Dear Editor,

Recently I saw a sticker in one of the local “teachers unions representatives” rear car window stating: “I love to hate everything that the right-wing loves.” Once you understand the historical origin of the terms “right-wing” and “left-wing” you’ll realize that the statement is nonsensical!

How do Fascism and Socialism differ?

To answer this, we first need to establish exactly what we mean by the term Fascist! The term is probably one of the most common terms utilized to brand one’s political enemies and has been aggrandized to epic proportion by the popular culture. While most who employ it know extraordinarily little about fascism, they understand that it has “negative connotations”. The term has become automatically weaponized, primarily, by the left to describe, well, basically anyone they do not agree with. However, some on the right, have also succumbed to the temptation too.

In truth, its misuse demonstrates the high level of political illiteracy. Some radical left-wing groups, like Antifa, even have it embedded in their name: “antifascism.” Yet it shouldn’t surprise anyone that few of these people have actually bothered to read Karl Marx and Frederick Engels “Communist Manifesto” or Giovanni Gentile, fascism’s intellectual overseer. This deficit of knowledge results in a charade of concept and language manipulation, making the general population vulnerable emotional reaction and deception.

Note: Gentile, Marx, and Engels were all influenced by three sources, namely German idealist philosophy (Immanuel Kant & George Friedrich Hegel), French socialism (i.e. Voltaire) and the English and Scottish political economist.

What is the pivotal lie of the authoritarian state?

One of the authoritarian left’s biggest lies — is that fascism and socialism are in ‘competition’ for power, so they are somehow, someway on different sides of the political spectrum. Factual reality and logic destroy this infamous historical canard with two main issues.

(1) competing groups can easily have the same ideology.

(2) fascists and socialists operate in the same manner to the point that there is a myriad of similarities between the two that cannot be ignored, even to the most steadfast leftist ideologue.

What is the origin of the misconception that socialism and fascism are on different ends of the political spectrum?

The leftist big lie that fascism is supposedly ‘right-wing’ originated in the Soviet Union. The term Nazi was actually a “pejorative” (expressing contempt or disapproval) and they avoided the term: In 1930, the noun and adjective, from German Nazi, abbreviation of German pronunciation of Nationalsozialist (based on earlier German sozi, popular abbreviation of “socialist”), the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party,” led by Hitler from 1920. The word Nazi was favored in southern Germany (supposedly from c. 1924) among opponents of National Socialism because the nickname Nazi was used colloquially to mean “a foolish person, clumsy or awkward person”

What does socialism actually mean?

Socialism is a form of government where most forms of property, including at least the major means of production and natural resources, are owned, or controlled by the state.

Note: Some sources claim that fascism is a capitalist system, that can easily be disproved, but it will have to wait for another time.

What are the collective ideologies of Fascism and Socialism (A.K.A. Communism) final goals?

They promise utopia but what they deliver is a “deep-state ruling class” who control:

∫ Land — the government owns it.

∫ Production the government controls it

∫ Distribution of food

∫ Where one lives

∫ What job one works

∫ What cloths one wears

∫ What one can say

∫ What views one can express

∫ What one believes.

In closing, I will remind you of what the individuals that wrote the U.S. Constitution accomplished when they formed this magnificent republic.

“The government’s function was change from the role of ruler to the role of servant. The government was set to protect its citizens from criminals – the Constitution was written to protect us from the government and the Bill of Rights was not directed against private citizens, but against government – as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.”

Friends, the republic that we inherited is the anthesis of the statist governments. Let’s see to it that at least the generation to follow us inherit the same rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” that we have enjoyed!

Pro Deo et Patria!

God Bless!

Lucien Murzyn

St. Clairsville