| Rath said: I think you're badly misreading a correlation as causation here. There is no implication that a slide towards socialism causes hideous evil dictatorships, it seems far more to me that hideous evil dictatorships like to use the pretext of socialism to have the state claim control of the national economy. If you look at almost all of these nations that you cite you will realise that they have been taken over by a revolution and made a massive leap into socialism, not the gradual slide that you imply is happening around the world. This also invalidates your claim that the government system prevents things like Hitler from happening, it doesn't. Germany was quite far right along that line when Hitler came to power (and in actual fact Hitler never moved it left along the line - I completely disagree that Nazi Germany was socialist), Russia was quite far right along the line when the communists came to power. |
I think you need a history lesson ...
The Weimar Republic borrowed money from the United States to buy goods from the United States and printed money like crazy to stimulate their economy, and there were several restrictions on people's rights for the "greater good" (including restrictions on freedom of speech to protect the Jewish population). When their economic house of cards collapsed a crisis was formed and used by evil people to gain power through the divisive politics, and when these people gained power they used the limitations in people's freedoms to crush opposition.
Beyond that, the communists took power in Russia from the Monarchy; and unlike the constitutional monarchy in England, the Russian monarchy could hardly be called capatalist let alone right wing due to their lack of property rights or modern contract law.
