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As nuke talks intensify, WH celebrates Iranian holiday

The festivities come amid tense negotiations between the White House and Tehran. President Obama hopes Iran will slow or stop its nuclear weapons program in exchange for removing economic sanctions.

First Lady Michelle Obama praised the holiday in remarks at the executive mansion Wednesday. The event featured a Persian dinner and a dance troop’s performance.

“I think it’s so fitting we’re holding this celebration here today,” Michelle Obama said. “One of the things I love about the White House is how it truly is the people’s house. It is a house that reflects the diversity of culture and traditions that make us who we are as a country. Nowruz is one of those traditions.”

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

wonderfully good in its timing, there is this:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/201314/ (there is a youtube video link there)

of course, bill whittle and Andrew klavan could be ignorant and idiotic too...


"PJTV viewer "Digging4Information" asks Andrew Klavan & Bill Whittle about Nazis and Fascists. He asks why both are presented in the media as "right-wing" when both Nazis and Fascists had socialist roots. Klavan and Whittle wonder whether nazism and fascism might be more similar to today's similar to today's progressive movement in the Democratic Party than to modern conservatism."

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

I am looking in my big fat adolf hitler book, the definitive work on him by john toland. maybe it will help to hear in hitler's own words:

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions”

pp. 224–225

looks similar to the left to me...

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Even Wiki seems more definitive than your "definitive work"

The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism", as an alternative to both internationalist Marxist socialism and free market capitalism. This required a Volksgemeinschaft or "people's community" of all Germans. It rejected the Marxist concept of class struggle, opposed ideas of equality and international solidarity, and sought to defend private property.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

one can "redefine" socialism in a variety of ways, but at its essence, its difference to Marxism notwithstanding, its still socialism and as I have pointed out before (and other "idiotic and ignorant" people agree) it is in many regards very similar to leftist ideology.

if you want to contend I am wrong, then you'd need to elucidate how the many points of the NSDAP platform I posted are indeed different from today's leftists.