Details: Obama Socialist Party Membership

[Sallow]

The NEW PARTY, now defunct, had LEFT wing opposition in the form of the Green Party. Where do you get "socialist" from.

Didn't you read the top of the paper?

"A Fair Economy."

That is code word for "public ownership of resources and production."

You're a free thinking libertarian. You know damn well Obama serves corporate interests first. That's the antithesis of a marxist.

Who do you think benefited the most from Dodd-Frank and Obamacare? Corporate America.

Big banks thank Obama for the competition killing regulation in Dodd-Frank, and big insurance companies thank him for the healthcare mandate.

Marxism is supposed to take from the top and give to the bottom. Obama's record so far has taken everything from the bottom and given it to the top.

Dodd-Frank kills competition, how exactly?

Oh..and I've worked for the financial industry for some 15 years. So do be specific.

I agree with you on ObamaCare. Huge gift to HMOs.

 

[Paulie]

Didn't you read the top of the paper?

"A Fair Economy."

That is code word for "public ownership of resources and production."

You're a free thinking libertarian. You know damn well Obama serves corporate interests first. That's the antithesis of a marxist.

Who do you think benefited the most from Dodd-Frank and Obamacare? Corporate America.

Big banks thank Obama for the competition killing regulation in Dodd-Frank, and big insurance companies thank him for the healthcare mandate.

Marxism is supposed to take from the top and give to the bottom. Obama's record so far has taken everything from the bottom and given it to the top.

Dodd-Frank kills competition, how exactly?

Oh..and I've worked for the financial industry for some 15 years. So do be specific.

I agree with you on ObamaCare. Huge gift to HMOs.

The fact that the government sets limits on credit products and mandates compensation rules puts smaller community banks at the most disadvantage because the mega banks can afford the extra financial burden this causes while the smaller banks are priced out of the market. The government can determine whether a bank is offering an unfair product and can ration credit. Who do you think gets hurt the most? You think the big banks are really hurting from the increased regulatory burden? Not if you look at the stock market they're not.

The smaller banks that had nothing to do with the financial crisis now pay the penalty of increased compliance cost that really doesn't do anything to hurt the large banks at the end of the day.

 

[KevinWestern]

Didn't you read the top of the paper?

"A Fair Economy."

That is code word for "public ownership of resources and production."

Not necessarily.

1.) What about when you have a situation where an industry giant uses its massive power to lobby congress to pass a bill that would somehow limit the innovation capabilities of a small competing company, in order to ensure that the giant will retain it's super hold on the industry - is that a fair economy?

2.) What about when you have a situation where an industry giant lobbies congress to make sure that only it gets a tax break, or a subsidy, via some obscure loophole, in order to give the company an edge over smaller competitors - is that a fair economy?

Saying that you "want a fair economy" is not interchangeable with saying that you want "public ownership of resources and production". It can simply mean that you want to correct some of the unfair advantages the industry superpowers have because of their enhanced access to Congress.

Often, it's the Capitalists who are the biggest threat to the Free Market.

 

[Intense]

The happiest place on earth is socialist....

For the past decade, social scientists and pollsters have given elaborate questionnaires to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. Two of the largest studies that rank the happiness of countries around the world are the World Map of Happiness from the University of Leiscester and the World Database of Happiness from Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University Rotterdam. All the happiness surveys ask people basically the same question: How happy are you?

"The answer you get is not only how they feel right now, but also how they feel about their entire life," explained Dan Buettner, who has studied happiness and longevity around the world through his Blue Zones project Buettner said that if you mine all the databases of universities and research centers, you'll find that the happiest place on earth is ? Denmark. Cold, dreary, unspectacular Denmark.

