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Great informative read since there has been historical revisionism from folks on the political right like Jonah Goldberg.
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Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist." But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. ...
Honestly, if u think Hitler was a small government free market conservative (the real meaning of the word) then you are really deluded. He was a left wing totalitarian aspiring to rule the world.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler
Honestly, if u think Hitler was a small government free market conservative (the real meaning of the word) then you are really deluded. He was a left wing dictator aspiring to rule the world.
I know the two of you couldn't have read the link that fast.
I know the two of you couldn't have read the link that fast.
You can't expect a group who's knowledge of modern politics is fueled by hysterical sound bites to take the time to read a well thought out and logical essay on the finer details of history and politics. I'm only about 1/3rd through it myself.
Honestly, if u think Hitler was a small government free market conservative (the real meaning of the word) then you are really deluded. He was a left wing totalitarian aspiring to rule the world.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler
I know the two of you couldn't have read the link that fast.
It's the thread that is pathetic, not the article.
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far right?
