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There's few portions of history that are more mythologised and destorted than the second world war.

And one of the most common misconceptions, which seems to rear its head often, is the idea that the far-right German Nazi party were socialists.

'Nazi' is their short name. But the full name for the 'Nazi' party was the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" ("Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" in German).

The fact that the far-right party contained 'socialist' in the name was a rebranding gambit to draw workers away from communism and into populist nationalism.

Despite this, the populist nationalists that support the likes of Donald Trump, regularly take the opportunity to remind modern day liberal or left-leaning critics of white-supremacists and neo-nazis that 'Socialism' was included in the Nazi party name.

But if you're looking to shut down this suggestion when it next comes up, look no further than this epic Twitter exchange.

Mike Stuchbery, a teacher and writer whose passion is history, sought to correct the misconception.

This is quite a long explanation and it's a little foulmouthed. You've been warned.

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By Steve Hunley

The Knoxville News-Sentinel has apparently transformed itself into the Antifa Daily. Well late last week, the Antifa Daily published an opinion column by the City Council Movement. I doubt it was written by a committee, but apparently rather than identify a particular individual, the Antifa Daily allowed the writer to wear a mask and not for the purpose of preventing the spread of the China virus.

Ostensibly, the City Council Movement opinion piece was about participation, perhaps the one thing we can agree upon. Still, since very few readers of the Focus are fluent in socialist, much less communist, I went out and bought a Socialist to English primer and am prepared to translate the interesting parts of the column for you.

The CCM is still marveling a whole 30 persons spoke out about the need to reprioritize the spending of Knoxville taxpayers as proposed in Mayor Indya Kincannons budget. Now 30 people might constitute a big crowd for the City Council Movement, but in a city with a population exceeding 187,000, it doesnt amount to much. Still, the opinion piece calls for an equitable and moral budge; translation: we want to spend more of your money. The City Council Movement and its candidates dont like the American form of government and thinks the United States of America is a terrible place and needs to be deconstructed. The CCM criticized Indyas budget for failing to address climate change and poverty. City taxpayers are already paying a boatload of upkeep for a fleet of electric buses (which also cost a great deal more than conventional buses) and there are poverty programs galore sponsored by state and federal governments. The CCM complains Indya Kincannons budget prioritized developers and police rather than residents and social services. Translation: we want to defund and probably deconstruct the Knoxville Police Department and give more tax money away. Now, residents of Knoxville, think about what comes after that. Imagine for a moment, if you will, there is no city police department and forget that the General Assembly would likely authorize the Knox County Sheriffs Department to assume the role of policing inside the city limits. The translation of that is it would leave Knoxville residents at the mercy of predators of every variety. Sexual predators, thieves, murderers, and every kind of psychopath imaginable. Yet the City Council Movement wants to whine about societys most vulnerable members the most vulnerable members of our society would be those at the mercy of societal predators unafraid because there are no law enforcement officers to stop and catch them.

The City Council Movement talks about investing in affordable housing, social services, and social workers, making Knoxville sound like one gigantic utopian welfare state. But then again, socialism never thrives when people can lift themselves out of the mire of poverty; socialism can never thrive if people can do better and the economy is booming. Socialism absolutely requires a permanent underclass like a leech requires a host.

Indya Kincannon, nor eight out of nine City Council members werent dismissive of the community. The mayor and great majority of the city council were absolutely mindful of the overall community and simply didnt let a handful of socialists determine how to spend other peoples money. In the same literary breath, the City Council Movement complains that if constructive public comments are not taken seriously by our elected officials and yet the opinion column does recognize eight out of nine council members voted to approve the budget. I wonder what form of representative government heeds 30 people and ignores everybody else? Still, the CCM recognizes they dont constitute a majority on the council, nor do they constitute a majority of the electorate.

The column ends with a clarion call to win the five seats on the city council up for election in 2021. They refer to a progressive majority on the Council; translation: they mean a SOCIALIST majority on the council. That means Tommy Smith, Andrew Roberto, Lauren Rider, and Gwen McKenzie will likely be loaded up with opposition. David Hayes is already off and running against Tommy Smith. Seema Singh is a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist but she may not be radical enough to suit the CCM and have an opponent. We shall see just how smart some of these council members are; if they try and appease the CCM they will still face an opponent sponsored by the City Council Movement.

