Mr. Rubenstein mentioned what has become received
wisdom which was that Stalin and the German
Communistparty had helped to elect Hitler in 1933.
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Firstly, the right advocates,as I pointed out to
Rubenstein, limited government and Hitler was not
exactly an advocate of limited government. The right
understanding of nationalism involves an overall love of
ones home country whether that country is the United
States, Canada, Mexico etc. The left understanding of
nationalism, on the other hand, involves a love of the
State. In this sense the left is hyper-nationalist as
opposed to the more conservative nationalism. The left
views the State as a redemptive force that should be
empowered to change society and to literally change
human nature through programs that re-distribute
wealth from the private earner and through
bureaucracies made up of enlightened experts who
would use the force of law to inveigh themselves into
all matters of the private lives of the citizen.
This, obviously, describes Nazism to a tee. This also
clarifies why the Nazis were right-wing in that they
were to the right of the Communists who sought total
control by the State over all aspects of human life in
their quest to establish a world ant colony, what they
called a collective. The Nazis supported State
Socialism, a high degree of public ownership within a
super state. The Communists supported World
Socialism, what they euphemistically referred to as
Internationalism, and outright total ownership of all
property and business. This is why Communism is to
the left of Nazism and Nazism is to the right of
Communism. Both ideologies and both systems
are, obviously, to the left of the American
system of individual rights and private
ownership.
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Indeed anti-Semitism and racism assign collective
characteristics to groups of people based upon their
ancestry and this idea runs contrary to the core
conservative tenet which is respect for the inherent
rights of the individual. Judaism and Christianity, when
viewed as philosophies, also reject racism as the Judeo-
Christian understanding is that each and every individual
is uniquely created in the image of God and should not
be in any way viewed as part of any group. This view
explains in part why both Nazism and Communism were
anti-Jewish and anti-Christian.
Furthermore, it should benoted, the father of
Communism, Karl Marx, was a vicious anti-Semite who
referred to Jews in his 1843 book On the Jewish
Question as self-interested hucksters who should be
annihilated. Marx also profoundly influenced Hitler who
credits him with providing the foundation of his political
education in his autobiography Mein Kampf.
