From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 18:15:27 MDT
In reading Hayak's "The Road to Serfdom", he stresses what a
disaster it was for the Americans to lose the terminological
fight to the socialists, and allow the word "liberal" to be
adopted as describing socialistic or quasi-socialistic programs.
This, I think, is what some of our foreign correspondents on
this list have said in so many words; though I am unsure of the
exact equivalence.
He also appears to have a long chapter on the socialist component
in Nazism. Now of course, "Nazi" stands for German Nationalist
Socialist workers party, and without yet having got to what Hayek
has to say, I do note that except for the Nazis, none of the usual
suspects we associate with the right-wing---from the KKK to the
militia movements---have anything to do with socialism. Therefore,
the propriety of placing the Nazis entirely on the right wing may
be questioned. Admittedly, in their nationalism, elitism, and even
in their version of eugenics, the Nazis were right-wing; but in
their collectivism and theory of government, they were clearly
left-wing.
Lee
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