The Third Way
- Mussolini wrote: "To Fascism the world is not this material world, as it appears on the surface, where Man is an individual separated from all others and left to himself.... Fascism affirms the State as the true reality of the individual."
This collectivism is captured in the word fascism, which comes from the Latin fasces, meaning a bundle of rods with an axe in it. In economics, fascism was seen as a third way between laissez-faire capitalism and communism. Fascist thought acknowledged the roles of private property and the profit motive as legitimate incentives for productivity—provided that they did not conflict with the interests of the state.
Mussolini believed that economies did not operate constructively without supervision by the government. -
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
The right believes that a man is a individual and association is a matter of choice, not birth.
Hitler was named "Man of the Year" in 1938 by Time Magazine. They noted Hitler's anti-capitalistic economic policies:
"Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism."
http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id10.html
This fly in the face of Conservatism (right wing politics).
I got this in FReepmail and the poster has been banned. Thought I'd share. I replied with somthing like what I posted above. Motherland, Fatherland - nationalism - different economic structures.
From Nasahapeepematilon | 05/10/2004 5:47:37 PM PDT replied
"Anytime the words "right" and Hitler are used together you can be sure you are reading an idiot."
You are mistaken. National Socialism and fascism in general are to the extreme right of the political spectrum. If you are saying that this spectrum is at best a crude tool, then you are right, but according to all the standards of political science, Hitler was to the right. Don't just change the meaning of terms because they make you uncomfortable, or the terms stop having any meaning whatsoever.
The fact that Hitler never nationalized industry and percieved his mortal enemy to be Communism should be enough to show you that your statement is not accurate.
Nationalism by its very nature is right-wing, but the right wing isn't always necessarily Nationalist.