PostedSeptember 21, 2022, 6:45 PM
Korab Rashit“The reference to the German dictator does not exist”
By comparing today’s socialism to Nazism, a French-speaking Bernese MP shone the spotlight on him. Maintenance.
“Kora Rashiti mixes the socialism of today with the Nazism of yesteryear”, headlined “Le Journal du Jura”.
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Making socialism and Nazism rhyme is a declaration that is worth a volley of green wood to Korab Rashiti (UDC), a young Bernese deputy from Romand Gerolfingen. On social networks, this politician claimed that socialism is a political movement “historically ranked on the left”, but “at the origin of all dictatorships”. His posts on Facebook have earned him reprimands.
When asked for an appointment, Korab Rashiti takes tweezers: “The subject is delicate and requires a lot of nuance”. And further: “It is rather a theme intended for intellectual thought and the general public finds it difficult to make the nuance”. Let’s try anyway:
Why this comparison between socialism and Nazism?
“I started by defining an ideology like socialism, comparing and then listing dictatorships that use populism, economic constructs that are falsifications, half-truths,…”.
Wait: Populism is associated with the SVP, right?
“This party has evolved: I do not recognize myself in the SVP of 20 years ago…”
That of Zurich’s Christoph Blocher?
“Yes, in general. Focusing on one category of immigrants is discrimination, because you are attacking a particular community. There is a tendency today within leftist parties to have a focus on a minority of the population: the rich! They are systematically pointed at, but who are the rich? From how much money do you get rich? And if we tax the rich more, it will be better? That is populism, and each era has its target.
Is your opinion influenced by your origin?
“My childhood was happy in Biel, without significant problems. My parents did not influence me, even if my father, a writer and journalist, was involved in politics, organizing the first demonstrations to chant the liberation of Kosovo, in Macolin, which led to the end of the war in 1999. But I was too busy at that time, with a passion for history, economics and philosophy. I spend my free time reading and comparing everything. When I was 18 or 20, I announced myself to the Romand Socialist Party without being active, but I saw statements that were far from reality and from human nature. Lots of lies, false truths. Over time, I understood how a socialist discourse is constructed. Once it starts, there is an economic failure that makes power totalitarian…”.
And in the summer of 2020…
“…in the midst of a pandemic, I joined the SVP, while remaining libertarian, without accepting all the ideas of the party. In terms of energy, I want to decentralize and privatize”.
Why did you cross swords with the historian Raphael Racine?
“We are friends on Facebook. A week earlier, a Green Aargauer posted “Fuck please”. After a reply from the Aargau SVP national councilor Andreas Glarner, I wrote in a joking tone that with the left, we would have no more electricity and that they only needed a mustache to return to the 20s, posting a photo of socialism in 1917. Evoking a mustachioed era, but I was thinking more of Stalin than of Hitler”.
We made a mountain out of a mouse?
“Yes, in the thread of the discussion, I took the example of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia, socialist turned national socialist, who led to the genocide of Srebrenica. Put the church back in the middle of the village, between the extremes: fascism is an emanation of socialism”.
What label do you accept?
“I am a pure liberal, a libertarian of the Austrian school, a school of thought of an Austrian Jew blacklisted by the Nazis”.
Aren’t you divisive?
“I speak inconvenient truths. Take the Constitution which guarantees property: by what consensus do we want to steal part of people’s property? Politics is law! The three founding cantons agreed by contract, with the agreement of each owner. The pact was built on respect for property. We need a framework, which is no longer respected.
Are you the defender of the rich?
“No, that of individuals. The smallest minority is the individual. Democracy decides according to the law of the strongest, but the 49.9% retain intangible fundamental rights. This is called positive law, which protects the individual, regardless of the regime in place”.
We call for your resignation, then?
“What is the role of a deputy? To be the spokesperson for a political trend. In my statements, I did not offend anyone. I speak of the multiple and plural left, without hateful attack. The reference to the German dictator does not exist. I posted a quote that I erased because the mention of the source was missing.
