The Nazis were pragmatic, however, and designated the Japanese as “honorary aryans” during the war, a great goal for the 3 legged crow group to work towards.

Wasn’t World War I and World War II in Europe basically a giant tribal war, fueled by ultra, ultra, ultra nationalism?

I’m quite confident it was.

Thanks for the reminder.

Koreans, Korea, don’t fight China or Japan. Trade with them. Don’t kill’em. Koreans may never recover warring with them.

. . . but you can’t deny that they’re (Koguryo Nazis) the terminus of a logical progression that has considerable cross-DMZ appeal.

This is precisely the psychological antique that resides in the Korean psyche that I once mentioned. This tribalism is like a sleeping tiger because if it was awakened, the results would be potentially terrible and would entail suffering, at the very least.

I don’t think Asians who adopt Nazi propaganda tactics really care about what they thought about non-Arian peoples. They appreciate Nazism’s pure ability to unify the masses, the powerful slogans, organization and unity, all stuff that leaves a lasting impression with Confucians.

Check these links out:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....iwan15.xml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.....Asian_rise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.....fare_Party

Any of you guys remember the old 60’s Star Trek episode “Patterns of Force”? Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock beam down to be shocked that this planet is a mirror image of Nazi Germany. A Federation observer comes into a planet racked by war and unifies it by becoming their “Hitler” if you will, and instituting Nazism because because it was the “most efficient system Earth ever knew.” Of course the episode ends with the Federation guy acknowledging that he had made a grave mistake. (Synopsis found here: http://www.ericweisstein.com/f.....Force.html)

Now, of course, something like Nazism can only be sustained by a charismatic dictator and is thus inherently totalitarianistic and non-democratic.

As for the no-leftist claim - nationalism is a convenient political tool which can be used by the left as well as the right, and you find the left using it effectively in states that have experienced colonialism and foreign domination, whereas in imperialist and expansionist powers, the right tends to be nationalist. The difference between left and right derives from the class composition of respective political coalitions. Nazis may have thrown a few crumbs to the workers, but big business got the state contracts and repressive labor conditions they desired. Leftists, on the other hand, desire collective property ownership, better working conditions, etc. In the case of a medium power like Korea, foreign politics plays a relatively greater role, and nationalism tends to trump domestic politics for the left. Take the recent FTA deal, for instance. In relatively labor abundant Korea the big unions and their members should be big winners from free trade with the more capital abundant US. But, they were strongly opposed to the agreement, mainly for nationalist concerns.