[Final Authority]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal? I don't think those who wish to restrict the ability of the governed to redress the tyranny of those who govern are only liberal.

[saganite]

The better question to ask is the left in the US liberal in the old sense of the word or are they totalitarians.

[pgyanke]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal?

You don't "sound" like a FReeper...

Nazis are National Socialists... that's a definition. They are bedfellows of liberal socialists and communists.

[wideawake]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal?

If you mean: were the German National Socialists a left-wing movement? then the answer is yes, of course they were.

[jsmith48]

The Nazis were national Socialists, as far left as it gets.

Read Hayak's "Road to Serfdom".

[cruiserman]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal? I don't think those who wish to restrict the ability of the governed to redress the tyranny of those who govern are only liberal.

National Socialists German Workers' Party.

[Monitor]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal?

The offical name of the Nazi party is: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party).

So the Nazis were/are left-wing, in spite of today's leftists insisting otherwise.

[rfp1234]

Note that the word "liberal", just like the word "gay", has been hijacked by today's leftists. Most so-called "liberals" in the U.S. are equivalent to socialists or, at best, social democrats in most other countries. They call themselves liberal to mask their statist ideology. Nazism and Communism-Socialism are statist, anti-individualist ideologies. The Nazi party' official name was "National Socialist Workers' Party".

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal? I don't think those who wish to restrict the ability of the governed to redress the tyranny of those who govern are only liberal.

The Nazi's (EXACTLY like today's socialist/internationalist/liberals WERE TOTALLY FOR GOVERNMENT control. I'd actually go a bit further and be able to show that today's liberals (exhibited by the EU's Brussels bureaucrats and Hillary's democrat party thought police) that today's liberals are MORE oppressive than Hitler's Nazi party.

(One exception: Hitler demanded the direct extermination of the Jews and undesirable religious Christians, and Hillary's party is only willing to support the Muslim's indirect killing of the Jews and Christians. Hillary/Reno only murdered a few (armed) Christian groups. So far.)

Control of thought, action, response, and the details of life. Control of money, wages, healthcare, teaching, the number of eggs in a package and the forms one must use to to agree even to homeschool one's one children. Control of dress, of thought, and of what you say in public. Control of what you write, control of the internet and public radio and public TV.

Government control = today's "liberalism."