Stalin vs Hitler

In the world of binary thinkers who have had propaganda drilled directly into their heads for generations, I need to make the attempt to mitigate against knee-jerk, emotional reactions. I am by no means whatsoever a Nazi or Hitler apologist. The man and his ideology were wicked. It frustrated and made more difficult the plan of happiness, by frustrating the freedom of the people who were subject to it. And it wasn't just a peaceful plan for nationalist renewal; it was an aggressive plan that required turning other peoples into the equivalent of helots for the economy to work. The prophets of the time specifically called them out for their wickedness. No, I'm no Nazi apologist. 

However, they were not nearly as wicked as the alternative, i.e. Stalin, with whom we foolishly made alliance. Anyone who's interested in overcoming their pro-Trotskyite globalist propaganda and actually understanding the truth of historical reality and is willing to spend a couple of hours going over all of this material, is in for a real treat of eye-opening and credible alternatives to the mainstream narrative that we've been fed all our lives.

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-holocaust-denial/

https://www.unz.com/runz/the-remarkable-historiography-of-david-irving/

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-when-stalin-almost-conquered-europe/

https://www.unz.com/article/barbarossa-suvorovs-revisionism-goes-mainstream/

(And keep in mind that Ron Unz, who runs and manages the Unz review, is himself ethnically Jewish.)

As one commentator said of the last article in particular: 

"I asked one historian and expert on Operation Barbarossa about Suvorev's thesis back in 2018, and while he, too, agreed that Stalin had plans to attack Western Europe, he doesn't believe that the attack was planned for 1941 and is highly skeptical of Suvorev's case for it. But it doesn't really matter whether the attack was planned for 1941 or 1942, the conclusion is the same, as uncomfortable as it may make those who have assumed that Nazi Germany was the worstest evilist most invadery instigator that there ever was. [...] Perhaps the most significant fact may be this: the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact gave two-thirds of Poland to the Soviet Union and one-third of it to Germany, despite the fact that Germany was reclaiming a sizable amount of German territory that contained German people, while the Soviet action was pure foreign conquest.

"Of course, just to stack irony on top of irony, given the horrific state of Western Europe, it's possible that Hitler didn't save Europe by preventing Stalin from overrunning the entire continent, he left it to a worse fate by leaving it under the control of the neo-liberal world order. As awful as communism is for a nation, it's not anywhere nearly as destructive as free imports and free invasion."

As the saying goes, Nothing fails like success. Victory has defeated us. 

UPDATE: Another interesting image. Three peas in a pod, as recognized by the American Communist Party at their rally in Chicago in 1939. Lenin, Stalin and Lincoln.

Can America be saved?

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=23764

For generations now, the political system has been selecting for people who defend the interests of he system and the people in it. You cannot get a job at any level of politics unless you are useful to the people in the system. The entry points of the system, primaries, elections, staffing jobs, are all designed to filter out people who could be unhealthy for the system and select for those who will defend the system. Even if a reformer sneaks in, they are surrounded by antibodies of the system.

This is something the paleoconservative thinker Sam Francis recognized with the conservative movement a million years ago. As soon as they decided to engage in democratic politics, they would be forced to trade their conservative principles for access to the system. Otherwise, they would be shut off from the system. Over the years conservatism has traded everything away. They are now a shuffling husk that staggers long behind the Left living on scraps.

This is the inevitable crisis of liberal democracy. Those “liberal principles” that are supposed to constrain the excesses of democracy end up becoming obstacles to democratic reform. On the other hand, a genuine effort to reform the system from outside is framed as a threat to liberal principles. Trump immediately became Hitler, the great bogeyman of liberalism, solely on the grounds that he was a creature that existed outside the liberal democratic system.

That is the real lesson of the Trump years. There is no way to reform liberal democracy from the inside, as it has evolved to prevent reform. It is impossible to reform from the outside as liberal democracy is defined by opposition to outside pressure. That means the only reform possible is replacement, which requires a rejection of both liberalism and democracy as anything more than expedients. Real reform begins with the rejection of the system and its moral framework.

