Was Hitler right or left wing or neither?

[buckeye45_73]

Left wing. fascism is a part of socialism.
it's government backed capitalism or corporatism.
it was founded by socialists and every tennet within it is socialist
free healthcare
free college
gov owned banks and industries.

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

yeah in the same way China is capitalist....people are allowed to make a few bucks, but the govt tells you what to make, when to make it and if you don't comply....well......lets just say, being fired is the best case scenario.

I said fascism is capitalism backed by government, but in essence there is little difference between Hitler and Stalin.

The only problem is Capitalism isn't part of the true definition of Right-Wing.

Authoritarianism, Hierarchy, Traditional values, Religious values, these are what are considered Right-Wing.

In that sense, Nazis are Far-Right, and Republicans aren't.

That's how lefties define it
So Stalin was a right winger according to your definition.....which is complete bullshit

right wingers are pro capitalist, no socialist
right wingers are for smaller more limited government, not a huge all powerful central government

Look at Brexit, right wingers supported Britain breaking away, leftwinger opposed it, thinking the EU should control them.

The authoritarian thing is hilarious.....it comes from the fact that we support the military and the police. We do not like the police and military running things and say fucking over a duly elected President.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Hitler was far Right, something the U.S.A doesn't have.

The U.S.A mainly has two Liberal, Left Wing parties, the Republicans, and the Democrats.

Interesting that a European would say that. I disagree. The two main U.S. political parties have always leaned more right in comparison to similar respective parties in Europe.

Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe is far to the Right of America.

Americans are apparently more pro-Diversity, than the whole of Europe.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I suppose we might need to define what it means to be right or left wing? Would anyone like to take a crack at this?

The left wants to change society, the right wants to keep it the same as it was.

That's rather simplistic and wrong.

I don't know. Technically, it seems correct to me.

 

[buckeye45_73]

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the media discredits themselves....

they are full of partisan leftwing democrats.....how do you dispute that?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Hitler was far Right, something the U.S.A doesn't have.

The U.S.A mainly has two Liberal, Left Wing parties, the Republicans, and the Democrats.

Interesting that a European would say that. I disagree. The two main U.S. political parties have always leaned more right in comparison to similar respective parties in Europe.

Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe is far to the Right of America.

Americans are apparently more pro-Diversity, than the whole of Europe.

We are a diverse lot.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

yeah in the same way China is capitalist....people are allowed to make a few bucks, but the govt tells you what to make, when to make it and if you don't comply....well......lets just say, being fired is the best case scenario.

I said fascism is capitalism backed by government, but in essence there is little difference between Hitler and Stalin.

The only problem is Capitalism isn't part of the true definition of Right-Wing.

Authoritarianism, Hierarchy, Traditional values, Religious values, these are what are considered Right-Wing.

In that sense, Nazis are Far-Right, and Republicans aren't.

That's how lefties define it
So Stalin was a right winger according to your definition.....which is complete bullshit

right wingers are pro capitalist, no socialist
right wingers are for smaller more limited government, not a huge all powerful central government

Look at Brexit, right wingers supported Britain breaking away, leftwinger opposed it, thinking the EU should control them.

The authoritarian thing is hilarious.....it comes from the fact that we support the military and the police. We do not like the police and military running things and say fucking over a duly elected President.

I didn't say Republicans are Right-Wing, I'd say Republicans are far Left / Liberal.

Hitler's Far Right, Stalin's Center-Right, Democrats, and Republicans are Far Left.

Stalin made abortion illegal, made Gays as criminals, mass deported ethnic's out of Russian, and Polish living space, enforced extreme border security.

Stalin was really Right wing in comparison to Reagan, W Bush, and perhaps even Trump etc. etc.

 

[buckeye45_73]

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

yeah in the same way China is capitalist....people are allowed to make a few bucks, but the govt tells you what to make, when to make it and if you don't comply....well......lets just say, being fired is the best case scenario.

