Socialist Swastika Symbology - terrifying news of ancient and modern discoveries

Rex Curry

Many people overuse the word "Nazi" because they do not know the actual name of the group: the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP). Other people overuse the shorthand term to deliberately cover-up the group's actual name, in order to rehabilitate socialism. Most people do not know that "Nazis" did not call themselves "Nazis" (they called themselves socialists). The same people are unaware that German socialists did not call their symbol a "swastika." They perpetuate two more myths: (1) That the swastika, as an ancient symbol and as a Sanskrit word, represented the opposite of German socialism; (2) That "Aryan," from the ancient Sanskrit concept, retained no conceptual relevance for German socialists.

The ancient term "swastika" is often translated as "good luck" or "well being" or "auspicious." The symbologist and etymologist Dr. Rex Curry has pointed out that the Sanskrit concept of "good luck" fit the National Socialist view (and every socialist's view, even today) of socialism.

"Swastika" and "Aryan" were conceptually related in Sanskrit, long before the NSGWP existed. People who oversimplify "swastika" as "good luck" also oversimplify the word "Aryan." In Sanskrit, "Swastika" had a similar meaning to the word "Aryan," because both included the sense of "fortunate" or "favored" as in a favored person, who belonged to a fortunate caste, class, or race. "Aryan" is probably related to the aristoi, the "most noble," of Greece (Aristotle, aristocracy, aristocrat). The related concept of "arch" creates nouns that signify people and groups having authority over others of their class (archbishop; archdiocese; archangel; archenemy, archrival) or "exemplary" (archetype). Aryan probably included "accomplished, skillful." The original meaning of the root, pertaining to "skillful assembly" or "union" might be seen in Latin ars "art," and "architect" and ordo ("order"). The term "Aryan" is related to the word "Iranian" (Iran or Persia).

Professor Curry has shown that the Sanskrit term "swastika" did not merely mean "good luck" in the modern sense, as is often said. For the higher classes (and for those who dreamed or aspired) the symbol meant that it was "good luck" to be in a high caste / race (read that as "Aryan class") and not the low class / race. In that way, the sanskrit concept is not dis-similar from the German Socialist use.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

It is often said that German National Socialists altered (and ruined) the "good luck" meaning of the symbol from its history in India and Asia. That leaves a lot out of the complete story. http://rexcurry.net/swastika.html

If swastikas had any "Aryan" etymology in the minds of German socialists, it was a common dictionary's second meaning: "noble" or "high rank." They used it to mean a "master race" or "noble class" or "ruling class." The swastika became an emblem for the cockamamy "super socialist man." http://rexcurry.net/george-bernard-shaw-superman-socialist-swastika-socialism.html

The swastika was sometimes used as alphabetical symbolism of overlapping S-letters for "socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers Party. It was turned 45 degrees to the horizontal (to highlight the S-letter) and oriented in the S-direction.
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In that way, the swastika did not change from a good-luck symbol for German socialists and their admirers. But for some of the world, the symbol became a bad-luck symbol for "socialism."

It is also consistent with India's historic socialism and, as a cosequence, its historic levels of poverty and misery.

It is consistent with the dogma of a mystical India-Germany promoter of National Socialism known as Savitri Devi. Known as the "Aryan Hindu prophetess," she authored a lengthy examination of the Hindu theory of cyclical history that included Hitler was an avatar or god come to earth. Born Maximiani Portas, she became a strong admirer of Hitler in the 1920s, moved to India in 1932 because of its caste segregation system, and took a Hindu name. Later, her writings were republished, and she gained new fans in the 1970s as new interest in National Socialism spread. Devi died in 1982, but the author boasted that her combination of Hindu religion and Nordic racial ideology became a bridge between National Socialism and the New Age movements. It was not the culture of India that drew Devi, but her belief that India represented the best of racial segregation. Once in India, she became interested in Hinduism and wed the Brahman A.K. Mukherji in a marriage of shared ideals that also happened to bolster her shaky legal status as a resident sympathizer with German National Socialism.

And there are older consistencies with the dogma of another mystical India-Germany promoter of National Socialism known as Madam Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society (established 1875 in New York). In 1888, Blavatsky's group joined with the American National Socialist Edward Bellamy and his Bellamy Clubs (Nationalist Clubs) to work for socialism. Edward Bellamy was the author of "Looking Backward" (1888) an international bestseller known as the bible of National Socialism, and translated into every major language (including German, Russian and Chinese). Edward Bellamy was cousin to Francis Bellamy, author of the "Pledge of Allegiance" (1892) the origin of the stiff-arm salute (the early salute to the Pledge), later adopted by the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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During the time that the American National Socialist Edward Bellamy worked with Blavatsky, she and the Theosophical Society used a swastika symbol. Thus the swastika's association with socialism began in the USA three decades before it was used in Germany by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

Before and after Bellamy's book, Blavatsky continued to promote socialism in Germany, India and worldwide. At the time this was written, the Theosophical Society of America (TSA) continued to maintain its Springfield Branch office at the Edward Bellamy House, 93 Church Street, Chicopee, MA and also its library.
http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html

The version of the swastika symbol adopted by German socialists is the same swastika used in Blavatsky's symbolic brooch.
http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-blavatsky-brooch.gif

That utopian socialism is consistent with the Bellamy dogma and with the totalitarian societies of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1939, the National Socialist German Workers Party joined as allies with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe, spreading WWII. Even after German socialism was defeated, Soviet socialists continued to pursue their part of the pact they had made with German socialists. Socialists in the USSR and in China went on to kill even more millions of people.

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Wikipedia is helping to announce the new discoveries. Opinion Editorials reported on the many references to Dr. Curry's research on Wikipedia. It might be the most referenced historical work of its kind on Wikipedia. Wikipedia writers have reviewed and verified the research. Some Wikipedia writers use it without attribution in apparent attempts to bolster their own credibility.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

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