Marion Morrison
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wrong!That you think there's little difference between socialism and fascism only serves to expose your ignorance.Really the same difference, socialism was the very name of Hitler's party. He acted far more left than anything else.Hitler was far more fascist than socialist.
Hitlers socialism is what happened to Germany, you're thinking of the wrong side of things.
Socialism is the enemy of individuality and any sort of freedom… Fact
Just as pointing to "socialist" being what Nazi's called themselves as evidence they were socialist does.
They were socialist like North Korea is Democratic.
Nazis were socialist, you Commie fuck. It's no secret you're a shill here.
They didn't allow very much private business.
Government controlled everything. The schools, business, you could get killed for listening to non-Nazi radio. Fuck right the hell off.
Right down to automobile manufacturing. Never heard of Volksvagen? Your theory=
The Myth: Adolf Hitler, starter of World War 2 in Europe and driving force behind the Holocaust, was a socialist.
The Truth: Hitler hated socialism and communism and worked to destroy these ideologies. Nazism, confused as it was, was based on race, and fundamentally different from class focused socialism.
Hitler as Conservative Weapon
Twenty-first-century commentators like to attack left leaning policies by calling them socialist, and occasionally follow this up by explaining how Hitler, the mass murdering dictator around whom the twentieth century pivoted, was a socialist himself.
There’s no way anyone can, or ever should, defend Hitler, and so things like health-care reform are equated with something terrible, a Nazi regime which sought to conquer an empire and commit several genocides. The problem is, this is a distortion of history.
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Hitler as the Scourge of Socialism
Richard Evans, in his magisterial three volume history of Nazi Germany, is quite clear on whether Hitler was a socialist: “…it would be wrong to see Nazism as a form of, or an outgrowth of, socialism.” (The Coming of the Third Reich, Evans, p. 173). Not only was Hitler not a socialist himself, nor a communist, but he actually hated these ideologies and did his utmost to eradicate them. At first this involved organizing bands of thugs to attack socialists in the street, but grew into invading Russia, in part to enslave the population and earn ‘living ‘ room for Germans, and in part to wipe out communism and ‘Bolshevism’.
The key element here is what Hitler did, believed and tried to create. Nazism, confused as it was, was fundamentally an ideology built around race, while socialism was entirely different: built around class. Hitler aimed to unite the right and left, including workers and their bosses, into a new German nation based on the racial identity of those in it.
Socialism, in contrast, was a class struggle, aiming to build a workers state, whatever race the worker was from. Nazism drew on a range of pan-German theories, which wanted to blend Aryan workers and Aryan magnates into a super Aryan state, which would involve the eradication of class focused socialism, as well as Judaism and other ideas deemed non-German.
When Hitler came to power he attempted to dismantle trade unions and the shell that remained loyal to him; he supported the actions of leading industrialists, actions far removed from socialism which tends to want the opposite. Hitler used the fear of socialism and communism as a way of terrifying middle and upper-class Germans into supporting him. Workers were targeted with slightly different propaganda, but these were promises simply to earn support, to get into power, and then to remake the workers along with everyone else into a racial state. There was to be no dictatorship of the proletariat as in socialism; there was just to be the dictatorship of the Fuhrer.
MUCH MORE TO READ HERE!
Was Adolf Hitler a Socialist? Debunking a Historical Myth
I'm sorry sister, copy/paste bullshit drivel does not an argument make.
Oh! You found an article that alludes to the opposite. Too bad it's not true and factual, and is full of fallacies.