I said fascism is capitalism backed by government, but in essence there is little difference between Hitler and Stalin.

The only problem is Capitalism isn't part of the true definition of Right-Wing.

Authoritarianism, Hierarchy, Traditional values, Religious values, these are what are considered Right-Wing.

In that sense, Nazis are Far-Right, and Republicans aren't.

That's how lefties define it
So Stalin was a right winger according to your definition.....which is complete bullshit

right wingers are pro capitalist, no socialist
right wingers are for smaller more limited government, not a huge all powerful central government

Look at Brexit, right wingers supported Britain breaking away, leftwinger opposed it, thinking the EU should control them.

The authoritarian thing is hilarious.....it comes from the fact that we support the military and the police. We do not like the police and military running things and say fucking over a duly elected President.

I didn't say Republicans are Right-Wing, I'd say Republicans are far Left / Liberal.

Hitler's Far Right, Stalin's Center-Right, Democrats, and Republicans are Far Left.

Stalin made abortion illegal, made Gays criminals, mass deported ethnic's out of Russian, and Polish living space, enforced extreme border security.

Stalin was really Right wing in comparison to Reagan, W Bush, and perhaps even Trump etc. etc.

Well that is an obscure set of rules you are using. I've never thought of my self as left nor have I ever been called left.
To me there are two categories government and economics
capitalists are right wing
socialists are left wing
big government is left wing
small government is right wing
that is in America, Europe is slightly different because of monarchy.
traditionally pro monarchists were right wing, aka the conservative part of England
and anti monarchists were left wing, aka the labor party of England
While conservatives in England and now more capitalist and smaller government (somewhat), and while those things unite them and say republicans, another big part of it is culture and social issues.
So from a certain point of view I see your idea as monarchy to me is the same as communism/fascism and the rest of the large governments, but it has evolved into something quite different.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I suppose we might need to define what it means to be right or left wing? Would anyone like to take a crack at this?

Left wing. fascism is a part of socialism.
it's government backed capitalism or corporatism.
it was founded by socialists and every tennet within it is socialist
free healthcare
free college
gov owned banks and industries.

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.
At any rate, my point is more accurate. Hitler campaign speeches was peppered with his total dedication to private property as the basis of a good economy. However once he won, it was a different story. His own words - "There is no license any more, no private sphere where the individual belongs to himself."
Hitler believed that private industry must support the state, and when it didn't... he confiscated it. Happened 1000 times during his reign. Call it whatever you want - but that is not privatization. At all.

 

[Tilly]

Just look at his (socialist) policies.
Simples.

 

[buckeye45_73]

I suppose we might need to define what it means to be right or left wing? Would anyone like to take a crack at this?

Left wing. fascism is a part of socialism.
it's government backed capitalism or corporatism.
it was founded by socialists and every tennet within it is socialist
free healthcare
free college
gov owned banks and industries.

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.
At any rate, my point is more accurate. Hitler campaign speeches was peppered with his total dedication to private property as the basis of a good economy. However once he won, it was a different story. His own words - "There is no license any more, no private sphere where the individual belongs to himself."
Hitler believed that private industry must support the state, and when it didn't... he confiscated it. Happened 1000 times during his reign. Call it whatever you want - but that is not privatization. At all.

Esactaly, I mean the capitalists in NAZI Germany were just front men. They did what the NAZIS said, and if they didn't, confiscation was a good outcome for them. Death being another outcome.

 

[Some Guy]

The "right left" spectrum isn't a spectrum at all. Who would ever describe something one-dimensional as a "spectrum."

If you want to peg him into one of the parties we currently have, which of course the partisan retards always want to, you have some things to consider:

- He was a nationalist. Closer to today's right.
- He was an authoritarian. Both parties have this on lock.
- His government was fascist, in that government told private industry what to do. Much closer to today's left.
- He was imperialist. Closer to today's right.
- He was a racial purist. Closer to today's far right.
- He was a collectivist. Closer to today's left.

