At Canada’s National Post, Michael Coren reports on “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” — a new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on the role of the elites that “gave a grimy intellectual veneer to the Nazi genocide”:
The exhibit is important, accurate but, regrettably, long overdue. It also fails to stress just how much the socialist left initiated and supported the eugenics campaign, not only in Germany but in Britain, the U. S. and the rest of Europe. Playwright George Bernard Shaw, English social democrat leader Sydney Webb and, in Canada, Tommy Douglas were just three influential socialists who called, for example, for the mass sterilization of the handicapped. In his Master’s thesis The Problems of the Subnormal Family, the now revered Douglas argued that the mentally and even physically disabled should be sterilized and sent to camps so as not to “infect” the rest of the population.
It is deeply significant that few if any of Douglas’s left-wing comrades in this country or internationally were surprised or offended by his proposals. Indeed the early fascism of 1920s Italy, while unsavoury and dictatorial, had little connection with social engineering and eugenics. The latter German version of fascism was influenced not by ultra conservatism in southern Europe but, as is made clear in the writings of the Nazi ideologues, by the Marxist left.
Coren, the author of a highy-regarded biography of H. G. Wells, knows whereof he writes. It is a companion piece of sorts to our host Jeff G’s “Provocateurism” series discussing the topic as raised in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, as well as Jeff’s recent pieces of Devil’s advocacy under the heading of “The Rise and Fall of Homosexual Culture: could science and judicial activism lead to the eventual eradication of homosexuality?”
I found Coren’s piece via see-dubya, who also notes the story of Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, a 48-year-old woman who ran an abortion clinic who faces multiple felony charges in Los Angeles and now Chula Vista of running unlicensed abortion clinics that preyed on women in the Hispanic community and endangered their lives. A quick scan of Google News this morning turned up only a dozen or so stories on Bugarin — almost entirely local coverage. Some topics are just a bit too sensitive for the establishment media.
(Original h/t The American Digest.)
Uh, what?
AJB clearly missed the word “latter” in the bit he quoted. Not that Hitler’s public statements were always the most reliable guide to his plans.
– nishi in 3 -2 -1 …”And now back to our regularly scheduled pro-eugenics posting by the resident “non-Facist” Comrad nishi. Today Ms nishi is coming to us from the Seal point California incarceration camp for undesirables, where she will discuss who gets singled out, and why they should go quietly like good citizens and not fight it….Ms nishi?
– ABJ continues to play the “Communisn/Marxism is different from Facism” game.
– They were not different in any meaningful way when you examine the goals and tactics. Communists are extreme Socialists, and so were the Nazi’s. they just overlayed it with the anti-Jew, Aryan themes.
– They were no different, just competitors with the same totalitarian desires.
AJB has proven to be incapable of understanding even a basic point, and a complete lack of ability to make one itself.
…the Seal Point California incarceration camp for undesirables…
BBH, in terms of linguisitic production, shouldn’t you say “public health enhancement facilities.”
Look – as long as Bertha is aborting Hispanic would-be Catholic “embryos”, who gives a shit? I mean besides myself. Just like tumors… and the Hispanic ones usually end up malignant. Ask a lefty-WASP. They’ll tell you. They won’t write about it… but over some margaritas at the quaint little cantina on the beach… they’ll fess up… at least around proper company.
To be perfectly fair, “socialist” is at least somewhat the wrong word in this context.
Eugenics is a central feature of Progressivism — indeed, it wouldn’t be completely wrong to say it’s the defining feature. All of the founders and definers of progressivism were eugenicists. The whole definition of progressivism is improvement of the human race, and getting rid of “bad genes” is inescapably basic to that.
Progressivism and Socialism are thoroughly entwined with one another, of course, since both are basically attempts to attach new verbiage to a pseudofeudal order with its advocates as the new nobility, and Socialists also embrace eugenics (“New Soviet Man” and accompanying “purges” of “undesirables”). Sharing some ideals is not sufficient to make the two identical. It is perfectly possible to be a socialist without being a Progressive, although the opposite is not necessarily true.
Regards,
Ric
I am, finally, reading Jonah’s “Liberal Fascism”.
What a stunning indictment of the reactionary left, and he’s got them nailed, chapter and verse.
Read it, and you’ll never again wonder why I always refer to leftists as ‘reactionaries’.
Ric has the right of it.
Socialism speaks of the Greater Good. And that means that the macro-Utopian-objective overrides any consideration of the micro. And the smallest of the small are those who are most defenseless. We are already there… this is the compounding impact of tolerating abortion: that the inherent value of life is first subjected to considerations of convenience/inconvenience, then the human person is re-labeled with some sterile and less offensive term. Ultimately, life is not life. And when life is not life it has no inherent value. That is to say, we move into pure humanist territory, where there is no Natural Law. Should sound mighty familiar.