Personally, I doubt it. 

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/60?lang=eng

Yea, great has been your neglect towards us. And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this exceedingly great neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of your thoughtless state. Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless stupor, while your enemies are spreading the work of death around you? [...] Yea, even they who have looked up to you for protection, yea, have placed you in a situation that ye might have succored them, yea...

[...]

And I will come unto you, and if there be any among you that has a desire for freedom, yea, if there be even a spark of freedom remaining, behold I will stir up insurrections among you, even until those who have desires to usurp power and authority shall become extinct. Yea, behold I do not fear your power nor your authority, but it is myaGod whom I fear; and it is according to his commandments that I do take my sword to defend the cause of my country, and it is because of your iniquity that we have suffered so much loss. Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little ones, the asword of justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit you even to your utter destruction. Behold, I wait for assistance from you; and, except ye do administer unto our relief, behold, I come unto you, even in the land of [Washington, D.C.], and smite you with the sword, insomuch that ye can have no more power to impede the progress of this people in the cause of our freedom. For behold, the Lord will not suffer that ye shall live and wax strong in your iniquities to destroy his righteous people.

Of course, Moroni's epistle depends on there actually being people willing to stand up and fight for their country, which doesn't seem to be the case for us. I'm actually optimistic that there are, but lacking leadership, they don't know what to do or where to start. On the other hand, there's a great deal of virtue-signaling about a great deal of hoaxes in our society; those who should be fighting for the preservation of our freedoms are instead wringing their hands over the hoax of racism against black people, or celebrating the fact that tens of millions of invaders from south of the border have made us literally the victims of a massive act of war and conquest. I'm on the other hand pessimistic listening to General Conference, that seems to suggest that hunkering down and trying to preserve what righteousness we can in our families is the order of the day, and that we'll have to be delivered by the Lord if we're to be delivered at all, rather than the Lord suffering the righteous to fall so that the wicked may be judged, as Moroni alludes to..

Sigh. When I was younger, this was all very theoretical, and academic. Actually living through it and seeing it play out before my eyes to my people is infinite more difficult than I ever imagined it would be. And seeing my people willfully going to the slaughter, so to speak, blind to reality and believing in wishful thinking delusions is the most difficult part of it all.

https://www.takimag.com/article/when-fools-rule/

 

On wealth and free trade

I could say a lot about free trade and the modern science of economics. I don't pretend to be a complete expert, but I'm also not a n00b to the topic; I do have an economics degree, after all—although after that I went on to do other things with my education. I think some of the most insightful commentary on economics comes from non-economists, who are able to not get lost in the weeds and recognize that economists have done a pretty terrible job of predicting much of anything economically, and most of the calls that they've made have turned out to be completely untrue, at least at a macro level. Now, some will suggest that this is because they've let their ideology influence their interpretation of the data too much, and the data and the "correct" interpretation is still right there for anyone who's not ideologically blinded to see, and there's some merit to that. But maybe not as much as people think. And maybe, for that matter, the entire field of study is kind of missing the point. 

Many times people not of our faith are able to see things more clearly than most of the people of our faith are able to see. My first thought on reading this was to wish he'd had the greater insight from the Book of Mormon from people like King Benjamin, or other commentary here and there about the "pride cycle" which could just as easily be called the "prosperity cycle". But the fact is, that you don't need the Book of Mormon to come to those same conclusions, although it should be easier to do so if you have access to its plainer and more precious teachings. The Bible is sufficient to reach the same conclusions, however. Anyway, as with any non-LDS Christian teaching, apply the wisdom and counsel given to us in D&C 91: "There are many things contained therein that are true, ... There are many things contained therein that are not true, which are interpolations by the hands of men. ... Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth; And whoso is enlightened by the Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom;  And whoso receiveth not by the Spirit, cannot be benefited."