So all of you with your red and blue team jerseys on: you both have a pretty equal claim to Hitler. Congratulations.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I suppose we might need to define what it means to be right or left wing? Would anyone like to take a crack at this?

The left wants to change society, the right wants to keep it the same as it was.

That's rather simplistic and wrong.

I don't know. Technically, it seems correct to me.

"seems", maybe if you actually think about it, you'll see why it's wrong.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The "right left" spectrum isn't a spectrum at all. Who would ever describe something one-dimensional as a "spectrum."

If you want to peg him into one of the parties we currently have, which of course the partisan retards always want to, you have some things to consider:

- He was a nationalist. Closer to today's right.
- He was an authoritarian. Both parties have this on lock.
- His government was fascist, in that government told private industry what to do. Much closer to today's left.
- He was imperialist. Closer to today's right.
- He was a racial purist. Closer to today's far right.
- He was a collectivist. Closer to today's left.

So all of you with your red and blue team jerseys on: you both have a pretty equal claim to Hitler. Congratulations.

Precisely.

 

[Tehon]

I suppose we might need to define what it means to be right or left wing? Would anyone like to take a crack at this?

Left wing. fascism is a part of socialism.
it's government backed capitalism or corporatism.
it was founded by socialists and every tennet within it is socialist
free healthcare
free college
gov owned banks and industries.

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.
At any rate, my point is more accurate. Hitler campaign speeches was peppered with his total dedication to private property as the basis of a good economy. However once he won, it was a different story. His own words - "There is no license any more, no private sphere where the individual belongs to himself."
Hitler believed that private industry must support the state, and when it didn't... he confiscated it. Happened 1000 times during his reign. Call it whatever you want - but that is not privatization. At all.

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.

The National Socialist German Workers Party, properly abbreviated NSDAP, is the Nazi party. Lol

With that, you have provided no citation that supports your belief and you haven't refuted mine.

 

[Edgetho]

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth.

ALL of them

Candace Owens, along with Charlie Kirk, was shouted out of a restaurant in Philadelphia by a group of Antifa thugs. Apparently, it's now OK (again) for Democrats to harass black women in restaurants. What will be next, burning a cross on her lawn?

H/T Ace of Spades HQ

 

[Preacher]

Third Position - Wikipedia

If you people would READ Mein Kampf you would realize Hitler was neither left nor right he took from BOTH sides what was needed to make one of the great ideologies ever.He was Third Position he in Mein Kampf expressed disgust with International Socialism AND Capitalism...hence NATIONAL SOCIALISM....

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Left wing. fascism is a part of socialism.
it's government backed capitalism or corporatism.
it was founded by socialists and every tennet within it is socialist
free healthcare
free college
gov owned banks and industries.

Hitler privatized industry once belonging to the Weimer Republic.

Right wing, even by your ignorant standards.

No he didn't
He took businesses away from others and gave to party members...as long as they remained faithful to him they got to keep them....that is hardly privatizing.

He privatized State owned business.

The Great Depression had spurred state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany in the years prior to the Nazi political takeover. But when the National Socialist German Workers' Party took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[34]
Economy of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.
At any rate, my point is more accurate. Hitler campaign speeches was peppered with his total dedication to private property as the basis of a good economy. However once he won, it was a different story. His own words - "There is no license any more, no private sphere where the individual belongs to himself."
Hitler believed that private industry must support the state, and when it didn't... he confiscated it. Happened 1000 times during his reign. Call it whatever you want - but that is not privatization. At all.

Two things, you do realize that the NSGW Party and the Nazi party did not exist at same time? Hitler renamed it.

The National Socialist German Workers Party, properly abbreviated NSDAP, is the Nazi party. Lol

With that, you have provided no citation that supports your belief and you haven't refuted mine.

Heh...my bad...my memory did not serve me well...it was "Worker" that he took out not social.

 

[Edgetho]

Hitler was a socialist.

Period.