“…seen too oft, familiar with its face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace!” (pope)
Perhaps AJB can outline the planks of the Nazi party program for us. And discuss how it came to use the red on its flag.
For those who need a refresher…
The move from a one-world socialism to a nationalized socialism was a strategy that appealed to national pride and mythology, and — in the short term, at least — manageability of the program.
Fascism was “right wing” according to Stalin; but it was clearly the right wing of the far left.
“(â€ÂNew Soviet Man†and accompanying “purges†of “undesirablesâ€Â).”
Thanks, Ric, I posted that same thought the other day.
In response to the nishinazi, of course.
“Fascism was “right wing†according to Stalin; but it was clearly the right wing of the far left.”
As I keep pointing out to the ignorant, according to the Stalinists, Leon fucking Trotsky was a “fascist”.
Trotsky, from wikipedea:
“…a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and the People’s Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.”
There’s your fascist, right there.
One might also draw AJB’s attention (if it has any) to some of the things that (e.g.) Maoists have said about Stalinists, or Stalinists have said about Trotskyites.
Adolf bad-mouthing the imported brand (Bolshevism) in favor of the home-grown variety proves nothing.
Have we learned nothing from Star Trek?
KAAAAHHHN!
I haven’t pissed in a fan for a couple of hours now, so I might as well see if I can break the circle this subject always sets the trolls to spinning. AJB, or any other out there who don’t think the Nazi’s were socialists, what economic system would you class them as and why? The why is really important, by the way.
Does anyone happen to know who the ‘Schieber’ referred to in this passage from the NSDAP principles is? :
“18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, Schieber and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.”
Thanks
Schieber appears to be slang for “black marketeers”.
I’ve turned up a few usages such as “A customer bought a pack of Camel from a Schieber”, “he had not realized that all ‘Schieber’ on the black market had been Jews”, “I sold my house in the suburbs out here to a Jewish Schieber, and in a little while the money he gave me for it wouldn’t buy a box of matches”
“Schieber” itself seems to mean “vane” (as in weathervane?) and “Schiebe” means “slide”.
Also, an on-line translator gives “Schieber” for the English “slider”.
“Slider” seems like a plausible slang term for black marketeer.
Schieber is litterally translated as ‘slide,’ however, it can also conote a profiteer. This is almost certainly the intended meaning here.
After seeing a mention of ‘pusher’ in a google entry on schieber I tried a german-english dictionary. There were many variants of schieber (55 results I think) but none specifically pining ‘pusher’ or blackmarketeer or the like. Since Schieber can also be a persons name I figured it was somebody well known to the audience, but maybe not. It’s a minor deal at best so let’s leave it and move on.
For instance this historical curiosity:
“20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions.”
Wasn’t BarryO promising a few days ago to see to it that EVERY american child will be able to go to college and have the cost borne by the people of the USA? Now that’s some serious RIGHTIST talk, right there. Better watch him. He could be a Bircher.
A search of “NSDAP” & “schieber”, brings up this article, BRITISH BLACK POSTCARDS OF WORLD WAR II, which has several references to Walter Schiber, as well as, meaning a profiteer.
Thanks Roboc. I saw mention of Walter Schieber earlier too but figured it wouldn’t be him as he was associated with Speer c. 1940s, while the party platform was dated 1920 and I assumed that anyone who could rise to the level of being mentioned by name in the platform would certainly be dead or escaped by 1935. The ‘profiteer’ angle is interesting, however, though again the G-E dictionary didn’t see fit to include any near term. Maybe the language simply purged the usage post V-E day. I dunno.
A Schieber need not be a black marketeer; the term simply refers to a not particularly scrupulous businessman or trader, one who operates on the edges of respectability and/or legality. For the Pratchett fans, C.M.O.T. Dibbler is a Schieber.
Regards,
Ric
Was bedeutet das wort, “Schieber”, auf Deutsch?
My Mother (born near Düsseldorf)always used it for a “low life” or “sleazy”. I thought she meant a hood or a gangster.
I suspect that Schieber in this context is being used as slang for “slippery character” which of course leads to an objective standard for who belongs to that group. Not….
AJB – think of Communists and Nazis being branches from the same tree (Marxism) and then fighting hard over who gets to run things. Like the Houses of Lancaster and York, but without all of the armor and swords and stuff.
Whitewashing the holocaust, or eugenics?
Well, Serr8d – that guy certainly denies nice, but the nazis (as you know) weren’t looking at the same traits to preserve as that author, and did not equate “accomplishment” with “trait”. what they did was eugenics, very ramped up eugenics. (1) Figure out who has the traits we want; (2) get them to make babies, and have the state support that; (3) figure out who has the traits we don’t want, (4) work/gas them to death.
Yep, sounds like a good way to breed the perfect Aryan.
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