dcraelin
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I can see 'conservativism' being used in the context of preserving the race but their government encompassed virtually every aspect of life. If you could work, you did work and you worked for the state, for the good of the state, doing what they said for the salary they said. That's a socialist system and it's why they named the party the way they did.Perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle. Here is Orwell on the topic in 1940
Orwell in a Mein Kampf review talking about an english edition "edited from a pro-Hitler angle". "For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism."
All of this has nothing to do with American conservatives here and now. Which I suspect was the true goal of the OP.
I certainly dont see crushing the labour movement as being socialist. I dont think many people would.