There are other cities in America presently run by socialists where the homeless run unfettered, relieving themselves in peoples neighborhoods and emptying their bowels in peoples yards, used needles littering parks and other public thoroughfares. The wealthy are sheltered behind gated communities. Everybody else has to contend with the paradise wrought by the socialists who have largely managed to turn once great cities into the devils playgrounds. None resemble the utopia promised by a collection of people who have never run anything.

While the City Council Movement claims they want to build a better Knoxville, a Knoxville for all, what they mean is they intend to double your taxes to build their socialist utopia, a utopia that has never been built successfully anywhere on the face of Gods earth at any time.

David Hayes, once and future candidate for the Knoxville City Council, has been posting up a storm, giving everybody the benefit of his wisdom. When a poor Black person kills another poor Black person, the blame is on our economic and political systems that trap us in poverty. The blame is on the mayor for making the choice to prioritize policing over housing and good jobs. The blame is on the greedy bosses and business owners who steal wealth from those who create it and pay poverty wages. The blame is on jails and prisons for multiplying violence instead of stopping [sic] it.

Where to begin with that one? So the individual who has murdered someone else is not at all to blame. Notice throughout all of the ultra-leftist cow-puckey spewed by people like David Hayes, there is never, ever any notion of personal responsibility. Any failure is someone elses fault. Its not hard to tell Davids understanding of economics is nil. Well pause for anybody to point to a socialist paradise here on earth. I came back after a couple of hours, a snack and a nap. I see nobody can point to any socialist paradise on earth because there isnt one and never has been.

David could end his own cycle by getting a job.

Evidently Derek Chauvin was never a good cop. Let me say I understand anyone can complain about anything at any time and that doesnt make it true. Still, there appears to have been at least 18 complaints lodged against Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd. There appears to be a pattern and how could a bad cop keep a badge, gun and some authority over others? One good friend of mine likes to say, There are people in this world who should never have power over others and Derek Chauvin appears to be precisely that kind of person.

It goes without saying, there are bad sorts in every profession; there are bad doctors, bad nurses, bad lawyers, bad social workers, bad teachers and yes, bad cops. There are, sad to say, just some plain bad people. One thing that protects some incompetents or worse in their respective professions are the one-size-fits-all protection provided by their unions. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey laid the problem right at the doorstep of unions. We do not have the ability to get rid of many of these officers that we know have done wrong in the past due to issues with both the contracts and arbitration associated with the union, Frey said.

That has also been a problem in the past with teachers, although the union hasnt been as strong in Tennessee as many other states where it is almost impossible to dismiss a terrible teacher. Unions have provided a good living to a lot of American workers throughout the years and served a purpose in stopping abuse by some businesses of exploiting workers. Yet, one-size-fits-all never works very well and there are those who never should be in a particular profession in the first place. Derek Chauvin evidently was a bad cop and his reckless disregard for the life of George Floyd confirms the worst. States ought to consider exemptions to union contracts to be able to get rid of those employees who shouldnt be protected from their own misdeeds.

The overwhelming number of men and women in blue are fine public servants and characterizing one and all as racist murderers is an example of hypocritical discrimination. Unions shouldnt stand in the way of disciplining or terminating employees who have committed genuinely wrongful acts against the people they are supposed to serve, most especially when they do exercise power over other people. Complaints should be thoroughly investigated to determine if there is any merit to them, or if they are spurious.

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Black Lives Matter is a Marxist scam. As with all totalitarian ploys, BLM uses your natural fear of social rejection to force conformity and compliance with its goals. If we buy into it, we have a lot to lose, including all individual libertiesfreedom of speech, of thought, and especially the right to a private life and private relationships.

The BLM goal should be obvious by now: conjure up enough blind conformity to create the illusion of unanimous support. Support for what? The uncontroversial slogan that black lives matter is just a tool to draw you in emotionally to its broader and more destructive agenda.

Read the BLM website and youll find lots of Marxist agendas like ending constitutional self-governance (under the guise of sustainable transformation) and taking over law enforcement to abolish the rule of law (defund the police). Its anti-Christian and anti-free markets. Its committed to disrupting the nuclear family and replacing it with collectivist forms of child-rearing. Its endgame is typical of Marxism: a power grab stoked by the illusion of mass approval through street theater.

When we get sucked in to the vortex of BLMs mass delusions, whether out of a sense of guilt or ignorance, the results are predictable. Forced confessions. Struggle sessions. The suppression of speech. Stoking of resentments. Accusations of thought crimes. Toppling historical monuments. Civilizational breakdown. Meddling in private life, especially family.

