During Trump’s inauguration, Elon Mask nonchalantly threw a Nazi salute into the face of humanity. Later Trump posted that USSR “helped” USA to defeat Nazi Germany. We will come to that in a different article. First lest us take a closer look at the Heiling Musk. Previously he claimed that Hitler was a “socialist”, in an ongoing assault on history.
Musk’s “Sieg Heil” produced a number of sarcastic memes and commentaries. We made several publication at our channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden” on this topic, starting with this post. The publication is concluded with the complete translation of an article from “Soviet Russia”, which we only presented in highlights at Telegram.
Elon Musk showing his true colours
Publicist and member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Rogozhkin (https://t.me/RedLine1917) commented on Elon Musk’s gesture, similar to a Nazi salute, with which the billionaire concluded his speech at Trump’s presidential parade:
“A Nazi salute-giving billionaire who got rich largely on military contracts is an excellent symbol of the fact that capitalism has not changed, has not become social, has not become fair, as it seemed to some.
Capitalism, like a hundred years ago, is a system leading the world to new wars for the redistribution of markets and territories. A system leading the world to barbarism. A system that cannot help but become fascist in times of crisis. And it is impossible not to stand in the way of this barbarism, if only because it will affect everyone.”
👉 Maybe Musk is doing a re-enactment of the “Go West” clip by Pet Shop Boys, though that would be an equally big offense, seeing the subtext of that song…
By Fearless John:
◾ Recently Elon Musk claimed Adolf Hitler was a “Socialist” in a childish attempt to conflate Fascism (the dictatorship of Capitalists) with Communism (the Worker’s dictatorship).
Nevertheless it’s really easy to learn who Hitler’s policies benefited. Hitler was not only vehemently anti-Communist and anti-Marxist, he carried a full purge of the NSDAP and crushed the Strasserist faction at the request of the big industrial landlords of Germany. He put the biggest industrial and globalists elites on his government and crushed the trade unions and workers movements, provided slave labour to massive corporations that still operate today.
Just as Elon Musk is preparing to do today in the United States.
Who wants to declare Hitler a “leftist”?
— By Yury Afonin:
For several days now, a thesis is being spun in the Russian information space: Hitler, it turns out, is a leftist! He’s almost a communist!
Who is spreading this wonderous idea? The right wing of the Russian state propaganda. They keep posting and reposting scribblings on this topic.
It’s long not been a secre: we have a lot of propagandists on state payroll who push openly right-wing ideas and constantly pour mud on Lenin, the Bolsheviks, the Soviet Union and all leftists in general.
A statement by Alice Weidel, the leader of the German far–right AfD party, became a trigger for the Russian right. Recently, in a live Internet broadcast with Elon Musk, she stated that Hitler was not a rightist at all, that he “was a communist and considered himself a socialist”.
The Russian right-wingers happily picked up on this thesis. Here is a typical example. (As an aside from us at BATS, it is a real pity to see Andrey Medvedev, the author of the documentary “The Great Unknown War”, to repost such unseemly postulates)
What are the arguments of those who want to ascribe Hitler to the left? The Hitler Party had the words “workers'” and “socialist” in its name. And the Nazi flag was red. Hitler sometimes scolded the capitalists and generally resorted to anti-elitist rhetoric.
One would like to ask: do you have any more substantial arguments? Besides Hitler’s demagoguery and the colours of the flags? Anything from the socio-economic sphere? The rightists have actually only one argument here: Hitler resorted to planned regulation of the economy.
Gentlemen, I would like to draw your attention to the following facts:
🔴Back in the 1920s, right in «Mein Kampf», Hitler declared the Communists and the USSR his main enemies. Of course, by linking it all to his favourite racial-national issue: Marxism was invented by Jews, and they also rule the Soviet Union.
🔴Having come to power, Hitler sent all leftists, both communists and Social Democrats, to death camps.
