Why is this a good thing? Can you explain what you think the benefits of this are?

It worked during WWII. Nazi Germany was stopped through violence. Not only that, their army was weaker during the mid 1930s, if they had been attacked then, they'd have been defeated much earlier.

I mean if you apply this strategy to capitalism, wouldn't that mean you should be trying to build the best business you can through socialist means to prove that the capitalist system is inefficient? It's weird that we only seem to advocate this methodology when it comes to violence against fascism.

Hmmm. Good point.

I wish we'd talk about that then. Although I disagree with your use of the future tense, since we should be putting programs in place to stop Nazis now. You're telling me that we need to bail out the boat and then plug up the leaks, but by the time we get around to the leaks the boat's going to be refilled.

That's what I meant by end goal. Such infrastructure won't be put in instantly. In keeping with the boat analogy, once the water is already in, you can't get it to flow back to where it came, you have to get rid of it some other way.

If you honestly think people didn't have "reasons" to embrace right-wing ideology then you're setting yourself up to fail. Yes, those reasons were based on emotional reactions, but that's true of our reasons as well. Socialism isn't a cold, logical platform, it's an empathic one. Fascism is based on emotions too - fear and hatred of the outside. All ideology is pursued through reason guided by emotion.

I think we just disagree on this point. I do think socialism is the most logical ideology from where I stand (all humans are equal, to me, is a more logical deduction than members of other races are inherently hostile) All ideologies that deal with how people are supposed to live their lives will obviously be based on emotion in some way, but that doesn't mean that all ideologies are emotionally equal.