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(1) The problem is when one divides the field in left and right and takes sides.
1st, because there is no such thing as Left or Right.
I've been pissed more the last two weeks. Jumping on several.
- (2) 2nd, because in so doing on falls pray to the pre-eminence of ideology touted by the French sociologues. A disease of he mind.
- (3) Traditionally, in the English House of Parliament, government party sits at the right of the Speaker, and the opposition, to the left.
- (4) The socialists sat on the left so long, it stuck, so even when they finally became the governing party, continued to be called the left.
- (5) And by extention so were all socialists begun to describe themselves. So it was kind of easy. Instead of referring to
- (6) the Government and opposition, it became a label for Socialists and anybody else who wasn't. Until the mid 1900s.
- (7) Enter Benito Mussolini. Notice his given name is not Italian. It would have been Benedetto. He was named after Benito Juarez of Mexico
- (8) by the admiring Mussolini Sr. a Marxist of the 1st International and acquaintance of Marx. He groomed Benito as a full blown Marxist.
- (9) Young Mussolini was an active member of the Politburo of the Socialist Party of Italy and, for +-16 years, editor of its publications.
- (10) It was in the Socialist party where they started calling him "il Duce" loosely translated as "the Boss" or leader. Until Benito figured
- (11) That Socialism needed a reform. There was no need to nationalize the means of production. They could be regulated instead.
- (12) So he imagined a form in Socialism planted on "Unions" of workers, industrialists and workers who, under the direction of a National
- (13) Labor Board, would achieve "Social Peace" through "Social Justice". Every worker would get health benefits, vacation time and a
- (14) retirement pension. And a minium salary, established through colective bargaining sessions between the "unions" that represented
- (14) the universe of a particular sector of the economy (auto makers, restaurants, doctors, lawyers...) under the watchful eye of the
- (15) National Labor Board. If any of this sounds familiar, is bacause Roosevelt and the US Progressives took their cues from Italian Fascism
- (16) But I digress. The unions were called "Fascio", hence the name Fascism derived from Unionist Socialism.
- (17) All of this was carefully laid out in a lovely document called "Carta di Lavoro" not easy to find, but out there in the web.
- (18) If you can't find it, let me know and i'll translate it for you. Lenin lamented the departure of young Benito as an irreparable loss
- (19) to the cause of International Socialism. "With him we could have had Italy." Mussolini's brand of Socialism caught on and, of course,
- (20) the first thing he did was clear other socialists off the field, much like the Bolsheviks did with the Mencheviks in Russia.
- (21) This some idiots point to claiming he was against socialism. He wasn't. He was agains anybody but him claiming the mantle of socialism.
- (22) The same happened with Hitler, who created a third form of Socialism, mixing int with Bohemian nationalism, hence National Socialism.
- (23) Mussolini, who was actually quite intelligent, despised Hitler. After their first meeting describes him as an imbecile who sounds like
- (24) "a broken gramophone. Jews here, Jews there, can't he talk about anything else!" The story of WWII, you know. After the war, Soviet
- (25) propaganda went overdrive to distance the "good" Socialism -- Stalin's if you can believe that! -- from "bad" socialism, Hitler's and
- (26) Mussolini's. Painting them as "extreme right wing", that is, of all things, capitalist pigs. Roosevelt, himself a full blown Fascist
- (27) and Truman, who could not distance himself from Roosevelt, let it be. So Nazism and Fascism stopped being Socialism to become...
- (28) right wing Capitalism courtesy of Soviet propaganda and the apathy of our own American fascists. Hayek warned us about this in the 50s
- (29) But nobody gave a crap. And under Roosevelt's protection, hundreds of Marxist scholars who lost the tug of war with Hitler and
- (30) Mussolini came to our Universities and trained two generations of intellectual morons committed to the destruction of our free society.
- (31) We are now well into the third. Are they left? Are they right? Paraphrasing the Bard, A turd, by any other name would smell as foul.
- (32) So, I really do not give a flying cucumber if someone calls himself left, right, center, eccentric or Madelaine.
- (33) It is a struggle between Liberty and slavery. A Free Society or Metropolis. It is ideas that concern me, not labels.
- (34) If someone thinks that proclaiming themselves in favor or against a party or a politician means anything to me, they are mistaken.
- (35) I am neither left nor right. I am a 17th generation American who shites red , white and blue and loves the founding principles of our
- (36) beautiful shining light upon the worlds tallest mountain more than life. The rest is blather. FINIS
