[pissant]

A socialist is a socialist.

[D Rider]

Are/were Nazis leftist socialists, or right-wing fascists?

Socialist.

Fascism is a form of socialism where government controls everything, but everything is privately owned. A good example is what we called Hillary care. Under Hillary care each doctor could own his private practice, but he was told how much he had to pay his employees, who he could see and how much he could charge, all under penalty of law. Yet, if his business failed, it wasn't the governments fault, since it was the doctors practice. This is how the fascist form of socialism works.

Under communism the state owns everything, under fascism the state owns nothing, it just controls everything.

[donna]

Right, Left, and Center (excerpt)
12.04.02
Balint Vazsonyi

In the 1930’s, Josef Stalin urgently needed to create the appearance of a vast gulf between the Soviet brand of Socialism and Adolf Hitler’s, which the latter called National Socialism. So Stalin came up with “left” for his, and “right” for Hitler’s. Henceforth, “Left” would be the equivalent of “good.” “Right” - you guessed it - would stand for “bad.”

“Bingo,” said someone at New York’s New School for Social Research, “we have our political scenario. We don’t even have to bother to call the good people Left. We just call the bad people Right.”

http://www.balintvazsonyi.org/shns/shns120402.html

[paudio]

ping for later

[Sci Fi Guy]

Nazi were clearly left wing. They had an early alliance with Stalin. I think that part of the confusion, might be that facism was a popular world wide movement prior to WW2. Latin American had facist governments as well as spain and italy. Some Middle East nations are still run by Facist parties. After world war 2, facist and communists were enemies, so our simple minded media assumed left verses right.

Of course today, the MSM just uses the term right wing to mean anything bad.