Margaret Sanger never advocated for or promoted abortion.

[j brown's body]

Yep. They had a choice between Nazism or communism. They saw what communism was doing to the USSR, so they chose Nazism. Author Victor Klemperer lived in Nazi Germany and then in East Germany after the war, so he experienced both. His view was they weren't much different as far as he could tell.

He could own private property in Nazi Germany.

 

[aociswundumho]

He could own private property in Nazi Germany.

Sure, unless the Nazis wanted it.

There were no private property rights in Nazi Germany. The courts were completely controlled by the Nazis.

 

[j brown's body]

Hitler's view of Socialism.

"‘Socialism’, he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, ‘is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.

‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic."

Link

 

[j brown's body]

Sure, unless the Nazis wanted it.

There were no private property rights in Nazi Germany. The courts were completely controlled by the Nazis.

The Nazis didnt reputiate private property. The Communists did.

 

[aociswundumho]

The Nazis didnt reputiate private property. The Communists did.

Many versions of socialism do not repudiate private property. For example, democratic socialism does not, which is why you won't hear AOC calling for state control over the entire US economy. The Nazi government only existed for 6 years before the war, and every year state control over the economy increased. At the end they were even collectivizing agriculture, just like Lenin did.

 

[j brown's body]

Many versions of socialism do not repudiate private property. For example, democratic socialism does not, which is why you won't hear AOC calling for state control over the entire US economy. The Nazi government only existed for 6 years before the war, and every year state control over the economy increased. At the end they were even collectivizing agriculture, just like Lenin did.

My comment is in reference to your post about the difference between living in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.

One notes that after the war, liberal parties won control of states like Italy and France for the simple reason that the conservative parties were too taited by their associations with the Nazis.

 

[weaver2]

When they spoke of race in the 19****in20s they spoke of the human race? XD. Sorry thats too stupid for me to ignore.

Seriously, the eugenics movement was an impossibly and hopelessly idealistic movement when it first started. There were grandiose plans for improving all of humanity. It was based on a faulty understanding of Gregor Mandel's experiments with the genetic characteristics of pea plants and treated social, psychological and medical problems as genetically based claiming that with the correct breeding they would improve the "whole human race". That phrase is in parenthesis because it was frequently used by the movement. Sanger who was so appalled and distressed by the plight of the poor was desperately interested in improving these lives and embraced eugenics enthusiastically as the solution. She used the term frequently in her extensive writings. The whole movement was doomed to eventually morph into exactly the kind of nationalistic bigotry and terror of the Nazis and American bigots.

Mental retardation was one example of the movements misinterpretation of genetics. The problem was actually social and biological not genetic. The rampant alcoholism of the late 19th century and early 20th century produced large numbers of children with the reduced IQ of fetal alcohol syndrome. No amount of correct breeding would end mental retardation if the consumption of alcohol stayed the same. Another characteristic they believed could be eliminated by correct breeding was poverty; better wages were never considered. As I said, it was a hopeless movement, but it did think it could improve the whole of humanity.