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| Albert Speer's Warning to the West About The Rise of Technocracy |
| 2023-07-26 |
| [American Thinker] The term "technocracy" is nothing new to our political lexicon. It’s been around for decades and is commonly associated with totalitarian leftist regimes who appoint technical elitist "experts" to manage specialized sectors of their regime’s military, economy, and other civil sectors. A technocracy’s effect is to nullify the will of the people. The first of such modern regimes was arguably the National Socialist German Workers Party (aka the Nazi Party). Minister of Armaments Albert Speer was among Hitler’s finest and most prized technocrats. In recent years, Speer’s role has been overshadowed by diabolical agents with more obvious blood on their hands, such as Adolf Eichman, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, and others. However, Speer was central to Hitler’s vision for Germany. He laid out grandiose architectural plans for the Third Reich’s capital and kept the bulk of the German armaments machine running, even as the lights dimmed around Hitler’s failed vision of a thousand-year reign of unopposed power. He was no less diabolical than his peers. Since WWII, people have pondered and debated how it was possible for Germans, considered among the world’s most cultured and educated people, to fall in line with the Nazi agenda. After the war, Speer offered insights that are also warnings to Democrats’ technocratic aspirations. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Some say Speer was actually expecting the gallows and was even disappointed that he didn't. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-07-26 06:24 |
| #2 /\ He was no less diabolical than his peers. As was mentioned by the author. Not mentioned was his early sketches of the 'Stone of Hope.' [partial satire] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-26 05:51 |
| #1 ...Be careful here. Albert Speer was not the polite and contrite technocrat seduced by Nazi rhetoric that he tried (and succeeded in) portraying. He knew. He facilitated the use of slave labor in armament factories, and kept the war going months longer than it otherwise would have. He had the smarts to figure out very early on at Nuremburg that if he showed remorse he was going to stay alive, and he was right - none of the other defendants (with a couple of very qualified exceptions) even tried, and most defended what they did. Speer went to jail for twenty years, almost everyone else went to the gallows. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2023-07-26 05:16 |