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T<\/span>he American Left\u2019s most favorite lie is that Nazis and Fascists were conservatives. They were not; instead, they were cut from the same socialist cloth that America\u2019s Left idolizes and increasingly personifies. The reason for the Left\u2019s false equation of Nazis and Fascists with conservatism is that America\u2019s Left needs it to advance their ends \u2014 and, as in the case of Democrats\u2019 Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner\u2019s Nazi tattoo, they want America to ignore the obvious.<\/p>\n

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It is difficult to single out one lie from the American Left\u2019s myriad. The one proclaiming that this time they can make socialism work \u2014 despite it failing in every other attempt and in every time in every other place \u2014 is certainly useful. The one promising that giving all power to the state will somehow make people freer comes in handy, too.<\/p>\n

However, the lie America\u2019s Left tells with the most relish and gusto is that Nazis and Fascists come from the Right of the political spectrum rather than from within the Left\u2019s own ranks. They say this because, in addition to needing<\/em>\u00a0it to be true, America\u2019s Left so\u00a0want<\/em> it to be true. Of course, as with the rest of the American Left\u2019s myriad of lies, it is not only not true but demonstrably false.<\/p>\n

It is a historical fact that Nazis and Fascists were socialists. In the case of \u201cNazi,\u201d simply look at its etymological root. It is short for \u201cNationalsozialist,\u201d itself short for the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeitpartei (NSDAP), which translates to National Socialist German Workers\u2019 Party.<\/p>\n

However, the connection is much stronger than the name alone. The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises writes in his 20th-century\u00a0monograph,\u00a0Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis<\/em>: \u201cMarxism and National-Socialism agree in \u2026 rejecting the capitalist social order. Both desire a socialist order of society. The only difference in their programme (sic) lies in slight variations in their respective pictures of the future socialist State.\u201d Continuing: \u201cIt is important to realize that Fascism and Nazism were socialist dictatorships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically addressing the Fascists, von Mises writes: \u201cFascism\u2026 was a variety of Italian socialism \u2026 Nobody could surpass Mussolini in Marxian zeal. He was the intransigent champion of the pure creed.\u201d\u00a0 And on the Nazis: \u201cThe philosophy of the Nazis, the German Nationalist Socialist Labour Party<\/em>, is the purest and most consistent manifestation of the anti-capitalistic and socialist spirit of our age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Socialism is the historical origin of both the Nazis and the Fascists, and socialism is the economic aim of both: state control of the means of production. This origin and end entail not just more power to the state, but ultimately all<\/em> power to the state. If you control production and distribution of resources, what other meaningful power exists, and what meaningful counterweight exists to the power of the state?<\/p>\n

Of course, the American Left\u2019s parry to definitive history and fact will be: \u201cBut Nazis and Fascists were only self-proclaimed socialists, not real ones.\u201d Yet this is a strange argument against self-profession from a Left that believes that gender itself is self-professed and can be unilaterally reassigned and redefined.<\/p>\n

The contrast of the origin and goal of Nazis and Fascists with those of conservatives and conservatism is stark. After all, conservatism is primarily \u201cconservative\u201d when it comes to the power of the state: Conservatives want the state to have less.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s liberals, in contrast to the classical definition of \u201cliberalism\u201d (freedom of the individual), are \u201cliberal\u201d primarily regarding the power of the state: Liberals want the state to have more.<\/p>\n

Then why do America\u2019s Left make the false equation of Nazism and Fascism with conservatism? Because they need an enemy that appears more evil than they are. They need a threat so great that it justifies their most extreme actions.<\/p>\n

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The evidence that the American Left\u2019s actions are becoming more extreme is demonstrated almost daily.\u00a0 Antifa (a shortened version of \u201canti-fascist\u201d) has long existed and espoused violent confrontation. The administration finally designated\u00a0it a domestic terrorist organization last year.<\/p>\n

The American Left is also becoming more visible in embracing confrontation. The Democratic Socialists of America are openly organizing \u201cRed Rabbit\u201d squads for militant action. As the\u00a0City Journal\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Stu Smith recently\u00a0reported: \u201cIn practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting \u2018fascists\u2019 with umbrellas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such efforts are well past the American Left\u2019s suppression of opponents through a \u201ccancel culture.\u201d\u00a0 And they are not new. In 2020, a UAW chapter \u00a0a 14-page \u201cRed Rabbits National Training\u201d agenda outlining that effort\u2019s basic points.<\/p>\n

The American Left needs non-democratic actions and outright coercion to implement a system that is not supported by the majority of Americans. Freedom, markets, capitalism: All are organic; they are what will arise if people are left to themselves.<\/p>\n

Without a conjured enemy, socialism \u2014 the taking from individuals to give to the state under the pretext of giving to society \u2014 clearly stands as the enemy to human freedom it is. If socialism is allowed to stand in isolation and appear in its true form, it will be opposed.<\/p>\n

Socialists know this. Just as they know that they want to wield that power. They do not want to take power from any form of state, but to aggrandize it and then wield it themselves. What von Mises observed globally in the 20th century \u2014 \u201cDictatorship and violent oppression of all dissenters are today exclusively socialist institutions\u201d \u2014 is no less true in today\u2019s America. Organized, premeditated, recurring violence comes overwhelmingly from America\u2019s Left.<\/p>\n

The American Left\u2019s favorite lie is also at the core of their favorite ploy. They love to accuse others of being what they themselves are. Again, Graham Platner is a case in point. The Left\u2019s Antifa run around violently proclaiming themselves against fascists; the Democrats\u2019 Maine Senate nominee sports a Nazi tattoo, about which the Left is silent except to make excuses\u00a0(months ago,\u00a0Politico<\/em>\u00a0said\u00a0it \u201cappears similar to a Nazi symbol\u201d) for Platner\u2019s obvious physical display.<\/p>\n

The American Left does so because charging others with their own crimes leads to moral relativism, which serves to absolve them of their wrongs. By charging everyone with the Left\u2019s own crimes, then all are guilty. Under such an assumption of shared guilt, we become enmeshed and lost in arguments of degrees<\/em>\u00a0of supposed guilt rather than focusing on the\u00a0actual<\/em> guilt. And the biggest beneficiaries of such semantics are those who are most guilty: America\u2019s Left.<\/p>\n

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J.T. Young is the author of the recent book,\u00a0Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America\u2019s Socialist Left,<\/em>\u00a0from\u00a0RealClear Publishing. <\/em>Follow him on\u00a0Substack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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