Radical Leftist fascist and former Jazz Guitarist Charles “Icarus” Johnson, has been caught lying. He claims that 30’s Radical leftist Father Coughlin was Rightwing. He is taken to tasks by several LGFers, but he continues to baldfaced lie about what Socialism is.
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Charles 6/12/09 11:05:58 am reply quote
re: #109 neocon hippie
Jonah Goldberg makes a pretty good case that Father Charles Coughlin was a man of the left. Apparently he advocated for the typical social programs, and his complaint against FDR was that the New Deal was not going far enough. He was no libertarian free marketeer.
If you read up on Father Coughlin, it’s just not true that he was a socialist — he was a Bircher-style anti-communist. Again — this is just revisionism to try to put Father Coughlin on the “left.” It’s absurd.
He wasn’t Socialist? Well, Charles gets exposed here by a poster.
191 Kenneth 6/12/09 11:20:57 am reply quote
re: #138 Charles
Father Charles Edward Coughlin
Coughlin used his radio program to promote Franklin D. Roosevelt and his early New Deal proposals, (and later to oppose FDR), to issue antisemitic commentary, and later to rationalize some of the policies of National Socialist Adolf Hitler and Fascist Benito Mussolini.
Coughlin’s support for Roosevelt and his New Deal faded later in 1934, when he founded the National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ), a nationalistic worker’s rights organization which grew impatient with what it viewed as the President’s unconstitutional and pseudo-capitalistic monetary policies. His radio programs preached more and more about the negative influence of “money changers” and “permitting a group of private citizens to create money” on the general welfare of the public.[6] He also spoke about the need for monetary reform. Coughlin claimed that the Depression was a “cash famine”. Some modern economic historians, in part, agree with this assessment. [7] Coughlin proposed monetary reforms, including the elimination of the Federal Reserve System, as the solution.
Among the articles of the NUSJ, were work and income guarantees, nationalizing “necessary” industry, wealth redistribution through taxation of the wealthy, federal protection of worker’s unions, and decreasing property rights in favor of the government controlling the country’s assets for “public good.” [8] Illustrative of his disdain for capitalism is his statement that, “We maintain the principle that there can be no lasting prosperity if free competition exists in industry. Therefore, it is the business of government not only to legislate for a minimum annual wage and maximum working schedule to be observed by industry, but also to curtail individualism that, if necessary, factories shall be licensed and their output shall be limited.” [9]
His views combined a number of positions from the left and right, with a big helping of antisemitism. In that regard, he was very much a 30’s style Fascist. It is interesting to note Coughlin’s support for “wealth redistribution through taxation of the wealthy” and the “government controlling the country’s assets for public good.” Those ideas have a lot of support within the Obama administration today.
Yeah Father Coughlin really sounds like a rightwinger. He is calling for redistribution of wealth, something the right is against. But alas, this doesn’t deter Icarus to continue his lies.
246 Charles 6/12/09 11:36:42 am
Those views are not socialist, they’re authoritarian. You have to look not just at their tactics, but at the outcome they hope to achieve. In the case of Coughlin and Von Brunn, taking control of the economy is a tactic with the purpose of making sure the race remains pure. That’s the real bottom line for many fascist groups — the fear of miscegenation.
Hold on. Socialism isn’t authoritarian and doesn’t believe in wealth redistribution? This is an outright lie. Fascism is a form of Socialism. Charles knows this and he is lying. This is an example of how Progressive Fascists like Charles “Icarus” Foster Johnson project their own views onto others. Redistributing wealth is leftwing, not rightwing. Kid Icarus is a liar and it is plain for all to see.
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