I keep seeing liberals associate the Nazi flag with the “alt right”. Wasn’t he a socialist? Wasn’t he left wing? Obviously google shows a bunch of left wing crap. What’s the real story?
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I keep seeing liberals associate the Nazi flag with the “alt right”. Wasn’t he a socialist? Wasn’t he left wing? Obviously google shows a bunch of left wing crap. What’s the real story?
NAZI = National Socialist = Commie = left wing
Lets examine his policies:
-Housing for all
-Infrastructure with development of the Autobahn
-Developed VW so all German's could have access to a car
-Removal of all personal firearms
-Healthcare for all Germans
-Significant social safety nets and welfare
-Removing babies from dissidents to raise them by the state so they were raised "appropriately"
definitely didn't believe in individual liberty. socialist who scapegoats a certain race.
The biggest trick pulled here was the successful association of all things violent with the right wing.
KKK were deemed super far right despite their origins. Hitler and Nazis were portrayed in every movie as a right wing entity. Skin heads, same thing.
Nazi stands for German Workers Nationalist Socialist Party. They were left leaning. The term nazi came about as something that was catchy and avoided using the word socialist as it was losing popularity in Germany.
Not at all. “Nazi” is the first sound in the German pronunciation of National Socialist. They never referred to themselves as Nazis. Always “National Socialists”. They were leftist, but not communists. They wanted state “control” of Industry while they were individually owned (semi-capitalist). The socialist part is everyone had a job, nobody went hungry, etc...
Lol.
What an idiot
Socialists are communists
Communists are international socialists; Nazis were national socialists. Lots of common ground between them, though.
What an intriguing, compelling discussion. 🥱
As I understood it, the use of Nazi was to avoid bringing light to the word socialist in its entirety.
You mention Nazi is only the first sound of the term and this was my point.
They embraced the term “National Socialist”. They wanted, initially, in the Wehrmacht and SS, good National Socialist Soldiers. To them, Nazi is a pejorative term. The “Socialist” in National socialist in that era Germany was not a “negative” connotation. We view “socialist” as bad & communist. They, back then, did not.
I see where my mistake is. In the ‘20s, opponents to NDSAP used a shortened version of socialist, sozi, as a derogatory term. They absolutely were not embracing socialism.
It was the further tweaking of the name, by those opponents, that combined the first letters of national and socialist to get Nazi
I always thought the German workers party was trying to avoid the sozi term to gain more traction with less socialist people at the time. Learn something every day.
The "left/right" model was invented by leftist academics after the war specifically to counter the growing anti-communist sentiment. East Germany and later the U.S.S.R. actually outlawed calling the nazis (short for national socialists) socialists. That's where the habit of refering to them as fascists started.
Since then both just sort of lost meaning as they became little more than political insults in common parlance over the course of the cold war.
The fact of the matter is, the classic left vs right meme has totalitarian collectivism on both sides, so it isn't really a spectrum at all. It's a false choice that presumes some form of extreme collectivism is essential. The real political spectrum ranges from individualism to collectivism.
ALL THE BIGGEST ASSHOLES IN HISTORY ARE LEFT WING LUNATICS
Yes. The further right you go on the political spectrum, the less central government (“state”)control you believe in. The furthest left then want complete “state controlled” government. Hitler.