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From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nazis
Message-ID: <379@klipper.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 10:47:08 EST
Article-I.D.: klipper.379
Posted: Mon Dec  3 10:47:08 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:59:08 EST
References: <658@sjuvax.UUCP> <22400042@ea.UUCP> <6207@mcvax.UUCP> <376@klipper.UUCP> <500@uwmacc.UUCP>
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Summary: 

In article <500@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) writes:
>> 	Well, saying "It says so right there on the label" is a joke, of
>> course, but the fact is true. The Nazis wanted (and got) almost complete
>> government control, control of social life (remember what they were trying
>> to do to the churches?), etc. They are socialistic in the sense the USSR is.
>> One may refuse to call that socialistic, but left wing radical it is.
>> 
>> 	{seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep
>> 
>
>Leftists are not all totalitarian Stalinists, as you are implying.

Am I? I am saying that the Nazis and the USSR were/are left wing radical,
not that all left wing radicals (let alone all leftists) are Stalinistic.
I yielded that "socialistic" might be the wrong word (it has been used in
so many ways by now... it *is* what the first S of USSR means)
And the fact that two parties fight each other doesn't imply that at least
one of them is right wing...

I made, however, a mistake: I meant "control of industry and economy", but
typed "government control".
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							  Biep.
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