Could the Danes really be the happiest people in the world? When ABC News anchor Bill Weir traveled there to find out, he asked random Danes to rate themselves in terms of happiness, on a scale of one to 10. Many people rated themselves at least an eight, and there were several nines and 10s. Finally, one grouchy Dane came along who said she didn't believe Danes were so happy. But then she quickly conceded that she herself felt rather content with her life, and said Danes in general had very little to complain about.
Danes do have one potential complaint: high taxes. The happiest people in the world pay some of the highest taxes in the world -- between 50 percent and 70 percent of their incomes. In exchange, the government covers all health care and education, and spends more on children and the elderly than any country in the world per capita. With just 5.5 million people, the system is efficient, and people feel "tryghed" -- the Danish word for "tucked in" -- like a snug child.
Those high taxes have another effect. Since a banker can end up taking home as much money as an artist, people don't chose careers based on income or status. "They have this thing called 'Jante-lov,' which essentially says, 'You're no better then anybody else,'" said Buettner. "A garbage man can live in a middle-class neighborhood and hold his head high."

Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth - ABC News

Hey, great idea, let's send our undocumented workers there. It's for their oen good. Let's just start out with a small number, say, 6, or 12, or 18 Million. After they get Citizenship, we can double our efforts. We are only looking out for their own good.

Say what, Denmark's Infrastructure can't handle the overload? Why is that a factor? Why should that even matter?

Using the lily-white Danes as an example of socialism working. LOL

I know. Like they would even let us in. Lets Party!!!.... What??? What do you mean we don't have a Membership???

 

[Intense]

Didn't you read the top of the paper?

"A Fair Economy."

That is code word for "public ownership of resources and production."

Not necessarily.

1.) What about when you have a situation where an industry giant uses its massive power to lobby congress to pass a bill that would somehow limit the innovation capabilities of a small competing company, in order to ensure that the giant will retain it's super hold on the industry - is that a fair economy?

2.) What about when you have a situation where an industry giant lobbies congress to make sure that only it gets a tax break, or a subsidy, via some obscure loophole, in order to give the company an edge over smaller competitors - is that a fair economy?

Saying that you "want a fair economy" is not interchangeable with saying that you want "public ownership of resources and production". It can simply mean that you want to correct some of the unfair advantages the industry superpowers have because of their enhanced access to Congress.

Often, it's the Capitalists who are the biggest threat to the Free Market.

1) No.... That's a Hamilton Economy.

2) Same thing.

You know, the type of card game where the Government deals the cards, peaks at what it is holding, and then makes up the rules for that hand, and tells us only what it says we need to know. You should know that by now.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

The New Party is not The Socialist Party.

 

[Intense]

Rabid what? Are you denying the Church was involved in some remarkably bad events? Like the Spanish Inquisition? Or the Crusades? The Christian faiths don't even like each other, historically. And the bible is filled with all sorts of tales of genocide.

It took someone like Pope John Paul, to recognize this bad behavior and apologize for it. He also tried to bring all faiths together. Pope Benedict, given his Nazi past, was a remarkably bad choice, however.

Personally? I don't care..but if someone tries to muck up the history..heck..I will chime in.

To me..all religions are batshit crazy.

Let's distinguish between Human Nature, Religious Nature, and the battle between the two. Plenty of Truths on all sides to the equation for you to not have to make general misrepresentations. Still, I don't picture you an Honest Historian, Sallow. You approach the subject like a Bitch in Heat.

Well given your off putting pronouncement there, bucko..I would say your "honest historian" approach to the topic is somewhat questionable in itself.

But hey..if you guys don't want to talk about Hitler, Christianity..or religion in general.

It might be a good idea not to bring it up?

Eh?

Show me where I am not being honest. Hey it's Buckaroo, not Bucko. No point getting nastier, Flea Magnet. Hitler was a Socialist Despot. Just another label for Totalitarian Control heading the same way as the others. Nothing new there. I talk about Christianity all the time. What's your point or question? I talk about Religion.

 

[Intense]

The NEW PARTY, now defunct, had LEFT wing opposition in the form of the Green Party. Where do you get "socialist" from.

Didn't you read the top of the paper?

"A Fair Economy."

That is code word for "public ownership of resources and production."

You're a free thinking libertarian. You know damn well Obama serves corporate interests first. That's the antithesis of a marxist.

Who do you think benefited the most from Dodd-Frank and Obamacare? Corporate America.