Much of what he says actually echoes exactly what many of the 20th century prophets warned us about, but it's interesting that that can be taken too far if we're so worried about the evils of communism, for instance, that we fail to be aware of alternative temptations sneaking up on our flanks while we're occupied looking at something else. Free trade isn't actually capitalism, especially as it's practiced in the West today, which is a kind of malicious corporate oligarchy that bears more resemblance to a corporate-government partnership to mimic socialistic ideas than it does actual free market capitalism. But because it wasn't actual communism, then communism with a fairer name was able to completely envelop us today in the West.

https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-devil-corrupts-with-free-trade-how.html

Let me quote a few sections of it, but I highly recommend that you read the entire thing at its original source.

So let me start this way: communism is one of the dumbest forms of society conceivable. Nazism is just as bad, and feminism has a higher death toll than both of those two systems combined (abortion). But communism is so obviously dumb. It impoverishes a nation, it empowers the particularly wicked to get into positions where they can do maximum damage, it centralizes mediocrity into the halls of power, and it is inevitably self-defeating. The fact that communism is so popular still in the modern world after all the damage it has done, is all the proof we need that influential elements in film, media and academia, which are all responsible for shaping minds, are in the hands of its perpetrators and their descendants. That is the only way that its teachings can continually be whitewashed in the minds of young westerners.

I say this, so there is no confusion, nothing I say in criticism today of our modern economic system comes from a place of sympathy to communism. I despise communism as much as anyone despises Nazism. I think it is horrible and disgusting we didn’t outlaw communism decades ago when we had the chance. To me Nazism and Communism are different sides of the same evil coin.

But, what is interesting is that right now many former communist countries are on the rise, and virtually every western nation is on the decline. We have nicer things, that is for sure, but there is one thing in history that is more effective at destroying a people than any political ideology: that is unrestrained wealth and greed. That is what our system has become.

In real terms the government views us all as economic beings, and we spend most of our time acting as such, and this is not good. Prosperity can be both a blessing and a curse, and the Bible warns us, desperately, about this, and one of the most famous passages about the Devil in scripture is in this very context. Because being enamoured with your prosperity is exactly the mistake the devil made.

So, today I want to speak to the evils of our free trade system, and how the Devil uses it to corrupt us. I think this is so important for us all here, especially because of our wealth, because the Bible puts a lot of focus on warning those of us at ease, how dangerous that ease can be for our souls.

It's interesting, as he points out, to read Ezekiel 27-28 with the thoughts of "how does this resemble our current economic system?" in mind? The Canaanites (Phoenicians) are often praised in our history books for their mercantilism and the innovations that they came up with that we still use heavily today in our society. Not all of them were bad, of course—the concept of money vs barter, or an alphabet are hardly bad things in their own right, but Ezekiel talks about something that sound an awful lot like free trade and the free movement of peoples that accompanies it. To me, it sounds like "the whole world in commotion" and the immediate run-up to the Bronze Age Collapse. The former ought to be very worrisome to anyone familiar with modern revelation, and the latter shoudl be very worrisome to anyone familiar with history.

Anyway, there's yet more. Again, I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing, and if you are loth to trust the word of a non-LDS Christian quoting only the Bible, think about how the principles he finds therein match quite well what we are taught from the Book of Mormon about wealth and the "pride cycle." In my opinion, the Book of Mormon is the nail in the coffin of any argument that free trade as we practice it in the modern West is a Gospel-compliant system. What was much closer to a Gospel-compliant system was what we did in America prior to the Civil War. Which, we're taught a modern mythology where the Civil War was the north righteously went to war with the South in behalf of the poor Negro, who needed his help, and was a kind of second founding of the nation without the errors of the first founding. This isn't accurate at all, however—what the Civil War really was was a corrupt system of rentiers who militarily conquered their rivals so that they could loot their economic wealth and impose their corrupt proto-oligarchic socio-economic system on them. Rather than a second founding, it was the beginning of the end for America, and the destruction of our Constitutional freedoms and system.

Anyway, that's a topic for another day. And I'm not suggesting that slavery was a good thing or should have been perpetuated, but the reality is that nobody who started or fought in the Civil War did so because of slavery. It was a post-mortem excuse thrown on the whole thing to justify to future generations why the war was fought and make the winners look like the good guys rather than the villains that they were.