[Fred Hayek]

National Socialism being called right wing actually originated from Stalin's propaganda organization shortly after Hitler betrayed Stalin, invading the Soviet Union. Many of the Nazi's, and Mussolini's Fascists for that matter, got their start in the Communist movement. The more correct view of the political spectrum is left being more government control, right being less. On the far left are the Communist regimes, and other dictatorships with government run command economies, including fascism and national socialism. On the true far right is anarchy - complete lack of government. Neither extreme works. For a further explanation of this, read Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. F. A. von Hayek was from the Austrian school of Economics, which called for the minimum of government involvement in economics, which ran completely against the philosophy of either Hitler or Stalin. Hayek's colleague Ludwig von Mises did not get out of Austria in time, was imprisoned by the Nazi's, and later died in the Soviet GULAG.

[highball]

I must respectfully disagree with you.

National Socialism is Fascism. Fascism is a far-right ideology, so far that it starts to meet up with the far left on the circle of political ideology.

We can pretend that National Socialism was the same as Socialism because it makes us feel farther from it, but we have to admit that some "conservatives" go too far and become Statists, even on this site.

[Kelly_2000]

Hi Fred Hayek

Thanks for that interesting explanation, and glad to have spoken with you. I will look up that book on amazon

Take care

kelly