Big banks thank Obama for the competition killing regulation in Dodd-Frank, and big insurance companies thank him for the healthcare mandate.

Marxism is supposed to take from the top and give to the bottom. Obama's record so far has taken everything from the bottom and given it to the top.

Obama serves State Capitalism First. Big difference. The Big Companies are already in the Noose.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Dumbass,

The Nazis created socilized medical care, they put production under the control of the Govt with select individuals (Nazi Party members) being the owners and raking in the money on the backs of Jew workers. They talked about a collective society, everyone pitching in.

They hated the communists because they were farther left and were.....SLAVS, Russians.....an inferior race to the German blonde machine.

Now, shut the fuck up.

The NEW PARTY, now defunct, had LEFT wing opposition in the form of the Green Party. Where do you get "socialist" from.

This argument is along the lines of "Hitler can't be a socialist because he put communists in prison."

It's just as stupid in both cases.

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. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.

Myth: Hitler was a leftist

 

[Old Rocks]

Dumbass,

The Nazis created socilized medical care, they put production under the control of the Govt with select individuals (Nazi Party members) being the owners and raking in the money on the backs of Jew workers. They talked about a collective society, everyone pitching in.

They hated the communists because they were farther left and were.....SLAVS, Russians.....an inferior race to the German blonde machine.

Now, shut the fuck up.

This argument is along the lines of "Hitler can't be a socialist because he put communists in prison."

It's just as stupid in both cases.

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. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.

Myth: Hitler was a leftist

Oh brother. Berzerk, you are one stupid ass. Check on the name Bismark for the source of socialized medicine in Germany.

 

[GoneBezerk]

The National Socialists supported socialized healthcare, go figure.....socialists like socialism.

The Nazis viewed the communists as competition for power in the country, so they suppressed them. It is like Democrats squashing the Green party, only 1 party can rule from the left.....idiot.

Dumbass,

The Nazis created socilized medical care, they put production under the control of the Govt with select individuals (Nazi Party members) being the owners and raking in the money on the backs of Jew workers. They talked about a collective society, everyone pitching in.

They hated the communists because they were farther left and were.....SLAVS, Russians.....an inferior race to the German blonde machine.

Now, shut the fuck up.

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. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.

Myth: Hitler was a leftist

Oh brother. Berzerk, you are one stupid ass. Check on the name Bismark for the source of socialized medicine in Germany.

 

[Vast LWC]

This argument is along the lines of "Hitler can't be a socialist because he put communists in prison."

It's just as stupid in both cases.

Hitler was not a Socialist, he was a Fascist.

Which Mussolini will tell you, is Corporatism, "as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

But hey, don't let Mussolini tell you about Fascism, I'm sure Sean Hannity knows much more about it.

 

[Vast LWC]

Dumbass,

The Nazis created socilized medical care, they put production under the control of the Govt with select individuals (Nazi Party members) being the owners and raking in the money on the backs of Jew workers. They talked about a collective society, everyone pitching in.

They hated the communists because they were farther left and were.....SLAVS, Russians.....an inferior race to the German blonde machine.

Now, shut the fuck up.

The Nazis merged corporations into giant Cartels, under the control of their buddies.

As Mussolini said, it was the merging of corporate and government power.

The Government didn't take over the corporations, the corporations merged with government.

And they didn't redistribute equally or "each according to their needs".

And certainly, 100%, subjugating a portion of the population, and making them an underclass (before exterminating them) is in no way in keeping with Marxist theory.

But again, don't take my word for it, or Mussolini's, I'm sure Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are much more knowledgeable. After all, they had those years of drug addiction in which to become experts.

 

[Intense]

This argument is along the lines of "Hitler can't be a socialist because he put communists in prison."

It's just as stupid in both cases.

Hitler was not a Socialist, he was a Fascist.

Which Mussolini will tell you, is Corporatism, "as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

But hey, don't let Mussolini tell you about Fascism, I'm sure Sean Hannity knows much more about it.

