The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38903   Message #553359
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-Sep-01 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Attacks on Arab-Americans Must Stop!
Subject: Nazism / National Socialism
There's a big difference between Nazism and the neo-Nazis. Under his system, Hitler was able to take over a very civilized country and govern it quite effectively for 13 years - and a major reason for that effectiveness was his personality and intelligence. That being the case, I think you could validly call Nazism a "system of government." Neo-Nazism is certainly a political movement, and a very frightening one - but it has shown no signs that it could actually govern a nation.

And yes, I stand firm on my contention that the world can still produce a movement as terrible as Nazi Germany - but not the same as Nazi Germany. As the events of last week have shown, we have not conquered evil.

-Joe Offer-