It is commonplace today to assert the death of civility and open debate in academia, in the mainstream regime media, and in the nation at-large. If someone on the Left cannot answer or address an argument they resort to scurrilous name calling, labeling their opponent a “Nazi” or “racist,” even in many cases, a savage thuggish resort to physical violence and assault.
Dinesh D’Souza has a new book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, which was released today on Amazon. It purports to move beyond Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse; and Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change, in asserting the common ideological make-up and philosophical origins of American Democrats and German Nazis. This is a very controversial thesis which strikes at the dark clotted heart of contemporary Democrats and progressives. The key to this line of thought is an exploration of the ideological “left-wing” roots of National Socialism and Marxism. There is excellent prior research which points in this sinister direction.
Take a look at this brief excerpt from the award-winning documentary, The Soviet Story, which compares and contrasts National Socialism (Nazism) under Hitler and International Socialism (Communism) under Stalin. Both were violent left-wing, anti-capitalist movements which believed in creating “a new man,” by pseudo-Darwinian selective breeding (eugenics) and eliminating the “racial trash” (Friedrich Engels term) by genocide. It was recognized at the time of the origins of Soviet Communism in the USSR, fascism in Italy (created by the former radical Marxist revolutionary Benito Mussolini), and the NSDAP in Germany, that all were competing leftist ideological movements.
The Nazis got their spurious ideas on eugenics (and financial funding from major foundations) in the United States from progressive intellectuals and scientists – virtually every man or woman a Democrat, see Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era. See also Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race; Edwin Black, Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust; and Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism.
11:52 am on August 1, 2017