Yeah??? Who had control of the Courts, Cops, and Prisons??? Who controlled the Currency, the Banks??? Who took the Bullet when Hitler received a report he did not like???

It is all about Centralized Government Control. You point at Figure Heads, Marionettes, and proclaim, this is different, this is not like that, our brand is unlike any other, yet still the same mass murder results, the same Tyranny, the same end, Totalitarianism.

 

[Intense]

Dumbass,

The Nazis created socilized medical care, they put production under the control of the Govt with select individuals (Nazi Party members) being the owners and raking in the money on the backs of Jew workers. They talked about a collective society, everyone pitching in.

They hated the communists because they were farther left and were.....SLAVS, Russians.....an inferior race to the German blonde machine.

Now, shut the fuck up.

The Nazis merged corporations into giant Cartels, under the control of their buddies.

As Mussolini said, it was the merging of corporate and government power.

The Government didn't take over the corporations, the corporations merged with government.

And they didn't redistribute equally or "each according to their needs".

And certainly, 100%, subjugating a portion of the population, and making them an underclass (before exterminating them) is in no way in keeping with Marxist theory.

But again, don't take my word for it, or Mussolini's, I'm sure Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are much more knowledgeable. After all, they had those years of drug addiction in which to become experts.

Nobody distributes according to need in the end. That is the point. Human Nature is Selfish. Totalitarian Control places the needs of those in Power, over Everyone else. There is no Justice Served, only Reward for Loyalty. 2+2=5 for as long as you say so. 2+2=5? Yes or No. What is it Worth to You? 2+2=5 For as long as you say it does. End Scene.

 

[Vast LWC]

Yeah??? Who had control of the Courts, Cops, and Prisons??? Who controlled the Currency, the Banks??? Who took the Bullet when Hitler received a report he did not like???

It is all about Centralized Government Control. You point at Figure Heads, Marionettes, and proclaim, this is different, this is not like that, our brand is unlike any other, yet still the same mass murder results, the same Tyranny, the same end, Totalitarianism.

Yes, it is Totalitarianism.

That is utterly correct, and Totalitarianism is wrong as wrong can be.

But it is not necessarily Socialism.

And most certainly it's not in any way related to any of the Democratic Socialist governments in existence today.

 

[Zander]

Obama may be a socialist, or may be he's not. I don't give a hoot. What everyone does know is that he is incompetent. That is why a majority of voting Americans will vote to kick his skinny ass to the curb, and send him on a permanent vacation.

 

[Intense]

Yeah??? Who had control of the Courts, Cops, and Prisons??? Who controlled the Currency, the Banks??? Who took the Bullet when Hitler received a report he did not like???

It is all about Centralized Government Control. You point at Figure Heads, Marionettes, and proclaim, this is different, this is not like that, our brand is unlike any other, yet still the same mass murder results, the same Tyranny, the same end, Totalitarianism.

Yes, it is Totalitarianism.

That is utterly correct, and Totalitarianism is wrong as wrong can be.

But it is not Socialism.

And most certainly it's not in any way related to any of the Democratic Socialist governments in existence today.

For now. They are not yet that far corrupted. At the Time, his time, Socialism was his tool. Fortunately for us, Hitler was his own worst Enemy, and undermined his own efforts in WWII. He came very close. Fortunately for us his concept of true Socialism only applied to Pure Blooded Aryans. so in effect, his bigotry, was part of his weakness.





Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus) was the ideology and practice of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany.[1][2][3][4] It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism.[5] Nazism was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.[6] The ideology was developed first by Anton Drexler and then Adolf Hitler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, though such aspects were later downplayed in the 1930s to gain the support from industrial owners for the Nazis; focus was shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[8] Nazism promoted political violence, militarism, and war, it conceived of politics as being a "battle", and the Nazis utilized their paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA) for violent attacks upon those they opposed, particularly communists, Jews, and social democrats.[9] Hitler and the Nazis openly promoted German territorial expansionism into Eastern Europe to be Lebensraum ("living space") for German settlers that would result in the creation of a "Greater Germanic Realm".[10]

