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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

So what? They were measures put in place by the oligarchy to release pressure. If you simply google 'FDR save capitalism' you find endless stuff about how his goal and accomplishment was to save capitalism.

Actual fascists and populists saw right through the New Deal at the time. They were half measures meant solely to pacify the population.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The Nazi press enthusiastically hailed the early New Deal measures:

America, like the Reich, had decisively broken with the "uninhibited frenzy of market speculation." The Nazi Party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, "stressed 'Roosevelt's adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies,' praising the president's style of leadership as being compatible with Hitler's own dictatorial Führerprinzip" (p. 190).

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know and it changes nothing that the Germans were diplomatic. I'm referring to those inside America who opposed capitalism like Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Francis Parker Yockey etc. not the Third Reich that were trying to not be sanctioned to death and have their cities firebombed.

There's also this Goebbels interview with an American

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Famously as well that's the interview where the photo was taken of goebbels allegedly scowling after having just being told the person photographing him was Jewish. Total bullshit of course he has the same stern expression during the entire interview as he does in the photo but people still share it on Facebook or quora 80 years later as if it's true.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Liberals are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom 'I think, therefore I am.' Liberals do not think, yet they are.