Most people don't know that Hitler and Stalin were actually Allies in the first two years of The War. Straight-up-FACT.

During that time period, the DISGUSTING FILTH in the Lame Stream Media hailed Hitler for tearing down the Colonialism of France and England.

Another FACT.

It wasn't until Hitler inexplicably invaded his Ally, the USSR, that public opinion (the LSM) turned against him.

You're talking to some of the dumbest fucks in the world in here. These dimocraps can't even take a shit without directions from their masters in the LSM.

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST

 

[deanrd]

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth.

ALL of them

Candace Owens, along with Charlie Kirk, was shouted out of a restaurant in Philadelphia by a group of Antifa thugs. Apparently, it's now OK (again) for Democrats to harass black women in restaurants. What will be next, burning a cross on her lawn?

H/T Ace of Spades HQ

How do you know they weren’t just repeating what Trump says at his rallies?
You know knock the crap out of them and stuff like that?

 

[JBond]

Obama, Hitler, And Exploding The Biggest Lie In History

“The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.” John T. Flynn

Numerous commentators have raised alarming comparisons between America’s recent economic foibles and Argentina’s fall “from breadbasket to basket case.” The U.S. pursues a similar path with her economy increasingly ensnared under the growing nexus of government control. Resources are redistributed for vote-buying welfare schemes, patronage style earmarks, and graft by unelected bureaucrats, quid pro quo with unions, issue groups and legions of lobbyists.

In Argentina, everyone acknowledges that fascism, state capitalism, corporatism – whatever – reflects very leftwing ideology. Eva Peron remains a liberal icon. President Obama’s Fabian policies (Keynesian economics) promise similar ends. His proposed infrastructure bank is just the latest gyration of corporatism. Why then are fascists consistently portrayed as conservatives?

In the Thirties, intellectuals smitten by progressivism considered limited, constitutional governance anachronistic. The Great Depression had apparently proven capitalism defunct. The remaining choice had narrowed between communism and fascism. Hitler was about an inch to the right of Stalin. Western intellectuals infatuated with Marxism thus associated fascism with the Right.





Later, Marxists from the Frankfurt School popularized this prevailing sentiment. Theodor Adorno in The Authoritarian Personality devised the “F” scale to demean conservatives as latent fascists. The label “fascist” has subsequently meant anyone liberals seek to ostracize or discredit.



Fascism is an amorphous ideology mobilizing an entire nation (Mussolini, Franco and Peron) or race (Hitler) for a common purpose. Leaders of industry, science, education, the arts and politics combine to shepherd society in an all encompassing quest. Hitler’s premise was a pure Aryan Germany capable of dominating Europe.

While he feinted right, Hitler and Stalin were natural bedfellows. Hitler mimicked Lenin’s path to totalitarian tyranny, parlaying crises into power. Nazis despised Marxists not over ideology, but because they had betrayed Germany in World War I and Nazis found it unconscionable that German communists yielded fealty to Slavs in Moscow.





The National Socialist German Workers Party staged elaborate marches with uniformed workers calling one another “comrade” while toting tools the way soldiers shoulder rifles. The bright red Nazi flag symbolized socialism in a “classless, casteless” Germany (white represents Aryanism). Fascist central planning was not egalitarian, but it divvied up economic rewards very similarly to communism: party membership and partnering with the state.

Where communists generally focused on class, Nazis fixated on race. Communists view life through the prism of a perpetual workers’ revolution. National Socialists used race as a metaphor to justify their nation’s engagement in an existential struggle.

As many have observed, substituting “Jews” for “capitalists” exposes strikingly similar thinking. But communists frequently hated Jews too and Hitler also abhorred capitalists, or “plutocrats” in Nazi speak. From afar, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany each reeked of plutocratic oligarchy. Both were false utilitarian Utopias that in practice merely empowered dictators.

