User talk:Gary9999

I believe I see two important but small edits that need to be made to Wiki's "Fascism" definition. One is simply that near the top of this lengthy definition, it currently suggests that fascism is anti-capitalism, yet it does not mention that Hitler and many of his chief commanders and political cohorts enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with many kingpins of German industrialism, notably those connected with the armaments industry, but also with certain other major industries. This group was important to the financing and facilitation of the National Socialist Party and its programs in government and before it took power; so much so that many consider fascism to be defined by a marriage of government with a military industrial complex, or conversely, by the militarisation of key industries.

I'm not saying the edit needs to go quite as far as to state that fascism is a marriage of politics with a military industrial complex, because that has current political implications that are best avoided, but the entry does need a line to better reveal the fact that Hitler's Nazis were very specific, in both their support and their oppression of capitalism.

I believe I can find very respectable literary and/or academic citations to affirm the historical accuracy of the relationship between Hitler's Nazis and Germany's industrial elite.

There is also the suggestion that fascists are anti-clerical to the point of being anti-Christian. Once again, while the statement is true it is also misleading by omission. It glosses too easily over the fact that Hitler and his fascist contemporaries, were engaged in an open campaign to create a new form of Chrsitianity, and Hitler personally presided over new religous rituals in the role of a high priest. It is possible to cite a well known BBC documentary that declared outright that Hitler's Nazis were primarily out to create a new religion, and that Hitler was its top cleric.

This is already a very long entry, and I don't think it makes sense to make it longer with entirely new definition entries. I am inclined to fix the anti-capitalism referrence by adding one sentence detailing the specifics of the relationship between the Nazi fascists and Germany's industrialists. The anti-christianity reference, if it requires fixing at all, can probably be handled with similar brevity. Further on in the overall entry it is already made clear that the Nazis were trying to create a new form of Christianity, so on closer examination that may require no further attention. However, to simply state that the Nazis were anti-capitalist, without adequately qualifying the statement, could be a bit misleading for anyone trying to get a firm and reliable definition of fascism. Gary9999 (talk) 21:09, 10 June 2011 (UTC)