Tom Ritchford
1 min readFeb 19, 2022

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The full quote: "Quite obvious that almost all dictatorships were left-wing. Even Nazi Germany called itself socialist and had many socialist features that mirrored the times."

Of course he doesn't name any.

And where's this Nazi socialist propaganda you talk about? Let's see it!

Where did the Nazis say "Workers control the means of production?" In fact, the Nazis immediately outlawed unions!

Where did they say, "Religion is the opiate of the masses?" When were they anything other than capitalist?

The summary of the article is this: "I agree with a terrorist and mass murderer that leftists are self-hating people with a need for power." What sort of psycho enlists the Unabomber's ideas for moral support?

And why does the article make me angry?

I was born in London just seventeen years after World War 2. My grandfather spent years in a Fascist PoW camp.

In the city I live in today, there are plaques all over the city including on my block to our citizens who were dragged from their homes and murdered by the Nazis simply because they were Jewish or Gypsy or Communist or Socialist. (We have a socialist government here, now, by the way, and it's been very successful.)

So when this chucklehead recruits the Unabomber and then friggen Hitler in his crusade against the left--Hitler, a literal Fascist, Hitler whose Nazis slaughtered people on the left by the millions, including my neighbors-- yes, it's absolutely personal to me.

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