Fascism can take many forms.[snip]
Darryl
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[snip]cold calculating way in which eager, striving, "successful" employees were discharged reminds one of the way in which the concentration camps
operated.
"arbeit macht frei"
I think the reason this slogan "stuck" so much is the irony of it: Authentic work (which produces *works*, as in "Bach's Works"...) really does make one free -- it transforms merely formal freedom (the right to pull a lever on a voting machine once every other year...) into material freedom (creative shaping of all aspects of one's world of daily life, etc.
If the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz had read something like: "You are cheap and replaceable labor", or "Building the New Germany", or just about anything else, I doubt it would have "stuck".
At the bottom of your mind, it's what
you're hoping to find. It's the real thing.(In case you don't know what it is, answer at bottom)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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Answer: Coca-cola
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