[RexBeach]

YooHoo, Hugo. The Nazis were socialists.

[raptor29]

“YooHoo, Hugo. The Nazis were socialists.”

It is amazing how often that fact gets missed. What’s also interesting is that given the influx of Muslims into Germany, conditions in that country are primed for the emergence of another Hitler-mindset leader. Gonna be interesting to watch for the next few years.

[wolf78]

YooHoo, Hugo. The Nazis were socialists.

That depends on the definition of "socialist". If you define it, as it is usually done, in economic terms, they were neither left nor right. The Nazis' purely economic policies were more or less centrist, maybe with a slight slant towards the left. Trying to fit the Nazis on one-dimensional left-right-scale is inevitably doomed to fail. The point about the Nazis is that they were other things: racist, volkist, totalitarian, militarist, nationalist etc..

See: PoliticalCompass.org



Which doesn't make Chavez less wrong. Ironically, on the political compass he himself would probably find his place right between Hitler and Stalin.