A report about one more attack by Golden Dawn against gay people in Athens’ Kerameikos Square was surfaced today.
Two days ago a brief history of Golden Dawn in English was published by Augoustinos Zenakos in the blog “Reports From the Edge of borderline Democracy”
425.000 Greek voters sided with a neonazi political party in the last election. Though Golden Dawn is implicated in a surge of violent attacks, and while its views range from the ridiculous to the downright racist, its popularity is rising by the day. What exactly is Golden Dawn, where does it come from, what is its true nature? What is the extent of their relationship to the police? And who are the people that vote for them?
Read the rest on “Reports From the Edge of borderline Democracy”
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Germany was hopelessly broke when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 . The Treaty of Versailles (le Traité de Versailles) had imposed crushing reparations on the German people, demanding that Germans repay every nation’s costs of the war. These costs totaled three times the value of all the property in Germany.
Private currency speculators caused the German currency to plummet, precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times. A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread. The national treasury was empty. Countless homes and farms were lost to speculators and to private Zionist controlled banks. Germans lived in hovels. They were starving.
Nothing like this had ever happened before – the total destruction of the national currency – German mark, plus the wiping out of German’s savings and businesses. On top of this came a global depression. Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery under international bankers until 1933, when the National Socialists came to power. At that point the German government thwarted the international bankers by issuing its own money. International bankers responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.
Adolf Hitler began a national credit program by devising a plan of public works that included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.
The projected cost of these various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency. To pay for this, the German government (not the international bankers) issued bills of exchange, called Labor Treasury Certificates. In this way the National Socialists put millions of people to work, and paid them with Treasury Certificates.
Under the National Socialists, Germany’s money wasn’t backed by gold which was owned by the international bankers. It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government. Adolf Hitler said, “For every mark issued, we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done, or goods produced.” The government paid workers in Certificates. Workers spent those Certificates on other goods and services, thus creating more jobs for more people. In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed on them by the international bankers.
Within two years, the unemployment problem in Germany had been solved, and Germany was back on its feet. It had a solid, stable currency, with no debt, and no inflation, at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries controlled by international bankers were still out of work. Within five years, Germany went from the poorest nation in Europe to the richest.
Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, despite the international bankers’ denial of foreign credit to Germany, and despite the global boycott. Germany succeeded in this by exchanging equipment and commodities directly with other countries, using a barter system that cut the private bankers out of the picture. Germany flourished, since barter eliminates national debt and trade deficits. Today Venezuela does the same thing today when it trades oil for commodities, plus medical help, and so on.
Can you please somehow support your claims of Germany richness with some data?
Anyway, while it is true there was “economic growth” in the capitalist sense of the word, we must realise several things.
1) It was from very important part based on slave work of milions in the work camps which needed very cruel dictatorship to be sustained.
2) From the very beginning nazi economy success was based on weapon industry. That is obviously a capitalist bubble and the worst of all. In order to valorize weapon economy, you have to use the weapons to steal the value of somebody else. At first there was the armament of monstrous security aparatus running the labour camps inside Germany. The next step for the expanding weapon industry had to be “foreign markets” i.e. war.
Not only this terrible war derailed the whole world economy for many years, in the end it brought oblivion to Germany and German people itself. Because every bubble bursts once.
3) As far as I know, many big capitalists warmly supported nazi empire – enjoying cheap workforce there, with unions banned. Examples might be IBM, creating computers to help with Jew and Roma genocide, or Coca Cola, who started to make Fanta in Germany.
Venezuela is something very different from nazi Germany, I must clearly state that, while it doesn’t mean I want to celebrate Chavez.
It is clear we need to get rid of capitalism, which doesn’t mean only banks, however. And definitely not only Zionist banks.
We need change. Changing neoliberal capitalism for even more cruel nazi one is however not the way.
Spot on Leftway!
Whilst I agree with Leftway against NALLIAH THAYABHARAN’s clever defence of the utter stupidity of Nazism, Thaybharan inadvertently shows a contradiction in the logic of those who only criticise the banks and the bankers, a criticism which already 80 years ago was recuperated into National Socialism.
Namely this:
the contradiction between industrial and finance capital is far too often seen as THE fundamental conflict. This support for industrial capital – and for some aspects of a peasant economy as well, defined within the present organisation of production – is the dominant ideology of many of the current social movements, even if most lead to either Keynesianism or a Leninist form of state capitalism or social democracy or combinations of all 3, rather than fascism.
This conflict was the basis of socialism’s ability to co-opt past revolutionary movements (it was also the main idea behind the movie Wall Street). In rightly attacking finance capital as money producing money, as fictitious capital (though even finance capital needs some productive base), and the power of fictitious capital to destroy whole nations if it needs to, it tends to assert the notion that industrial capital, or at least capital that produces things, is rational, and isn’t even ‘capital’ at all. And, with Golden Dawn and ideologists of nazism like THAYABHARAN, dominant leftist ideology still tends to support some idea of the Nation as against globalised finance (Chavez is a good example). And, of course, National Socialism also based its ideology on this idea. The Jews were REPRESENTED as the epitome of finance capital, even though the vast majority had nothing in common with the Rothchilds of this world (pre-WWll most Jews were working class or petit-bourgeois). Hence the Jews had to be physically exterminated in order to believe that they were concretely eradicating what the Jews were made to represent – the irrationality of finance capital.
Whilst the vast majority of those in the movements contesting the current forms of hierarchical power have nothing in common with Nazism or the cop-backed Golden Dawn, most of them share, in their simplistic reductionism and opportunism, this in common with Nazi demagogy: they both refuse to oppose commodity and hierarchical relations as such, conveniently reducing the enemy to a particular aspect of capital exclusively. And it wouldn’t be surprising if, long term, quite a few those involved in current social movements were to be so blinded by their hatred of specifically American or EU capital as to support wars against these current dominant multinational powers – some even by China.
We can see how the masses of German individuals following Hitler ended up: cannon fodder, their friends and relatives dead or reduced to intense poverty, whole cities raised, etc.etc. If there are increasing amounts of Greeks who still see their fate as being resolved within some NATIONAL solution that’s because they have been crushed by the false choice of different nationalist “realisms” offered by external authority: Golden Dawn, the current government, Syriza…
The only real chance of an exit from all this is “unrealisticaly” international. Greeks must stop being proud to be Greek (just as the Germans should never have subsumed their individuality and desire for community under the fictitious notion of belonging to a fixed territory ruled hierarchically – the nation) but begin to take some self-pride in contributing to a movement whose content, aim and inspiration is an international community.
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