Thomas Sowell’s new book "Intellectuals and Society" is a very good read. One of the points Sowell makes is how the left somehow got away with
changing the description of the Fascist and National Socialist (Nazi)
parties from World War II from a label of “totalitarian left” to
“totalitarian right” without much debate. He describes how they are
much closer to each other than the term “far left” and “far right”
would suggest. Both the totalitarian Communist parties of the USSR
and China believed that a few smart bureaucrats in the central
government could make much better choices for the masses than the
people could make for themselves. How did the left get away with this
linguistic ploy? Sowell argues that totalitarian governments [communist (Cuba & North
Korea), socialist , military dictatorships (Franco’s Spain),
theocratic (Iran)] always end up confiscating property from one group
and giving it to another. These totalitarians also have no qualms
about suppressing freedom of speech nor managing dissidents via murder
and execution. How much totalitarian management do you want in your government?
changing the description of the Fascist and National Socialist (Nazi)
parties from World War II from a label of “totalitarian left” to
“totalitarian right” without much debate. He describes how they are
much closer to each other than the term “far left” and “far right”
would suggest. Both the totalitarian Communist parties of the USSR
and China believed that a few smart bureaucrats in the central
government could make much better choices for the masses than the
people could make for themselves. How did the left get away with this
linguistic ploy? Sowell argues that totalitarian governments [communist (Cuba & North
Korea), socialist , military dictatorships (Franco’s Spain),
theocratic (Iran)] always end up confiscating property from one group
and giving it to another. These totalitarians also have no qualms
about suppressing freedom of speech nor managing dissidents via murder
and execution. How much totalitarian management do you want in your government?
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