Eugenics, and domination stuff). But, Lenin I believe coined the term "democratic socialist," (if he didn't coin it, he certainly described himself that way) and look how that turned out.
And how many times do I have to explain this. If you're referring to the European spectrum, where what we call libertarian is in the middle, and communism is far left, and fascism is far right, then yes it is far right. In that system it's best to look at it like a U shape with the Y axis representing increasing government control, with libertarianism at the bottom of the U. Remember a liberal in Europe is very different from a "liberal" in America. A liberal in Europe is what we call libertarian. If you're referring to the American system (which it sounds like you are), from right to left is increasing government control, with communism on one end (left) and anarchy on the other end (right). Then NO, it is not far right, since fascism requires a great deal of government control.