Posted on 01/26/2019 2:14:58 PM PST by Pontiac
Summary
Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist."
But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production.
In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state.
True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right.
He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.
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This guy seems to have a really idealized notion of Socialism. Anyone have any idea who he is?
Kangas need to place the meth pipe on the table and back away. Playing to the “heads full of mush” he is.
He was a lefty though. They goofed in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when showed him signing that book with his right hand!
“True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship — it can only be democratic.” Rubbish. Socialism is ALWAYS coercive. Marxists and Fascists are identical: they are all statists.
Socialism does not require worker ownership.
Socialism has the state owning the means.
Full-blown communism has the workers owning everything.
Socialisk is the transition stage from capitalism to communism and the communit state is set up as god guide to progress people from socialism to pure communism (which will never happen).
Guy is nuts right here. Knows not what he speaks of.
Liberals just don’t like to look in the mirror.
“I ran across this fantasy writing and had to share it with you Freepers”
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I can post a photo of a turd but why would I?
Nice try.
Fail to the Nth power (where N is very large).
But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production.
Democracy is mob rule. Tell me how that wont ever be “coercive”.
Constitutional republics are superior to democracies, in every way.
No kidding. The guy who wrote this killed himself 20 years ago. Not sure why it’s posted now (or ever).
Workers didn’t own squat in The Soviet Union.
Indeed.
Goebbels would have disagreed. He called the NSDAP the “German Left”.
This is false- socialism does not require both ownership and control of the means of production- that would be communism.
Socialism I that stage before communism when the government takes varying degrees of control over business but does not bear the burden or risks of owning it.
If nothing else, this is a great example of a strawman argument.
Hitler was clearly in the middle of the left. The left consisted of National socialists and International socialists.
At the end of WWII, the National Socialists had lost and the International Socialists had won.
The mass killings exposed in the Holocaust were exposed and put the National Socialists into disfavor.
The mass killings done by the International Socialists were kept hidden in Russia behind the Iron Curtain.
The idea that Hitler was on the right was concocted by the International Socialists after the war to provide a false choice between National Socialism and International Socialism.
Notice they did not leave any choice for limited government.
FIFY
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