🔴Hitler carried out a large–scale privatisation of property – banks, factories, mines, which were nationalised during the Weimar Republic. And, of course, under Hitler, the German economy remained predominantly private.
🔴Hitler destroyed the German trade unions and the German labour movement.
🔴In the absence of trade unions, Hitler provided German capitalists with unprecedented profit margins. Look at the diagram. Under the Nazis, the average rate of profit of German capitalists increased 4-5 times! And this is not in comparison with the times of the Great Depression, but with the quite prosperous years of 1926-28.
🔴Hitler fabulously enriched the capitalists with military orders. While ordinary Germans were shedding their own and other people’s blood, the big German bourgeoisie was fantastically profiting from the war.
🔴Hitler supplied private German companies with millions of virtually free slaves from concentration camp prisoners and “ostarbeiters.”
🔴In general, it has never been as good for German capitalists as it was under Hitler. And the regulation of the economy under the Nazis really existed. So what? For capitalists, profit growth is 4-5 times a thousand times more important than some kind of “economic freedoms.”
‼️Gentlemen, if you see Hitler as a “leftist” against this backdrop, then questions arise about your mental abilities. Or do you know at least something from history? Or do you have even a grain of conscience, since you are ready to twist like the last cardsharper?
And is generally understandable why the Russian right should engage in this gross distortion. Their ideas, their constant attacks on the Communists and the USSR, are sometimes confusingly similar to the products of Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda. Now they’re going to disown this similarity like this: no, no, Hitler is a leftist, and we’re rightist.
And we should never forget that Ukraine’s slide into the abyss also began with a rightward tilt in politics, with anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism. The most reactionary circles of Russian capital and their political servants are quite capable of pushing Russia onto the Ukrainian path. The path of newfound fascism.
The “Right International” of Trump and Musk
— By G.P. KAMNEV, Member of the Presidium, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
(A shortened, highlights-only version at out Telegram channel)
Even before his inauguration, the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, began to design his own political project for the whole world. This project can be called the “Right International”, as the emphasis is clearly on supporting right-wing and conservative political forces around the world. A number of public statements by Donald Trump himself, as well as by the multi-billionaire Elon Musk, close to him, leave no doubt about this.
There is moderate (and sometimes, unfortunately, immoderate) optimism about this new political construct in the Russian pro-government media and blogs. Referring to individual statements by right-wing politicians, the position of the emerging “Right International” is presented as almost pro-Russian. And at least as a worthy alternative to the so-called “liberal international” that ruled in the West until recently.
Is it so? And what does the “Right International” of Trump and Musk has in store for Russia? Let’s get this straight.
Trumpism is a paradise for billionaires and speculators
Trump’s right-wing sympathies are widely known. The main political logic of Trumpism can be described as support for private capitalist initiatives as opposed to the state and public sectors. This line in the field of economic and social policy is complemented by cultural conservatism. The ideal politician for Trump is probably the well-known hater of our country, the father of the “arms race”, President Ronald Reagan.
It’s funny that Donald Trump never tires of accusing his liberal opponents of communism and Marxism. Despite the fact that liberals and conservatives are undoubtedly worth each other in terms of anti-communism. So, during the election campaign, Trump repeatedly called Democratic candidate Kamala Harris “comrade Kamala” and “communist”. Interestingly, Kamala deserved to be accused of communism because of her rather sensible proposal to limit price increases for basic medicines and food products against the background of a liberal program. In response, Trump said: “Comrade Kamala has announced that she wants to introduce socialist price controls.”
Our state propaganda focuses on the positive (from its point of view) elements of the Trump program and Trumpism. Such as limiting migration or stopping the promotion of gender diversity. Even a certain image of the American right is being created – defenders of the common people, almost leaders of the working masses. However, the underside of this program – a paradise for billionaires and speculators – somehow escapes the otherwise vigilant gaze of propagandists.
