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Thread ID: 3697 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2002-11-26
2002-11-26 06:27 | User Profile
This isn't just another one of those "Nazis, Commies - same thing" columns that neos reliably crank out twice a year or so....it's a Glazov column on that topic! Of course, it's nothing more than Der Good Doktor's snarling doggerel designed to stick-poke you into waving your made-in-Malaysia miniature American flag on cue and reflexively support both Bush's pork-abstaining war machine and his Orwellian surveillance of his own countrymen. You are never never never to connect the dots as to WHY all these things have happened and are now "necessary" to our "security". Why that would make you a godless America-hating Chomskyite Stalinist monster, with the added Crackerjacks prize of "anti-semite" to glue onto your forehead. They put that exact same prize in every box they ship , you know.
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Neo-Nazism, Canadian Nationalism, and the Common Denominator By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | July 11, 2001
ONE OF THE MOST UNNERVING phenomena in our world today continues to be the inability of anti-American cliques to accept the historical truth about communism. For the sake of remaining faithful to their political ideology, these cliques engage in gulag denial. In my recent article for Frontpage Magazine, Canadian Nationalismââ¬â¢s Cold War Reckoning, I demonstrated how gulag denial has, like a parasite, found its host in Canadian nationalism. Because Canadian nationalists have never found a way to express or define their patriotism except through strident anti-Americanism, many simply do not have the intestinal fortitude to face the truth about the Cold War. As a result, many Canadian nationalist "histories" about Canada in the Cold War excoriate American behaviour, while they leave Joseph Stalin somewhere in the footnotes. Because of this reality, Canadian nationalists share a common bond with neo-nazis.
In working so diligently to wipe out the historical truth about communism, Canadian nationalists find themselves in the same company as leftwing radicals who, till this day, are mirror images of neo-nazis. Both groups, after all, deny the crimes that their heroes perpetrated against humanity in the name of an imaginary utopia.
Leftwing gulag denial shares a profound affinity with neo-nazi holocaust denial. This is no surprise, since nazism and socialism are closely related. Nazism wasnââ¬â¢t termed "National Socialism" without reason. Aside from both ideologies supporting state control of the economy, nazism and socialism also emphasize struggle and revolution for the sake of bringing about an apocalyptic end to the present phase of world history. Rejecting the world they live in, socialists envision class utopia, while nazis dream of racial utopia. This explains why both systems subordinate the individual to the state and rely upon an elite party, organized in military style, to achieve their objectives. In the end, the socialist and nazi visions demonize ââ¬â necessarily ââ¬â a certain portion of the human race. Mass genocide is the logical outcome of both ideologies, since humans must be sacrificed in the name of a transcendent humanism.
It becomes understandable why holocaust and gulag denial are so closely related. In denying that the genocide of Jews occurred, neo-nazis perpetuate anti-Semitism. By erasing historical memory, holocaust denial gives birth to moral relativism. The moral relativist mindset, in turn, yields the possibility of yet another holocaust, since it normalizes anti-Semitism. Holocaust denial is, therefore, simply the craving for another holocaust.
The same goes for gulag denial. When you deconstruct the arguments of leftists who try to downplay communist genocide, you find the desire for more genocide. The causes of gulag denial, in other words, are directly rooted in the causes of the gulag itself. Socialists must wipe out the historical memory of the gulag, because that way another gulag becomes possible.
Is it really any wonder, therefore, that the rhetoric of holocaust deniers and holocaust perpetrators is always the same? When you dissect the vocabulary of neo-nazi holocaust deniers, you find that they consistently refer to the "Jewish conspiracy," that pathological fantasy which visualizes the Jewish control of the media and the banks, the Jewish assault on "culture," the Jewish poisoning of the Aryan race etc. But this is nothing new. We've heard it all before: in Mein Kampf, and in the terminology of the Nazi spokesmen who engineered Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald.
So too, "progressive" leftists who deny the communist holocaust incessantly talk about "equality" and, more frighteningly yet, about the perfectibility of human institutions and of the human race. But this language isnââ¬â¢t original; weââ¬â¢ve heard it all before: in the works of Karl Marx, and in the speeches pronounced or written by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot ââ¬â those mass murderers who liquidated millions of people on the altar of class equality.
It is the greatest tragedy of Canadian nationalism that it shares a bond with gulag denial and, therefore, with neo-Nazi holocaust denial. In considering the ties that bind fascists and leftists, Canadian nationalists might want to reconsider the wisdom of wiping out historical memory. Slowly, but surely, they will have to confront the final verdict on the Cold War ââ¬â and that verdict, substantiated by so many revelations from the Soviet archives and former Soviet officials, tells us that the Soviet Union was what Ronald Reagan had the integrity and courage to say it was. And until Canadian nationalists concede the true nature of the evil empire, and admit that the Americans were the good guys in the Cold War, they will remain members of a criminal family that includes the worldââ¬â¢s vilest scoundrels and moral degenerates.
Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Soviet Studies. He is the author of 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist and of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchevââ¬â¢s Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002). Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.
2002-11-26 13:58 | User Profile
Wow, Jamie-poo gets everyone he hates into this stew, doesn't he? Let's see.....
Everyone who dissents from the Official Jewish Version of history (Jews were not Bolshevikmurderers and Hitler murdered millions in "gas chambers", thereby making them unique victims in all of history) is a Gulag-Denier.
Gulag-Deniers are Nazis.
Canadians (plus everyone else that gives Jamie a wedgie) are Gulag-Deniers.
Therefore Canadians (plus everyone else who gives Jamie panty-knots) are Nazis.
Or something like that.