Also of interest is the question asked at the end of the article:
Many right-wing conspiracy believers insist that communists, nazis, fascists, and assorted Hitler-admirers belong together on the EXTREME LEFT side of a political spectrum, i.e. they are ALL "collectivists" and "socialists".One wonders, therefore, how conspiracy believers explain why Mullins (whom many right-wing individuals and organizations effusively praise as a “patriot”) nevertheless has spent so much of his life associating with, working with, writing for, and/or promoting and recommending such Hitler-admiring and, therefore, supposedly “collectivist”, and/or "leftist", and/or "socialist" individuals, groups and publications as:
Adolf Hitler
James Madole / National Renaissance Party Bulletin
National Socialist White People’s Party / Matt Koehl
William B. Wernecke / Nationalist Conservative Party
National States Rights Party / J.B. Stoner / Ed Fields / The Thunderbolt
Realpolitical Institute
Elizabeth Dilling / The Dilling Bulletin
Lyrl Clark Van Hyning / Women’s Voice
Maynard O. Nelsen / Democratic Nationalist Party
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It makes absolutely no sense to insist "Nazism was left wing" when it dovetails so nicely with right wing conspiracy theory. Personally, my political spectrum doesn't run from "total government" to "no government" since there are totalitarians and anarchists on both the Left and the Right. I believe Left and Right are defined by something other than the size of government advocated.
If one takes the view that the authentic right-wing in the West is orthodox Christianity, then Nazism is decidedly left-wing.
Its insistence on the primacy of the secular state over the Church, its hyperdarwinist placement of supposed genetic purity over religious devotion as the mark of human worth, its materialist doctrine of history, its Marcionist stance toward Jews and Judaism - it's a twentieth century melange of ideas concocted in the nineteenth century by decidedly anticlerical thinkers.
The most successful advocate of Nazism in America besides Margaret Sanger (a left-wing icon) was William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries.
Have you read that book? It's a fictional work about how the protagonist starts a "resistance movement" that ends with genocide of all non-Aryans in America. At the end of the book, with the enemies of the white race all eliminated, the new Aryan government puts all its loyal Aryan citizens to work on collective farms and enters them into breeding programs to produce even more superior specimens.
In China, they call that Maoism.
Actually, I'm surprised you've never noticed the direct link between the father of liberal higher criticism - Adolf von Harnack - and the Marcionism of the Reichskirche.