The Howard Zinn factor

Glenn Beck: Despite What You Might Think, Nazis Were Not Right-Wing

Duh.  I could go on for hours on this, and  have over the years. Suffice it to say that Beck is right; both Hitler and Stalin were socialists.  The major difference being that Hitler used the state's authority to direct what the private sector produced, while Stalin confiscated and ran the means of production.  Here's some of the comments to this New York Magazine article.. “ This is a ridiculous attempts at cheaply revising history. Hitler was attacking big business and high finance? What about all the wealthy industrials who profited from Hitler's war-machine and from the concentration camps industry? Hitler was expanding access to education? Or was it access to propaganda? No wonder this Goldberg was on Fox News. Such cheap arguments are juicy material for easy explotation by Fox's neoliberal (neo liberal?) idiocratic agenda. Let me set the record straight. This is revisionism of the cheapest sort.   By Alek2010 on 03/30/2010 at 5:18am Glen Beck is an idiot. A major reason why people followed Hitler and the National Socialists was because of their fear of the Communists. The Nazis wanted to return to a day when their nation was pure, before the immigrants moved in, before homosexuals came out, to stop the long haired swing kids, their era of hippie, to cut the national debt, to have a strong military and to re-arm the Rhineland, to cut down on crime done by immigrants, to end the power of the Jewish bankers, to cut the liberal Jewish owned media. Sounds a lot like today's modern Tea Party.   By redlands123 on 03/30/2010 at 7:58am The right-wing in the U.S. decries attempts to rewrite history while rewriting history. Constantly. It's been a very effective strategy for them. Seemingly.   By christopher1974 on 03/30/2010 at 8:08am The sad thing is that the Texas School boards buy so many school textbooks that they can re-write history. Any wonder why some people actually will believe Glenn Beck? blah-blah-blah ” There you have it, the root of our national problem.  Minds tampered with by leftist  education cadre.  Hell, even Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism !