Anti-Semite Finds Out He'a Jew
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WizardofOz
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drbrumley
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I'm sorry, but those charts are not accurate. To call a Nazi a extreme right wing is plain stupid...Nazi's are/were socialists, which means left wing...now one can say they are more right than an extreme leftist, but they are leftists..
WizardofOz
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That's the problem with 'left wing' versus 'right wing' comparisons. Geopolitical ideology is much more complex. It needs to be on an x/y axis and not a left to right scale. They may have been economic 'leftists' as seen by our modern eye but they were also staunchly against liberalism. Their socialism simply worked well ideologically with their nationalism, which was their most important goal. The Nazis had to eliminate class conflict within Germany so that all citizens would common good above personal interests.
| The majority of scholars identify Nazism in both theory and practice as a form of far-right politics. Far-right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements. Adolf Hitler and other proponents denied the view that Nazism was either left-wing or right-wing, instead they officially portrayed Nazism as a syncretic movement. In Mein Kampf Hitler directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany, saying: Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors ... But the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms. When asked whether he supported the "bourgeois right-wing", Hitler claimed that Nazism was not exclusively for any class, and he also indicated that it favoured neither the left nor the right, but preserved "pure" elements from both "camps", stating: "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism". |
In short, Nazism was a nationalist hodgepodge mess.
