Don't really mean to interupt here, but needed to make just a couple of points:
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Originally Posted by El Blanco
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As for Lincoln and FDR, as much as they were racist, hypocritical and un-insightful,
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They were none of these, but hey, you got that "I'm a 14, angry, overprivalaged white kid listening to too much Rage Against the Machine" rant going, so why stop now? |
Well, I agree with you except on the racism matter. Lincoln certainly was a racist, and in fact was a part of the American Colonization Society.
The point though is whether it's fair or not to criticize him for it. He
publicly denounced a coexistence with blacks, but that may have been greatly due to the political pressures of the day.
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That is why a whole section of the ruling class hands over power to a military leader which establishes the rule of the sword, that is a military dictatorship to guarantee the maintenance of capitalism. This is a key feature of fascism (and national socialism is just fascism by another name).
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Actually, most private bussinesses in every regime we can call fascist so far ended up nationalized or under very strit government control (military overseers on the bords etc). Sounds kind of communist, doesn't it?
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Yes and no. You hear this comparison a lot from the Right, that all Authoritarin regimes and dictatorships were in fact a result of Socialism, but this isn't completely true, IMO.
These Fascist states heavily controlled much of the industry, but it was a supply-side control, not an across the board redistribution.
EDIT: It's great to see Vince has firmly planted himself as I-Mockery cheerleader.
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