One of Nazism’s central characteristics is that it resembles and copies other ideologies: just as the AIDS virus mutates on its external cell membrane so that it goes undetected by the human immune system of the infected person, Nazism assumes many names, copies every ideology that probably appeals to the People (the ‘subhumans’) on whom it seeks to anchor itself so as to feed and sustain the ‘humans/superhumans’ – dignitaries of the most dangerous and darkest of all social systems.
This can be easily seen in Hitler’s time, with Hitler himself starting off as a pacifist socialist (in the sense of an anti-war advocate, not as a pacifist like Lambrakis, or someone else) and ending as the one executing millions of people (not only Jews, for whom the mere fact that they were targeted on racial and religious grounds should have been enough proof, since it led to genocide) as much as the fact that he denounced any wish to control Austria only to annex it later to Germany.
Particularly with us Greeks, let us be reminded how he had declared himself an admirer of Greece only to send his mechanized troops to annihilate those Greeks.
Hitler made it because it exploited pro-people popular movements that had developed in Germany to ensure protection of and better conditions of life and financial prosperity. That is what he guaranteed the German People, gained super powers on those People and the final solution to their everyday problems was to put to death the unemployed, the sick and infirm, the elderly, and all these after he had previously scythed through all the homosexuals, aliens, political dissenters, particularly Germans on the left-wing as much as right-wing Germans, vertically and horizontally. One official example is what is referred to as ‘the nights of the long sabres’ (a slaughter which in fact kept for three days, from June 30th to July 2nd 1934) but this is not an isolated incident but generalized and regular practice).
Nazism in its present form can no longer of course be named ‘Nazism’ given the history of such a term. But it goes by other names that usurp and copy ideas that it of course does not follow, but through which it creates a movement and succeeds at a large scale.
In the economic sector, the term most widely used is neoliberalism / free market economy / elasticity on the employer-employee relations / refurbishing the system / sustained development, etc., terms that go down more easily than the real ones. That, is every abolishment of safety valves of the social strata pertaining to the average Citizen down, and gets camouflaged under an argumentation and rationale that spell an undefined ‘a better future’.
What is clear and undeniable is that the reason (always according to their own arguments) for the defaulted Greek economy is to be overwhelmingly sought at the governments themselves and the economic crimes that they have committed in league with the large-scale industrialists, the financiers and plutocrats (within and without borders) at the expense of the People, and to the huge expenditures and blood-sucking indirect and direct taxation that they have always been engaged in.
However, despite the stated confessions regarding the culpability and guilt of the governments and the plutocrats for the defaulting of the Greek economy, there has been a great effort and propaganda for the People to shoulder this blame. For that blame to stick, the Greek People are portrayed unjustly, senselessly and totally unrealistically as leading a life that characterizes plutocracy, the politicians and in general, those in power and not the People, who could not have possibly have led such a life like the one they are blamed for, even of they had wanted to.
How is this made to stick and where do we see Nazism in the present situation?
Politicians, just like the Nazis, developed a network of followers that are in their service, just like the Nazi leaders used party members:
MPs, just like the new ‘supermen’ (‘superwomen’) array a throng of followers – voters / clients who hope that eventually they will get to acquire some of the characteristics and enjoy some of the privileges of the ‘superman’ (‘superwoman’) (immunity, impunity, pull strings, wheal and deal, get preferential treatment, get rich on illegal / illicit / opaque dealings, etc) paying in action to keep the politicians in power, just like Hitler’s Youth and such like organizations offered the Nazi Party a level of control over German society that could not be had otherwise.
All we have to think of are the historical examples themselves: after Metaxas’ Youth and the similar ones under communist rule, we have been experiencing an official revival of this type of party watch and control in the new generations particularly during childhood and early adolescence at schools.
Under PASOK rule, these were so rigidly institutionalized, that by means of their action, they greatly contributed to the dissolution of the educational system and the push of the newer generations to live through and get accustomed to the fact that it was not education that led to occupational achievement but networking in a political party through opaque dealings.
We can easily substantiate this in the CVs of all party members, particularly those of ministers and MPs, etc (such as G. Rangousis, T. Moraitis, A. Diamantopoulou, D. Reppas, J. Mangriotis, A. Lonverdos, M. Xenogiannakopoulou, K. Batseli, C. Kastanides, M.Chrysochoidis, A. Papaligouras, E. Stylianidis, A. Samaras, K. Karamanlis, G. Voulgarakis, A. Tsipras, D. Thodoris, K. Koyvelis, P. Lafazanis, D. Papadimoulis, N. Tsoukalis, G. Psarianos, M. Damanakis, A. Papariga, J. Giokas, G. Protoulis, etc) all of whom without exception have come from such party youth organizations. All we also have to do is remember the ‘greenguards’ and the analogous ‘blue boys’ and the ‘red guys’.
Of course, what is not said to all those, as was also kept from the Nazi youth, was that they were expendable, if they did not happen to be born to particular families, i.e., be persons that are relatives or in-laws to the ‘supermen’ and ‘superwomen’. This is precisely what they are getting a taste of with the massive expending of whole armies of such followers who got ‘networked’ in the belief that it was the only way of survival, only to face precisely the sort of thing they tried to exorcise themselves from: lift of tenure, low pay, unemployment, lift of pensions, etc.
Simple examples to these facts are the so-called stagiers, the civil servants, the policemen, the army personnel, etc.
For as long as the official occupation by WMF, that they themselves provoke in a Goebbel-like fashion (reminiscent of the false telegram by Austria ‘inviting’ Germany for the ansluss in 1938), proceeds, all the more they also proceed and cut to pieces the hordes of followers who however do not belong to the caste of ‘supermen’/superwomen’.
It is certainly not a new phenomenon; it has happened many times over in every Nazi-like regime, no matter how it was named.
So, to recapitulate, where do we see Nazism in the economy?
Neo-liberalism: no state protectionism or other interference is permitted in the name of the ‘freedom’ of the market but state-led protectionism is nonetheless enforced in favour of those in power.
Whoever does not belong to the caste of ‘supermen’/’superwomen’ are financially garrotted, their capacity to do business, and their revenue that once permitted them to lead a decent living are being taken away, all restrictions on work are lifted so as they can work more for less, their pension disappears officially, and in general, conditions make it prohibitive to possess or sustain property, to be able to have cash flow and move in the market, to setup a family and to have a decent medicare plan.
In other words, all those who are not related by blood or otherwise to particular offspring are destined to wilt, to see their own reproduction fall, while the only certain thing is that they will lead destitute lives in poverty and unfulfilled need.
This is exactly what the Nazis had enforced in Germany in 1936 till 1942, not only on Jews, but on every single one who was not a Nazi sympathizer, even if that person was German and claimed neutrality.
This is what is happening now. Just as back then it took a series of years to get established, the ground has now been systematically prepared during a series of governments (not only Greek) up until the signal was given for the trap to close on all sides and very fast.
Let it be known that the Nazis, did not even once accept the accusation that they did what they did for anything but the good of humanity and of Germany…