So, whats the secret of creating enough woke conformity to get to such an anti-thought point? How does a well-organized band of power-craving elitists get people to surrender the right to speak their own minds? To open the door to giving collectivist elites the raw power they crave?

Ill use the terms socialism and Marxism somewhat interchangeably. Marxists tend to refer to themselves as socialists, even if some socialists claim they arent Marxists. All are collectivists, though, with the same patterns and tendencies and agendas, some harder than others, depending on their state of evolution.

The threat of ostracism is a primal and universal human terror, and thus an extremely powerful weapon, especially when mobs enforce it. Tyrants have always been in the business of cultivating the terror of social rejection in order to control people and amass power. Sadly, most people are not consciously aware of these dynamics, and are therefore vulnerable to succumbing.

The terror of abandonment is built into our social DNA because human beings cannot survive in isolation. What we see today is a psychological operation that plays on that fear through identity politics, peer-modelling, and social contagion.

First, the propaganda media conjures up images of unanimity with a false BLM narrative. Then, anyone who doesnt buy in is smeared as a racist, at great risk of losing his or her job, status, livelihood, and now even family. Its designed to induce everyone to cave in to that primal fear of social isolation and submit to the power elites. Once society reaches a tipping point where everyone blindly succumbs, then the power grab begins, and game over.

Emotional blackmail seems to be an inherent tactic of Marxist activists as well as todays cult of wokeness. We can now see how BLM applies that tool to the daily lives of its allies.

The author of a recent New York Times op-ed writes that he fears for his life when he goes out because hes black. Hes irritated with texts of sympathy he receives from white allies because he finds their support for BLM inadequate.

The essay, titled I Dont Need Love Texts From My White Friends, offers a prescription for proving their love: threaten to ostracize any loved ones who dont get with the program. His exact words: Text: to your relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions.

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Cult experts have a term for this practice of meddling in relationships: predatory alienation. Its a form of relational aggression, straight out of Cults 101. BLM offers us other examples of mass compliance reminiscent of Jonestown.

A creepy Maoist-styled struggle session recently took place in the affluent suburb of Bethesda, Maryland where a large crowd theatrically recited a mass confession of collective white guilt. They also promised to proselytize (i.e., educate) others, leading likely to performing emotional blackmail when deemed necessary.

Weve also seen spectacles of police officers, and even uniformed military personnel, taking the knee in obedience to mobs. Corporate America from Amazon to Zoom has also drunk the Kool-Aid in fear. Even supposed Republicans like Mitt Romney and George W. Bush publicly support BLMs false claim that America is a systemically racist nation. Maybe you now have family and friends who harangue you, threateningovertly or tacitlyto shun you if you dont get with their program.

Americans should have enough sense to know that such shameful acts of submission to mobs are not about race, police brutality, or healing. They are about shifting power from the rule of law to a socialist elite who intend lawless dominion over everyone once in power. Their false narratives exploit George Floyds death as a trigger to stir up fear and loathing (in the name of love) in order to gain and consolidate power.

The emotional manipulation were seeing by Black Lives Matter reflects socialisms long pattern of isolating individuals and controlling their relationships. We can see it in socialisms history, in its policies, and especially in its tactics.

Abolishing family and religion are both old socialist rallying cries. A big part of socialisms history is its war on those primary institutions through which our most intimate relationships and our unique identities are formed. We become isolated and weakened, and more easily controlled, when separated from them. Thats the idea.

Socialist dictators like Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedog, Pol Pot, and Adolf Hitler were dedicated to the destruction of all private life, insisting that loyalty belonged only to them. Thats why the death toll of socialist systems is more than 100 million.

Whatever else socialists say they promoteequality, justice, free stuffthey have one goal: placing too much power in the hands of too few people. To undermine the power of individuals, they undermine their private relationships. Thats exactly what just about every socialist policy has done, including no-fault divorce, welfare dependency, and abortion, which wreak havoc on the family.

The victims of this brokenness naturally feel alienated. Yet they still have a need to belong to something. Socialists feed that appetite with pseudo-communities, such as contrived collectives, mobs, and, yes, its wokeness cult.

The mob mindset is a trap, a form of mental solitary confinement, an ironic form of mind rape. Why? Because mobs of wokeness do not allow for anyone to express an original thought to another human being without the risk of being smeared and isolated.

As people invest in groupthink to remain in the herd, they end up spiraling even deeper into the mental isolation, cutting off normal conversation. They soon become triggered by other points of view. BLM activists have not only taken full advantage of the fear of loneliness already inherent in our culture. They also seem intent in perpetuating the fear by stoking more divisions within private relationships.

