ELON X.
2023-11-23 19:38:07 UTC
Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth
***@newsdemon.com
The Nazis co-opted the word "socialism" and meant something entirely
different
by it than did the actual socialists of the era. The Nazis absolutely did
*not*
mean economic collectivism, i.e. state ownership of the means of
production and
distribution, the hallmark of socialism. In fact, the Nazis *privatized*
industries that had been taken over by the state under the Weimar
republic.
What Hitler and the Nazis meant by their use of "socialism" was a sort of
cultural and Aryan identity collectivism. The Nazis were mortally opposed
to
Marxism, Leninism, "Fourierism," "Fabian" socialism, "democratic"
socialism, or
*any* of the traditional left-wing socialist philosophies. The Nazis were
not
left-wing by any stretch of the imagination. The claim that they were is a
lie
told by far right-wingnuts to try, unsuccessfully, to pretend there is
some
ideological distance between them and outright Nazis.
Nazis: extreme nationalism
Socialists: internationalist; national identity is bad
Nazis: indifferent to existence of private enterprise
Socialists: collectivist first and foremost regarding enterprise
Nazis: virulently racist
Socialists: anti-racist
Nazis: extreme reverence for the past and "traditional values"
Socialists: "progressive" - hostility to past and tradition
Nazis: romantic and folkloric; anti-intellectual
Socialists: "scientific" and pro-intellectual
Nazis: glorification of military and war as greatest expression of
national identity; effective military control of state
Socialists: military subordinate to civilian-controlled state
Nazis: aggressively expansionist through war
Socialists: passively expansionist through collapse of capitalist
economies due to capitalism's so-called "inherent contradiction"
Fascism and Nazism are right-wing, not left-wing. The revisionist effort
by
right-wingnuts to paint a contrary picture is a failure.
There is a reason that Nazis were major participants at the "unite the
right"
murder rally in Charlottesville in 2017. It's because they are and always
have
been extremist right-wing.
***@newsdemon.com
The Nazis co-opted the word "socialism" and meant something entirely
different
by it than did the actual socialists of the era. The Nazis absolutely did
*not*
mean economic collectivism, i.e. state ownership of the means of
production and
distribution, the hallmark of socialism. In fact, the Nazis *privatized*
industries that had been taken over by the state under the Weimar
republic.
What Hitler and the Nazis meant by their use of "socialism" was a sort of
cultural and Aryan identity collectivism. The Nazis were mortally opposed
to
Marxism, Leninism, "Fourierism," "Fabian" socialism, "democratic"
socialism, or
*any* of the traditional left-wing socialist philosophies. The Nazis were
not
left-wing by any stretch of the imagination. The claim that they were is a
lie
told by far right-wingnuts to try, unsuccessfully, to pretend there is
some
ideological distance between them and outright Nazis.
Nazis: extreme nationalism
Socialists: internationalist; national identity is bad
Nazis: indifferent to existence of private enterprise
Socialists: collectivist first and foremost regarding enterprise
Nazis: virulently racist
Socialists: anti-racist
Nazis: extreme reverence for the past and "traditional values"
Socialists: "progressive" - hostility to past and tradition
Nazis: romantic and folkloric; anti-intellectual
Socialists: "scientific" and pro-intellectual
Nazis: glorification of military and war as greatest expression of
national identity; effective military control of state
Socialists: military subordinate to civilian-controlled state
Nazis: aggressively expansionist through war
Socialists: passively expansionist through collapse of capitalist
economies due to capitalism's so-called "inherent contradiction"
Fascism and Nazism are right-wing, not left-wing. The revisionist effort
by
right-wingnuts to paint a contrary picture is a failure.
There is a reason that Nazis were major participants at the "unite the
right"
murder rally in Charlottesville in 2017. It's because they are and always
have
been extremist right-wing.