4-12-04

Totalitarian?

We had an argument of sorts with a guy via e-mail. He claimed that Nazi Germany was "totalitarian." We asked this fellow: how can a person own:

-- a house
-- land
-- a business
-- a handgun [with a permit]
-- a car

in a totalitarian country? You could own those things in Nazi Germany -- although granted, those items were more regulated in Nazi Germany than in modern America. But how ironic that a person can't own a handgun at all in many European countries today.

Communism is totalitarian. Communist governments control and own everything. But Fascism -- the Italian/South American kind [1] and the Nazi kind -- is merely authoritarian, not totalitarian. The state does not own/control everything in an authoritarian country. Nonetheless, Jewish and leftist journalists, screenwriters and filmmakers have done a good job of convincing the Western public otherwise. It is in their best interests to make Nazi Germany into something that it was not.



[1] e.g. Chile, Argentina, 1970s



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