Political correctness and identity politics have long been used as tools of agitation designed to instill groupthink and stir up that threat of loneliness. Political correctness works by inducing self-censorship, cutting off conversation and the exchange of ideas, which might lead to friendship.

People with politically incorrect ideas often confide they feel completely alone. Identity politics works by forcing people to focus only on a collective identity and collective guilt while erasing each of us as unique individuals. Both are alienating. Both empower bad actors.

Most of us have never had a chance to learn the history of how blind conformity breeds terror, and vice versa. Abject conformity led to the hellscapes of Stalins reign of terror, of Hitlers Germany. Those who submit to false confessions of white guilt can just as easily submit to such regimes because the psychological mechanism is the same: seeking the social approval they crave and avoiding the social rejection they fear.

In the end, weaponized loneliness is the fuel of socialism, as well as hardcore socialist organizations, including BLM. Recognizing and rejecting this scam is the only way to begin coming together as whole human beings.

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The deficit will explode and the stock market will crash over time.

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Financial expert and author James J. Stolze details the dangers of socialist influence on Americas finances in Participation Trophy: How the Rise of Progressive Socialism Leads to the Fall of the United States ($17.99, paperback, 9781631293351; $33.99, dust jacket, 9781631293368; $8.99, e-book, 9781631293375).

Stolze offers readers a fictional look at Americas future, influenced by his vast experience in finance and economics. He uses current events to predict what could happen in the United States if certain changes are made.

Medicare for All, Jobs Program, New Green Deal, Infrastructure and the Housing Program could cost $40-50 trillion over a decade. The massive tax increases proposed will not come close to paying for the programs. The deficit will explode and the stock market will crash over time, said Stolze.

James J. Stolze is a 30+ year finance professional, currently serving as the CFO of a very large religious organization, along with formerly managing an $8 billion investment portfolio for an insurance company. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business majoring in Economics, a Masters in Business Administration, an M.S. in Economics along with designations including Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Mortgage Banker, and Certified Real Estate Investor

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11 June 2020

The funeral for George Floyd in Houston, Texas on Tuesday came after two weeks of powerful protests against police violence, which erupted after the release of the video of his murder at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers.

Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in every state in the US, and in dozens of cities internationally. These spontaneous demonstrations, unifying protesters of every race and ethnicity, have been motivated not only by an overwhelming sense of outrage and disgust over the cops murder of an unarmed black man, but also broader anger over the brutality, injustice and inequality that pervade American society.

It is the mass experience of millions of youth and ordinary working people with the brutal American reality that underlies the explosive response to Floyds final agony.

The demonstrations have given expression to a powerful desire for fundamental change. Within this movement there are growing numbers of people who recognize that police brutality is a manifestation of deeper social ills, rooted in the economic structure of society and the extreme concentration of wealth within a small segment of the population. This growing awareness, which trends inevitably toward socialism and the explicit rejection of capitalism, frightens the ruling class. It is therefore doing everything it can to divert the mass movement toward politically manageable channels. This is the function of the racial narrative that dominates all official discussion of police brutality and the murder of George Floyd.

It is worth reviewing the different stages of the ruling classs response to the killing.

The initial response to Floyds killing was the typical cover-up of every police murder. None of the officers involved were charged or arrested. The video of his death, which went viral on social media, broke through the narrative that this was just another death in police custody and sparked an eruption of anger that had been building just beneath the surface.

After the political establishments initial shock over the response to Floyds murder, with night after night of protests, first on the streets of Minneapolis and then across the country, the ruling class responded with the full force of the state. The police beat and maimed protesters, fired volley after volley of tear gas, smoke grenades, rubber bullets, bean bags and pepper spray. Peaceful protesters were slandered as rioters and looters, and journalists were targeted for assault and arrest. More than ten thousand were arrestedmost for violating curfews set by Democratic mayorshundreds were wounded, and many killed in the course of the onslaught. The National Guard was deployed in dozens of states to aid in the repression.

The apex of the repression occurred in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump attempted to set into motion a military coup dtat. This plan failed, at least for the time being, not because of opposition from Congress (there was none), but because sections of the military feared that its premature intervention could trigger violent resistance and a civil war for which the Pentagon is not yet adequately prepared.

