‘Socialism’ is a term coined to contrast an egalitarian social focus with individualism.[1] Like ‘Accelerationism’, Socialism is not simply some one thing which people who claim the word all agree on; the historical reality is that from soon after its conception, the virtual and even legal ownership (see the USSR and other "Socialist" countries) of the term has been disputed as belonging to one group and not the other, and so on, often with multiple groups concerning. Under countries officially ruled by Socialist movements, competition has been had, with bloody results, over who should get to call himself Socialist (see: Trotsky and Stalin). Socialist nomology often degenerates into one faction calling the other fascist, and vice versa. Trotsky, long known as an antifascist, along with the "antifascist" Stalin, laid claim to the title Socialist, but denounced Stalin as a fascist. Stalin, long known as an antifascist, laid claim to the title Socialist, but denounced Trotsky as a fascist. A consideration of political history will show them both in significant isometricity with fascist ideas and practice.
For Andrew Vincent, "[t]he word ‘socialism’ finds its root in the Latin sociare, which means to combine or to share. The related, more technical term in Roman and then medieval law was societas. This latter word could mean companionship and fellowship as well as the more legalistic idea of a consensual contract between freemen".[40] The term "socialism" was created by Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the founders of what would later be labelled "utopian socialism". Simon coined the term as a contrast to the liberal doctrine of "individualism", which stressed that people act or should act as if they are in isolation from one another.[41]
Socialism has typically been a nostalgic diatribe against underdeveloped capitalism, finding its eschatological soap-boxes amongst the relics of precapitalist territorialities.
— Nick Land, "Machinic Desire" (1993), in Fanged Noumena, p. 340
"Socialism wants to seize the means of production.
The means of production is the human mind.
Therefore, all socialism necessary involves some form of mind control."
-- Anon, ca Q1 2020.
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- Liberalism; Leftism; Capitalism; Accelerationism
- Nationalism; Militarism
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Hitler's National-Socialism was largely a military socialism in combination with racialist socialism and, obviously, national or nationalist socialism, and imperialism (statecraft also devoted to conquest or expansionism). French ideas about socialist statecraft from previous centuries were an unavoidable influence on Hitler's National-Socialism (Nazism).
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- ↑ Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, Margaret Jacob, James R. Jacob. «Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society – From 1600, Volume 2.» Ninth Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009. p. 540. ^