A few comments from Goebbels about dictatorships...how to have one.

[madfloridian]

I just saw a post at Kos with a link I used to use to refer to the propaganda of Germany in the 40s. I had forgotten it. Here are a few quotes from Joseph Geobbles in 1932... and by the way he favors a dictatorship.

The first two are very pertinent.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif13.htm

Advice for a Dictator
And for Those Who Want to Become One

by Joseph Goebbels

1. A dictatorship requires three things: a man, an idea and a following ready to live for the man and the idea, and if necessary to die for them. If the man is lacking it is hopeless; if the idea is lacking, it is impossible; if the following is missing, than the dictatorship is only a bad joke.

4. A dictator's first task is to make what he wants popular, bringing the will of the nation in tune with his own will. Only thus will the broad masses support him in the long run and join his ranks.

7. A dictator does not need to follow the will of the majority. He must however have the ability to use the will of the people.

8. Leading parties and masses is the same as governing a nation. He who ruins a party will lead a nation into the abyss. Political ability is not demonstrated by using treacherous methods to rise to a ministerial chair on the labor of others.

13. Dictatorships that hide behind the law to give themselves an appearance of legality even if their actions disagree, are short-lived. They will collapse of their own incompetence, leaving behind chaos and confusion.

14. Only those who lack the courage to join a party value being above party. When worlds collapse, when foundations shake, when revolutionary fevers spread through peoples and nations, one must join a party, one must be for or against. He who stands between will be torn apart by the contradictions, a victim of his own indecisiveness.

[txindy]

1. Number 13 kind of stands out, as well.

Goebbels would've fit right in with the Cabal.

[leftstreet]

2. Apres moi le deluge

Louis XV

[madfloridian]

5. From IWT: After me come the floods......

"Centuries later, the people of New Orleans met those floods, as contemporary rulers -- political and economic -- abandoned them to their fate. The words "Après moi le deluge" have come to epitomise the psychology of those who ruin people and the earth with no thought for tomorrow, and the destruction of New Orleans will stand as the naked exposure of a fading American dream."


http://www.iwtnews.com/Katrina_essay

[leftstreet]

6. Nice link! Thanks. n/t

[madfloridian]

3. Goebbels...women belong in the home. Sounding familiar.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb55.htm

The woman's place is in the home...that just never goes away, does it? It is the mantra of many groups today in the name of religion. This part gave me a creepy feeling...children for the state.

The modern age, with all its vast revolutionary transformations in government, politics, economics and social relations has not left women and their role in public life untouched. Things we thought impossible several years or decades ago are now everyday reality. Some good, noble, and commendable things have happened. But also things that are contemptible and humiliating. These revolutionary transformations have largely taken from women their proper tasks. Their eyes were set in directions that were not appropriate for them. The result was a distorted public view of German womanhood that had nothing to do with former ideals.

A fundamental change is necessary. At the risk of sounding reactionary and outdated, let me say this clearly: The first, best, and most suitable place for the women is in the family, and her most glorious duty is to give children to her people and nation, children who can continue the line of generations and who guarantee the immortality of the nation. The woman is the teacher of the youth, and therefore the builder of the foundation of the future. If the family is the nation's source of strength, the woman is its core and center. The best place for the woman to serve her people is in her marriage, in the family, in motherhood. This is her highest mission. That does not mean that those women who are employed or who have no children have no role in the motherhood of the German people. They use their strength, their abilities, their sense of responsibility for the nation, in other ways. We are convinced, however, that the first task of a socially reformed nation must be to again give the woman the possibility to fulfill her real task, her mission in the family and as a mother.

The national revolutionary government is everything but reactionary. It does not want to stop the pace of our rapidly moving age. It has no intention of lagging behind the times. It wants to be the flag bearer and pathfinder of the future. We know the demands of the modern age. But that does not stop us from seeing that every age has its roots in motherhood, that there is nothing of greater importance than the living mother of a family who gives the state children.

I have no comment on this...it speaks for itself.

[linazelle]

4. I hope this one is true...

13. Dictatorships that hide behind the law to give themselves an appearance of legality even if their actions disagree, are short-lived. They will collapse of their own incompetence, leaving behind chaos and confusion.


"They" hide behind the law--instead of proclaiming themselves to be what they are. Hopefully, it will backfire.

[f-bush]

7. didn't shrubs father have an affiar with Mrs. Goebbels?

Could it explain some of shrub's personality?