The National Socialist German Workers Party is only Right if you are hopelessly Left. Or, ascribe to Marxist eschatology perceiving that history marches relentlessly towards the final implementation of socialist Utopia. Marx predicted state capitalism as the last desperate redoubt against the inevitable rise of the proletariat. The Soviets thus saw Nazis as segues to communism.





Interestingly, almost everywhere Marxism triumphed: Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc., all skipped the capitalist phase Marx thought pivotal. Instead, they slid straight from pre-industrial feudal conditions into communism; which essentially entailed reversion back to feudalism supplanting the traditional aristocracy with party cronyism – before dissolving into corrupted variants of state capitalism economically similar to fascism.

As usual, Marx got it backwards.

It’s also ironic that even as orthodox Marxism collapsed due to economic paralysis, cultural Marxism predicated on race, sex and identity politics thrives in “Capitalist” America. The multiculturalists substituted race where the Soviets and Maoists saw only class. America’s civic crusade has become political correctness, aka cultural Marxism, preoccupied with race. Socialism wheels around again.

While political correctness as manifest in the West is very anti-Nazi and those opposing multiculturalism primarily populate the Right, it’s false to confuse fascism with conservatism. Coupling negatives is not necessarily positive. Because the Nazis would likely detest something that conservatives also dislike indicates little harmony. Ohio State hates Michigan. Notre Dame does too, but Irish fans rarely root for the Buckeyes.

America’s most fascistic elements are ultra leftwing organizations like La Raza or the Congressional Black Caucus. These racial nationalists seek gain not through merit, but through the attainment of government privileges. What’s the difference between segregation and affirmative action? They are identical phenomena harnessing state auspices to impose racialist dogma.





The Nation of Islam and other Afrocentric movements, like the Nazis, even celebrate their own perverse racist mythology. Are Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright conservatives? Is Obama?

Racism does not exclusively plague the Right. Many American bigots manned the Left: ex-Klansman Hugo Black had an extremely left wing Supreme Court record, George Wallace was a New Deal style liberal – he just wanted welfare and social programs controlled by states. Communists always persecute minorities whenever in power.

The Nazis’ anti-Semitism derived indirectly from Karl Marx, who despite Jewish ancestry was deeply anti-Semitic. Bankers and other capitalists were disproportionately Jewish. Elsewhere, Jews played prominent roles. Before falling under Hitler’s sway, Mussolini’s inner circle was overly Jewish. Peron was the first leader to let Jews hold public office in Argentina. Franco, a Marana, welcomed Jews back into Spain for the first time since 1492 and famously thwarted Hitler by harboring Jewish refugees.

Very little of Hitler’s domestic activity was even remotely right wing. Europe views Left and Right differently, but here, free markets, limited constitutional government, family, church and tradition are the bedrocks of conservatism. The Nazis had a planned economy; eradicated federalism in favor of centralized government; considered church and family as competitors; and disavowed tradition wishing to restore Germany’s pre-Christian roots.

Despite Democrats’ pretensions every election, patriotism is clearly a conservative trait so Nazi foreign policy could be vaguely right wing, but how did Hitler’s aggression differ from Stalin’s? The peace movement evidenced liberals being duped as “useful idiots” more than pacifistic purity. Note the Left’s insistence on neutrality during the Hitler/Stalin pact and their urgent switch to militarism once Germany attacked.





After assuming power, Nazis strongly advocated “law and order.” Previously, they were antagonistic thugs, which mirrored the communists’ ascension. The Nazis outlawed unions perceiving them as competitors for labor’s loyalties, i.e. for precisely the same reason workers’ paradises like Communist China and Soviet Russia disallowed unions. To Nazis, the state sustained workers’ needs.

Even issues revealing similarity to American conservatism could also describe Stalin, Mao and many communists. This is not to suggest liberals and fascists are indistinguishable, but a fair assessment clearly shows if any similarities appear with American politics they reside more on the Left than Right.

On many issues the Nazis align quite agreeably with liberals. The Nazis enforced strict gun control, which made their agenda possible and highlights the necessity of an armed populace.