Trump and Max are building cells of the “Right International” in Europe
However, let’s return to the “Right International”, which Trump and Musk began building even before the new president officially took office. Trump and Musk have made a number of statements about their support for far-right politicians and parties, primarily in Europe. So, in Britain, Elon Musk will finance the right-wing Reform UK party, its leader Nigel Farage said. Musk has previously spoken out in support of the far-right British Islamophobe Tommy Robinson.
In general, Ilon Max’s interference in British politics goes beyond all bounds of decency. One can, of course, gloat: after all, the British themselves interfere in the politics of other countries around the world. But the nature of the intervention is important here. Musk proposes to overthrow the perceivedly leftist government of the Labour Party and replace it with right-wing and far-right forces. If Musk’s manoeuvrer succeeds, then the government of Cyrus Starmer, according to the billionaire’s plan, will be replaced by a coalition of the Conservative Party and the far-right Reform UK. Will such a change of power bring anything good to Russia? No. Conservative British governments were the most energetic sponsors of the Kiev regime, and conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally disrupted the peace talks in Istanbul.
They are also trying to present the British far-righters from Reform UK as Russia’s allies. Only this is already “pulling an owl over a globe.” If the German extreme right sometimes at least makes statements that can be called pro-Russian with a stretch, then the British right are carriers of the traditional British imperial Russophobic culture. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage himself harshly condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine and personally Russian President Putin.
Yes, Farage is an opponent of neoliberal Britain and the neoliberal European Union. But this does not make him an ally of Russia, even on the principle of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Farage is a supporter of traditional imperial Britain, which was no less hostile to Russia and the Soviet Union than neoliberal Britain.
Does Russia need the “leaky conservatism” of the German extreme right?
In Germany, the Trump–Musk tandem relies on the far-right Alternative for Germany party. According to our state television, this right-wing party is constantly presented to us in the media as great friends of Russia. But is this really the case?
Let’s take a closer look at what kind of people the German extreme right is. For example, the leader of the AfD in Thuringia, Bjorn Hecke, who was shown to us on TV as a great friend of Russia, arguing that he drives a Russian-made Niva car. This caused downright delight on our TV, although who can be surprised by such cheap populist moves? Let’s recall Yeltsin, who rode a tram to work under the gaze of the TV cameras.
But what is not shown on our television: Bjorn Heke was convicted of intentionally using Nazi slogans, specifically for the slogan of the SA stormtroopers “Everything is for Germany!”. With these words, Hecke ended a fiery speech in Merseburg in 2021. The use of such slogans is prohibited by German law. The German judges, however, awarded Hecke only a fine of 13,000 euros (about 13 million roubles) and refused a more severe punishment in the form of imprisonment, which in this case would have looked more logical. By the way, according to Russian law, he probably wouldn’t have gotten off so easily. And that would have been right. By the way, Hecke is a history teacher by profession. So he definitely knew what he was saying.
The support of such figures is a spit on the graves of our ancestors who defended the country from fascism.
Alice Weidel, co-chairman of the Alternative for Germany party, wrote the following post on Twitter in January 2020: “75 years ago, 2.5 million Germans fled from the advancing Red Army on horses and carts in 20-degree frosts, taking only the most necessary things with them. Today we remember the victims of the exile.” She didn’t elaborate who the poor victimswere…
Another Alternative leader, Alexander Gauland, speaks of the Third Reich and its aftermath only as “a speck of bird droppings on the scale of German history”. Let me remind you that this “speck” cost us more than 20 million lives.
By the way, there are many in the AfD who advocate the return of Konigsberg to his “native harbor”. So the coming to power of the German right will create direct threats of pressure on our Kaliningrad region.
In current politics, the AfD party program demands to strengthen the power of the Bundeswehr and acquire nuclear weapons. Does this meet the interests of our country?
