I Have to Share This: Hitler Was NOT an Anomaly. Countries Create Their Own Fascism

[McCamy Taylor]

If you are like me, you were brought up to believe that Hitler created fascism, antisemitism, ideas of racial purity and everything else for which he was known out of his own crazed imagination, and because he was gifted with a silver tongue, he was able to prove the truth of the old adage you can fool all of the people some of the time. Therefore, I was startled, amazed, astounded to read that as far back as 1889, Austrian business leaders, politicians and landowners were desperately trying to hold onto their own laboring class---their "human capital"--which was emigrating to the US in search of better wages and living conditions. In an attempt to keep that all important low wage labor that capital so desperately craves, Austrian leaders went to court and charged travel agents with being part of a Jewish conspiracy to lure "white" Austrians into slavery in America where they would be bred with Blacks so that their progeny would live in slavery forever.

Here is a link:

http://www.americanacademy.de/sites/default/files/ZAHRA_BJ25.pdf

Imagine growing up in Austria, listening to the equivalent of the Koch Brothers telling you that Jewish people want to sell you into slavery. That they want to make sure that your children live in perpetual slavery. That your only hope is to stay at home in Austria and Germany and do what your masters----Austrian/German landowners and business leaders----tell you what to do.

Hitler did not create Nazi style fascism on his own. Hitler fulfilled the dreams of Austrian and German industrialists who were desperate to hold onto their "human capital"---the serfs, their slaves. And Hitler was able to seduce the Austrian and German people, because they had been brought up hearing that it was better to stay at home, even if that meant starving, than it was to go to another country where you risked being treated as less than human.

[avebury]

1. I have come to beiieve that the US

will rise up to be the 21st Century version of Nazi Germany (perhaps without death camps but we have to see about that). The signs are there and it is probably too late to do anything about it. I just don't know if will be in my life time or after I am gone.

[Squinch]

2. Good God! I hope you are wrong. I see where your thinking comes from, though.

The slaloming of our political system to the right, the rise of fundamentalism and the deathly fear of non-male, non-white power accumulation. I do see. But I think that minorities are quickly becoming too numerous, and minorities and women have come too far to go that far backward.

I do realize that might just be my own wishful thinking, though.

[Enthusiast]

4. avebury, I get the same impression.

The signs are there and it might be too late to correct the trajectory.

[Trillo]

3. Interesting. Similar to the error in the teachings of Jesus.

Only Hitler could create "fascism, antisemitism, ideas of racial purity"
Only Jesus could create "healing the sick, feeding the poor, dying cruelly on a cross"

In both cases, a "media" hierarchical figure was picked, and the human qualities projected onto the personality, and unfortunately, create the effect that only those folks could do those things. It's also interesting to consider further uses of celebrity in a similar light.