Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis

I can't imagine how much money you've earned playing poker with those mind reading skills of yours. Amazing.

 

Yes in practice it was certainly anything but. Nazi Germany was the poster boy of a heavily bureaucratic centralized government.

Their state mandated pricing schemes is what led to Hitler needing war to stay in power. Without it, Germany was headed the way of Venezuela and all other leftist utopias.

 

Does it take mind reading to remember who the Russians were fighting?

 

Yes, the differences between the various totalitarian models are irrelevant to people who are trapped underneath the leviathan states.

"Whenever Hobsbawm enters a politically sensitive zone, he retreats into hooded, wooden language, redolent of Party-speak. "The possibility of dictatorship," he writes in The Age of Extremes, "is implicit in any regime based in a single, irremovable party." The "possibility"? "Implicit"? As Rosa Luxemburg could have told him, a single irremovable party is a dictatorship. Describing the Comintern's requirement in 1932 that German Communists fight the Socialists and ignore the Nazis, Hobsbawm in his memoirs writes that "it is now generally accepted that the policy...was one of suicidal idiocy." Now? Everyone thought it criminally stupid at the time and has thought so ever since—everyone, that is, except the Communists."
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life, by Eric Hobsbawm, Pantheon, 2003. Reviewed by Tony Judt. 11/20/2003.