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Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts
gzipped_tar writes "Fans at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival in Germany thought they were getting free T-shirts that reflected their nationalistic worldview. But after the garment's first wash they discovered otherwise. The original image rinsed away to reveal a hidden message from an activist group. It reads: 'If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism.'"
You might want to revisit your history before commenting. I wasnt trying to draw parallels to right after the war, I was trying to draw parallels to peak factory employment. Hell through the 50s and 60s Germany had so few young male workers that they had to import them "temporarily" from abroad. Thats part of how the whole immigration mess got started, at least there. From pretty much the early 50s to about 30 years ago factory jobs were plentiful, pretty much any (male) that wanted one could get one and could enter the middle class. Not to mention they were a hell of a lot more meaningful then walking around in a smock all day listening to people bitch you out.
Now unless you have an education, and sometimes even then, the # of jobs that are open to you that will provide a middle class lifestyle are almost non-existant if you dont already have one. Germanys GINI coefficient is rising, especially among the young.
Monstar L
Hilarious - how pathetic. Why don't the Left start with some rational arguments for a change, like why white people shouldn't be allowed to have their own countries any more, you know, to freely associate only with those they wish to?
Nobody on the Left can debate me. None of you morons have a clue what's really going on in the world - just look at the U.K. riots - majority black looters, destroying white society.
What you are essentially saying is that YOU should be able to decide and dictate the lives of millions of white people.
It's rather like approving of forced marriages - one party gets what they want (the man) and the other is the victim (the woman), and idiots like you approve of denying people the ability to simply GET AWAY from people we don't want to associate with.
If you can't choose who you associate with, then you are either a slave, or in a giant concentration camp, or both. And you 'holier than thou' idiots approve of this.
When Hitler got his real power in government, the brownshirts demanded that he actually follow through and implement the social portion of his national socialist program. Of course he had no plans on doing this, resulting in the "Night of the Long Knives".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Not to mention that nationalism is antithetical to socialism because it creates divisions among the proletariat by national lines, thus weakening it by division and mixing it with the class enemy of capitalists. This absurdity, when the whole point is to unite the proletariat and make those divisions purely on class lines.
So, no, the viewpoint was not socialist. They may have had some social programs in there, but there's not a shred of Marx to be found.
I'm going to repost a few quotes from Alan Greenspan back in 1966. Basically, all our current societal problems are ancillary to our current fiat monetary system. The US Dollar has been the world reserve currency of choice. But any economist worth his/her salt knew the system was unstable and would eventually implode. And it did. We (the US) was a giant star that just imploded into a black hole. All other nations are getting drawn to the event horizon as a result. Really, the global depression is the fault of US fiscal policy and the vast debt we've accumulated.
It was only a matter of time before nations such as China, India, and Africa started producing and exporting products cheaper once their governments reformed. Now that they have, the US and the rest of the west is hemorrhaging wealth. We cannot fix our problem with trickle-up or trickle-down policies. That's because we are (and have been) facing a *trickle-out* of wealth. Both conservatives and liberals do not yet understand this. They're fighting over government concepts and policies that are now moot to the real issue at hand. It's also because of the fiat system in place that we have huge gaps in wealth between the rich and poor. The very policies used to answer class-warfare in fact are the very enablers of that behavior.
While I don't agree that we should be exclusively on the Gold Standard again, we do need to tie our system back to stuff more tangible. Until that happens, this perfect storm we are all in will only continue to leave a path of misery in its wake.
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966
“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” -Alan Greenspan
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -Alan Geenspan
"under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation" -Alan Greenspan
Life is not for the lazy.