(05-19-2018, 11:05 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-19-2018, 09:23 PM)rollerjag Wrote: Your problem is you equate oppression, nationalism and despotic dictators who call themselves Communists so they control populations with the Left.  

They seize guns? Leftist. 

They centralize government? Leftist.

They persecute minorities, gypsies, communists, heterosexuals, academics...leftists?

Give me a freaking break. 

The Texas gunman was a defensive tackle on the football team who attended the Greek Orthodox Church. He liked music that appeals to neo-Nazis and alt-rightists.

He wasn't a leftist or righty. He was a freaking nut job.

Excerpts from The Nazi Party Platform, the official positions of the National Socialists: 

The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all. 




Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of debt (interest)-slavery. 



In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people, personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore, we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.


We demand the nationalisation of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).



We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.



We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.



We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.



We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.



We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.



We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.



The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the state must be striven for by the school [Staatsbürgerkunde] as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the state of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.



The state is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.



We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.



We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that:

a. All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race;

b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the state to be published. They may not be printed in the German language;
c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications or any influence on them and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.

 Their whole damn platform is summed up in Point 24 - "The good of the community before the good of the individual" 



So yeah, the Nazis were leftists; competition for the Communists, predecessors of the rabid American Left. Just different shades of the Left and everyone of them evil to the core.