Quote: (10-26-2013 03:39 PM)Samseau Wrote:
You are confused Kosko. Fascism is a left-wing ideology. Always was, always will be.
Nazi = National Socialist
The war between the Communists and Nazi's were between two different types of Leftists, but they were all leftists nonetheless.
Right wingers are about individual power and less government intrusion.
This is a misunderstanding of 1930s-era semantics.
'Socialist' was to 1930s German politics what 'Change' was to American politics at the tail-end of the last decade. A meaningless buzzword with universally positive connotations in the eyes of the populace.
Socialists of the day would attest, that there was absolutely nothing at all ‘socialist’ about the Nazis beyond the word being used in the title of the Nazi party; indeed, it was socialists in the main with whom Hitler’s Brownshirts battled in the streets of Germany prior to Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933 and rounding up and execution of most of the socialists in Germany.
In the early days, Germans believed that the word ‘socialist’ in the Nazi party’s name actually did mean that Hitler’s party had socialist leanings and for a while Hitler was quite happy to allow the myth to continue as he built up the party’s numbers and strength using its following to give the party an air of popularity.
Nazism was at its core, hierarchical, whereas the ideological root of socialism was equality.