The election campaign for the federal parliament is currently underway in Germany. In these circumstances, Elon Musk strongly supported the “Alternative for Germany”. First, the billionaire wrote a tweet in which he declared the “Alternative” to be the “last spark of hope” for the country. Musk then published an article in the newspaper Welt, where he defended the “Alternative” from accusations of Nazism. However, Musk’s arguments in defence of the German extreme right turned out to be funny. For example, he writes:
“The representation of the AfD as an ultra-right party is clearly not true, given that the party’s leader, Alice Weidel, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does it look like the Hitler you know? Come on!”
Thus, Musk believes that a representative of a sexual minority cannot be a Nazi and an extreme right. Perhaps he just doesn’t know, for example, about the “strong male friendship” of Ernst Rohm’s Nazi stormtroopers?
Alice Weidel, the co-chair of Alternative for Germany, herself declared her homosexuality at the party congress in April 2017. Her partner is a female film producer originally from Sri Lanka, they have two adopted children. So the Western extreme right is not at all opposed to the extremist ideology of LGBT people (the movement is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), as our state propaganda is trying to convince us for some reason.
Hitler as a communist?!
In a tandem of Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, the American billionaire even lags behind in terms of historical ignorance. It turned out that Weidel knows so little about the history of her own country that she stated (don’t be surprised) that Hitler was a communist.
Here are her words from an interview she gave to Elon Musk:
“Hitler was a communist. He considered himself a socialist. They nationalized all private companies. They demanded high taxes. …He was a socialist communist, period, no more comments on this. We are the exact opposite, the Libertarian Conservative Party.”
For those who are as ignorant of history as the German extreme right, let us recall that private capitalist corporations such as Krupp, Thyssen, I.G. Farbenindustry, and many others flourished under Hitler. In fact, it was the leaders of Germany’s 30 largest capitalist corporations who brought Hitler’s party to power by writing a collective letter to then-German President Hindenburg demanding that Hitler be appointed Reich Chancellor. Hitler was a staunch supporter of capitalism, he just wanted the German capitalists to rule over everyone else.
It should be noted that Weidel considers his main difference from Hitler’s party to be that her party does not advocate the nationalisation of large companies, and against high taxes on the rich. Otherwise, apparently, the parties are not particularly different. In general, those who are trying to write off this German misunderstanding as Russia’s allies are not very smart people themselves.
The program of the “Right International” is harsh and cynical imperialism
The French extreme right, which is also presented to us as friends of Russia, actually takes positions hostile to our country. Jordan Bardella, the leader of the National Association, gave a standing ovation to Zelensky, who arrived in Brussels. And in his book published last year, he called Vladimir Putin’s actions illegal, starting with the return of Crimea, calling his decisions a “revision of borders” for the sake of the “mythical Russian world.”
Pierre-Romain Thionne, head of the youth wing of the National Association, admires the Ukrainian army and considers it necessary to strengthen NATO’s presence in Eastern Europe. He calls NATO a peace guarantee organization that allegedly only reacts to “Russian aggression.”
Elon Musk’s Italian friend, the far–right politician Giorgi Meloni, while in opposition, complimented Russia and its policies, but once in power, she took a clear pro-Ukrainian, i.e. pro-American, position.
Does the “Right International” of Trump and Musk bring something good to the people of Russia? I’m sure not. Under the leadership of the right, Western imperialism will become tougher, more cynical, and more calculating than under the liberals. We will have to face a more aggressive enemy who is not afraid to resort to force. “The right” means an increase in spending on weapons and special services, which will target all those who resist Western imperialism. That is, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries that want to preserve their sovereignty.
Trump’s claims to Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada show once again that the new president is ready to fight for American hegemony even more vigorously than his predecessor.
In fact, there has already been a period in recent history when extreme right-wing forces have been victorious in one European country after another. It was the 1930s. And then they did not hide behind the modest definition of “conservatives”, but openly called themselves fascists. In those years, there were also those who rejoiced at the failure of the liberals. But the coming to power of the “Right International” in Europe brought war to our country and the death of more than 20 million people. In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, let’s reflect once again on this tragic lesson of history.
“Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of capitalism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf”
~ Brecht