The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, otherwise known as the Nazi Party, was indeed socialist, and it had a lot in common with the modern left. Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist “exploitation” by capitalists — particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Their program called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion, and they denounced Christians as right-wing fanatics. Yet a popular myth persists that the Nazis themselves were right-wing extremists. This insidious lie biases the entire political landscape, and the time has come to expose it.
Don’t forget the smoking. No smoking in the clean, healthy nazi party.
I just received my copy of the book “Liberal Facism” after hearing about it on FR. It sounds like you have read the book? The first few pages sounds just like your post!
| The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, otherwise known as the Nazi Party, was indeed socialist, and it had a lot in common with the modern left. Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist “exploitation” by capitalists — particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Their program called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion, and they denounced Christians as right-wing fanatics. Yet a popular myth persists that the Nazis themselves were right-wing extremists. This insidious lie biases the entire political landscape, and the time has come to expose it. |
BTTT!
Read Jonah’s new book “Liberal Fascism”. It’s fascinating.
You can’t lump the Nazi style and methods with the communist methodology. The Nazi way was closer to fascist and modern progressive methodology and thought than communism, though the end state is the same: domination of the people by the government. Similar tactics and rhetoric of people to tell you that they know best to help you is to take individual rights and liberties away to make your life better is wrong any way you slice it. the worst is that we see both do not help pople in the long run but humans still are willing to try these systems that fail more than capitalism today. So, when do you think the fist national communes will be built to better our lives?
My two cents: The way I have explained it to my kids is that Nazism and communism are both collectivist totalitarian systems with a difference, that being the commies’ foundation was class struggle while the Nazis used race for their underpinnings.