In this unstable situation, the Democratic Party, mainstream media and large corporations have shifted gears to the co-optation stage, seeking to reframe the issues that motivated young people and workers to turn to the streets in a manner that is more suitable to the ruling class. The role that racism plays in police violence has been amplified to drown out all other social issues.

While Floyds funeral allowed for genuine expressions of grief by his family and the public who rallied to their side, this was cynically manipulated by that section of the political establishment and black bourgeoisie that specializes in misdirecting and disarming aroused public opinion.

The Democrats presumptive presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and political huckster Al Sharpton were both given prominent billing at the ceremony to frame police violence as fundamentally a racial issue, which can be resolved with mild reforms. Neither had anything to say about the fact that President Trump and a significant section of the state had seized on the protests to prepare a coup to overthrow the Constitution.

Sharpton dishonestly claimed that if the victim in Minneapolis had been white and the cops black, there would have been no hesitation to arrest the cops and bring charges. Biden declared that Floyds murder was the outcome of systemic abuse.

If anyone represents systemic abuse, it is Biden, whose political career over a period of nearly 50 years is marked by criminality, indifference and reaction. He has operated as a major figure in the Democratic Party power structure, writing the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which escalated the mass incarceration of primarily African American men and expanded the death penalty. As Barack Obamas vice president for eight years, Biden was part of an administration that funneled billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the police and whitewashed one police killing after the next.

Rejecting calls to defund the police, Biden is instead proposing to provide $300 million in additional federal funding to reinvigorate the police and help implement limited changes such as more body cameras, a national standard for the use of force and the hiring of more minority cops. He also calls for embedding social service providers with the police when they respond to emergency calls relating to mental health, drug use or the homeless, thereby compelling social workers to operate as an arm of law enforcement.

Bidens former opponent in the Democratic Party primaries, Bernie Sanders, has taken the same position. In an interview published in the New Yorker on Tuesday, Sanders opposed calls to abolish or defund the police, instead calling for more funding and more training. In his long interview, Sanders avoided any mention of political revolution (his former campaign slogan) or the billionaire class. His positions are now indistinguishable from those of Biden.

Left out in all the commentary in the mainstream media and from the political establishment is any reference to the reality that underlies both the brutality of the police and the massive eruption of popular protests.

There is no mention of the fact that more than 1,000 people are killed by the police every year, an average of three killings every day, the majority of whom are not African American. There is no mention of the plight of Hispanic workers and others who are being rounded up by the thousands as part of Trumps fascistic war on immigrants. There is no mention of the historic level of unemployment that has gripped the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic nor of the 114,000 dead due to the murderous policies pursued by the Trump administration and state governments.

Americas endless wars and the relationship between the wars overseas and militarized police violence at home are also pushed aside. A fact that was widely understood in the 1960sthat the violence of American imperialism abroad was tied to the violence of the state at homeis ignored, along with the well documented relationship between the police, the military and the preparations for mass repression.

While it is easy for phrases such as white supremacy and systemic racism to pass through the lips of these bourgeois politicians, one word is unmentionable: capitalism. There must not be an examination of the deeper social and economic processes, the immense levels of social inequality built up over decades that have created the conditions for the death of Floyd and so many other workers like him. Instead, there are once again calls for empty reforms, which have been heard repeatedly over the last 50 years.

The aim of the Democrats and their adjuncts in the media, the pseudo-left and academia is to chloroform public opinion with platitudes about confronting white fragility and ensure that the relationship of police violence to the broader social and economic system is not raised in any significant manner. The purpose of the sophistic arguments developed by middle-class academics and now deployed by the Democrats is to absolve the capitalist system of any fault and present police violence as the outcome of an irredeemably racist societyembodied in particular in white workers.

The demonstrations of the last two weeks, which have been multiracial and multiethnic and swept through every section of the country, have blown apart the arguments that the United States is a fundamentally racist society.

Testifying before Congress yesterday, Philonise Floyd, George Floyds brother, eloquently called attention to the united and international movement that has emerged in the wake of his death: George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to the call Im making to you now, to the calls of our family, and the calls ringing out in the streets across the world. People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change.

Workers and young people must recognize that the racial narrative deployed by the ruling class does not explain anything about the fundamental problems confronting the working class in the United States and around the world.

The Socialist Equality Party seeks to connect the fight against police violence and the defense of democratic rights with an independent political movement of the entire working class against inequality, poverty, war and the capitalist system. There is a tremendous potential now for the building of a socialist movement. But the political radicalization of masses of workers and youth must be turned into a conscious revolutionary struggle for socialism.

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