The Nazis separated church and state to marginalize religion’s influence. Hitler despised biblical morality and bourgeois (middle class) values. Crosses were ripped from the public square in favor of swastikas. Prayer in school was abolished and worship confined to churches. Church youth groups were forcibly absorbed into the Hitler Youth.





Hitler extolled public education, even banning private schools and instituting “a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program” controlled by Berlin. Similar to liberals’ cradle to career ideal, the Nazis established state administered early childhood development programs; “The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school as early as the beginning of understanding.”

Foreshadowing Michelle Obama, “The State is to care for elevating national health.” Nanny State intrusions reflect that persons are not sovereign, but belong to the state. Hitler even sought to outlaw meat after the war; blaming Germany’s health problems on the capitalist (i.e. Jewish) food industry. The Nazis idealized public service and smothered private charity with public programs.

Hitler’s election platform included “an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.” Nazi propaganda proclaimed, “No one shall go hungry! No one shall be cold!” Germany had universal healthcare and demanded that “the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood.” Obama would relish such a “jobs” program.

Nazi Germany was the fullest culmination of Margaret Sanger’s eugenic vision. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood, which changed its name from the American Birth Control Society after the holocaust surfaced. Although Nazi eugenics clearly differed from liberals’ abortion arguments today, that wasn’t necessarily true for their progressive forbears.





Germany was first to enact environmentalist economic policies promoting sustainable development and regulating pollution. The Nazis bought into Rousseau’s romanticized primitive man fantasies. Living “authentically” in environs unspoiled by capitalist industry was almost as cherished as pure Aryan lineage.

National Socialist economics were socialist, obviously, imposing top-down economic planning and social engineering. It was predicated on volkisch populism combining a Malthusian struggle for existence with a fetish for the “organic.” Like most socialists, wealth was thought static and “the common good supersede[d] the private good” in a Darwinist search for “applied biology” to boost greater Germany.

The Nazis distrusted markets and abused property rights, even advocating “confiscation of war profits” and “nationalization of associated industries.” Their platform demanded, “Communalization of the great warehouses” (department stores) and presaging modern set aside quotas on account of race or politics, “utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State.”

Nazi Germany progressively dominated her economy. Although many businesses were nominally private, the state determined what was produced in what quantities and at what prices. First, they unleashed massive inflation to finance their prolific spending on public works, welfare and military rearmament. They then enforced price and wage controls to mask currency debasement’s harmful impact. This spawned shortages as it must, so Berlin imposed rationing. When that failed, Albert Speer assumed complete power over production schedules, distribution channels and allowable profits.





Working for personal ends instead of the collective was as criminal in Nazi Germany as Soviet Russia. Norman Thomas, quadrennial Socialist Party presidential candidate, saw the correlation clearly, “both the communist and fascist revolutions definitely abolished laissez-faire capitalism in favor of one or another kind and degree of state capitalism. . . In no way was Hitler the tool of big business. He was its lenient master. So was Mussolini except that he was weaker.”

Mussolini recognized, “Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire(l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics.” Keynes saw the similarities too, admitting his theories, “can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state than . . . a large degree of laissez-faire.” Hitler built the autobahn, FDR the TVA. Propaganda notwithstanding, neither rejuvenated their economies.

FDR admired Mussolini because “the trains ran on time” and Stalin’s five year plans, but was jealous of Hitler whose economic tinkering appeared more successful than the New Deal. America wasn’t ready for FDR’s blatantly fascist Blue Eagle business model and the Supreme Court overturned several other socialist designs. The greatest dissimilarity between FDR and fascists was he enjoyed less success transforming society because the Constitution obstructed him.

Even using Republicans as proxies, there was little remotely conservative about fascism. Hitler and Mussolini were probably to the right of our left-leaning media and education establishments, but labeling Tea Partiers as fascists doesn’t indict the Right. It indicts those declaring so as radically Left.