"The unique evil of the left"

[Carl Sonnen]

"Is it too much to say that since the French Revolution, the left has been the source of virtually all political evils, and continues to be so in our day?

There can be no doubt that great cruelty and violence can be and have been inflicted in the name of preserving the existing order.

But when we compare even the worst enormities of the more distant past with the leftist totalitarian revolutions and total wars of the twentieth centuries, they are in general a mere blip. The entire history of the Inquisition, said Joe Sobran, barely rises to the level of what the communists accomplished on a good afternoon."

"Now I can imagine the following objection to what I’ve said: whatever we may say about the crimes and horrors of the left, we cannot overlook the totalitarianism of the right, manifested most spectacularly in Nazi Germany.

But in fact, the Nazis were a leftist party. The German Workers’ Party in Austria, the forerunner of the Nazis, declared in 1904: 'We are a liberty-loving nationalistic party that fights energetically against reactionary tendencies as well as feudal, clerical, or capitalistic privileges and all alien influences.'"

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/08/lew-rockwell/the-nazis-were-leftists/

 

[HomerThompson]

 

[RockstarChris]

The Leftist Party:

White Overlord that has african americans, mexicans, and other racial groups constantly voting for them.

 

[Limbo Pete]

My thoughts exactly

 

[Undying Poster]

There's so many articles from the right fixating on the left and explaining how the left is evil and mentally ill but you don't find the equivalent from the left.

Just pure obsession and madness but the left are the mentally ill ones.

 

[Hans Gruber]

My thoughts exactly

Your first thoughts are of a fat topless transgender cartoon character?

 

[AviatorShades]

Nazism doesn't really fit into the left-right paradigm. They tend to market themselves as "third position" (ie ethnocultural nationalism + economic socialism). It's ideological opposite would be globalist consumerism, which we also have difficulty applying to the left/right paradigm, hence the ironically interchangeable nicknames like "neoliberal" and "neocon".

Socialism is inherently reactionary. It's an obsession with liberation as opposed to optimization/mutual benefit, so you need an overlord of some sort. Post-WW1 Germany was in a now-common but then-unique situation: The native population was downtrodden compared to cliques of urban foreigners. They saw themselves not unlike a Native American "Noble Savage" rising up against the Entente-enabled Jewish merchants.

The enemies of earlier socialism (the aristocracy and bourgeoisie) resulted in reactionary internationalism: No more wars between nations on behalf of kings and merchants.

German post-war poverty perceived different oppressors therefore resulted in a different reactionary narrative. The aristocracy were more or less irrelevant and the bourgeoisie were the internationalists who had bought Germany at discount prices. To the Germans, they bled on the battlefield and came home to labor for foreigners. Socialist revolution became entwined with the revival of the nation-state.

The most important part of this as that the mixed economy has prevailed in all developed world powers. Modern people therefore ignore the reactionary socialism common to both movements, focus purely on the social values of each movement, and cherry-pick trivia and anecdotes to fit them into the right-left paradigm (IE "Soviets killed gays so they were right-wing", "Nazis were environmentalists so they were left-wing". Nonsense.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Jaay-zusss, enough with this shit. Just shut up and or hop on one of the plethora of other anti-left threads.

Sincerely,

A card carrying conservative voter.

 

[Teen Wolf]

 

[Juventud]

What's with all the right wing threads trying to character assasinate the left?

Is that all your capable of? Pat on the back threads? Talk about victim complex. Snowflakes.

 

[AviatorShades]

There's so many articles from the right fixating on the left and explaining how the left is evil and mentally ill but you don't find the equivalent from the left.

Just pure obsession and madness but the left are the mentally ill ones.

Eh? Pretty universal among humans to accuse your enemies of being insane

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/11/28/168022/-

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-entertainment/201206/conservatism-mental-illness

Which is sad because when we do encounter genuine outbreaks of mental illness (eg; antifa), we are just the boy who cried wolf.

 

[Spider Ricco]

There's so many articles from the right fixating on the left and explaining how the left is evil and mentally ill but you don't find the equivalent from the left.

Just pure obsession and madness but the left are the mentally ill ones.

You gotta be kidding

 

[spin]

 

[Limbo Pete]

Your first thoughts are of a fat topless transgender cartoon character?

"Facepalm reaction gif"

 

[Undying Poster]

You gotta be kidding

Maybe it's because I'm not frequenting enough leftist websites but I've been seeing people break down the "leftists are mentally ill" line for years and "leftism is evil, here's why"

You can't find "conservatism is a mental illness" or " conservatives are evil" the way you can find "liberalism is evil, liberalism is mental illness" and usually it's a reaction to those sayings.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

Trumpism is a mental disease

 

[Undying Poster]

Probably the only real equivalent is liberals attacking conservatives for being stupid and posting studies that show that conservatives and racists have lower IQs but again, I don't see that at a frequency comparable to conservatives saying liberalism is a mental disease.

Could be confirmation bias or something but I doubt it.

 

[Thunderflash500]

Way to step up your gif game

 

[ultramanhyata]

Maybe it's because I'm not frequenting enough leftist websites but I've been seeing people break down the "leftists are mentally ill" line for years and "leftism is evil, here's why"

Well, hopefully you're at least willing to acknowledge that leftists have weaker upper body strength.

 

[panamaican]

Yes. It is too much to say.

The way the author defines it and then argues it then all societal change since the French Revolution is leftist. If that's the standard then sure all political evils are the product of the left. But then so is all political good.

It's a crappy argument.