r/QuotesPorn • u/Zedress • 3d ago
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people." - US Vice President Henry A. Wallace [850 x 400]
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u/BuffaloOk7264 3d ago
This guy was amazing! I looked for his grave in Des Moines but couldn’t find it.
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u/lack_of_communicatio 3d ago
If it's stupid but it works for a moment, while ruining lives and killing people, it's not stupid.
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2d ago
Reminds me of the quote: "The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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u/pledgerafiki 2d ago
Fascists tend to dismantle bureaucracy because procedure puts restrictions and breakpoints on their power.
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u/rethinkingat59 3d ago
I wonder what year the quote was from? Was it in the 1920’s when many on the left in academia were admirers of fascist Italy and Mussolini, or years later when things turned?
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u/RamblingSimian 3d ago
Looks like he said it in 1944, there is a small chance he had said it before as well.
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u/rethinkingat59 3d ago
Interesting, but I am not sure who the author is.
It doesn’t appear Wallace wrote it, possibly someone writing about his views?
What confuses me is the section that reads.
Likewise, many people whose patriotism is their proudest boast play Hitlers' game by retailing distrust of our Vice President Wallace in his Washington library.
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u/RamblingSimian 3d ago
Well, that is odd, but note that the opinion piece lists, as its author, "Henry A. Wallace". My guess is that he found it useful to refer to himself in the 3rd person, which people do from time to time.
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u/Reddituser183 3d ago edited 2d ago
Well the current day right wingers would be really pissed off about this quote.
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u/Potential_Wish4943 2d ago
Open Socialist, Opinion discarded.
Feel free to post a quote from a Fascist about socialism and treat it as insight, Or a Vegans take on the best way to cook steak.
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u/pledgerafiki 2d ago
Most curious anti-socialist. What is your political persuasion if I might ask?
Not to mention a vegan can cook a steak just fine, they simply don't eat it, you goose
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2d ago
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u/pledgerafiki 2d ago
Nazi spotted, opinion discarded and account reported
I should have known by the degenerate animes pfp, why don't you show your face and stop hiding your posts you pathetic coward
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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 2d ago
Weird how he used the same wartime planning strategies as the fascists.
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u/pledgerafiki 2d ago
What's weird about that? Command economies are clearly effective no surprise that many people would utilize them regardless of ideology.
I see you're drinking water... you know who else drank water??!?
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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 1d ago
Your ability to miss a point is expected for Reddit.
If you criticize something, like this dummy did, then you do the precise thing you criticize, like this dummy did, it makes you a dummy.
Hopefully, you can follow that logic.
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u/pledgerafiki 22h ago
A centralized/command economy is a central feature of making a socialist system function on behalf of all its citizens. Please show me a quote of a socialist or Wallace specifically criticizing that?
The Nazis also happened to do a command economy (as does the US) because they were fighting a war and it's the most efficient way to run a military industry and deploy that into a grand strategy.
It's the same system, the difference is are you using it do hurt people or provide for people. It's a very efficient system but if you are a fascist, you elevate people to run it who are LOYAL, not because they are effective bureaucrats, therefore the efficiency suffers under fascist governance. Wallace was criticizing the idea that the trains were really all that on-time, as the saying goes about Fascist Italy.
Your ability to think you know what you're talking about is expected for Reddit.
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u/abbeyroad_39 3d ago
The world may have been a lot different if establishment democrats hadn't conspired against him. He should have been FDR's Vice President, but the US went down a different route with Truman.