Nazism advocated the supremacy of the claimed Aryan master race over all other races.[11] Nazis viewed the progress of humanity as depending on the Aryans and believed that it could maintain its dominance only if it retained its purity and instinct for self-preservation.[12] They claimed that Jews were the greatest threat to the Aryan race.[13] They considered Jews a parasitic race that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure its self-preservation, such as capitalism, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, liberalism, Marxism, democracy, and trade unionism.[13] To maintain the purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[14] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were not targeted for extermination, but received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included: homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[14]

Nazism promoted an economic system that supported a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent while rejecting universal egalitarianism, retaining private property, freedom of contract, and promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend class distinction.[15][16] Hitler claimed that unconditional equality of opportunity for all able racially-sound Aryan German males in Germany was the essence of the socialism of German National Socialism.[17] This was known as völkisch equality that officially ascribed collective racial equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and full legal rights to able people of Aryan blood but deliberately excluded people outside of this definition who were regarded as inferior and rejected the conception of universal human equality.[18] The Nazis criminalized strikes by employees and lockouts by employers for being contrary to national unity and the state took over the approval process of setting wage and salary levels.[19]

The Nazis were presented by Hitler and other proponents and viewed by some scholars as being neither left-wing nor right-wing but politically syncretic.[20][21][22][23] However major elements of Nazism have been deemed as clearly far-right, such as its goals of the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.[24]

Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Vast LWC]

For now. They are not yet that far corrupted. At the Time, his time, Socialism was his tool. Fortunately for us, Hitler was his own worst Enemy, and undermined his own efforts in WWII. He came very close. Fortunately for us his concept of true Socialism only applied to Pure Blooded Aryans. so in effect, his bigotry, was part of his weakness.
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus) was the ideology and practice of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany.[1][2][3][4] It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism.[5] Nazism was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.[6] The ideology was developed first by Anton Drexler and then Adolf Hitler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, though such aspects were later downplayed in the 1930s to gain the support from industrial owners for the Nazis; focus was shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[8] Nazism promoted political violence, militarism, and war, it conceived of politics as being a "battle", and the Nazis utilized their paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA) for violent attacks upon those they opposed, particularly communists, Jews, and social democrats.[9] Hitler and the Nazis openly promoted German territorial expansionism into Eastern Europe to be Lebensraum ("living space") for German settlers that would result in the creation of a "Greater Germanic Realm".[10]

Nazism advocated the supremacy of the claimed Aryan master race over all other races.[11] Nazis viewed the progress of humanity as depending on the Aryans and believed that it could maintain its dominance only if it retained its purity and instinct for self-preservation.[12] They claimed that Jews were the greatest threat to the Aryan race.[13] They considered Jews a parasitic race that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure its self-preservation, such as capitalism, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, liberalism, Marxism, democracy, and trade unionism.[13] To maintain the purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[14] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were not targeted for extermination, but received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included: homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[14]

Nazism promoted an economic system that supported a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent while rejecting universal egalitarianism, retaining private property, freedom of contract, and promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend class distinction.[15][16] Hitler claimed that unconditional equality of opportunity for all able racially-sound Aryan German males in Germany was the essence of the socialism of German National Socialism.[17] This was known as völkisch equality that officially ascribed collective racial equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and full legal rights to able people of Aryan blood but deliberately excluded people outside of this definition who were regarded as inferior and rejected the conception of universal human equality.[18] The Nazis criminalized strikes by employees and lockouts by employers for being contrary to national unity and the state took over the approval process of setting wage and salary levels.[19]

The Nazis were presented by Hitler and other proponents and viewed by some scholars as being neither left-wing nor right-wing but politically syncretic.[20][21][22][23] However major elements of Nazism have been deemed as clearly far-right, such as its goals of the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.[24]

Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Excellent piece, which proves the point that Nazi Fascism was not Socialism, even though they used the label in the beginning to create a false image to draw popularity for their cause.

Just because Hitler liked to use the term "German Socialism" to describe something that was clearly not in fact socialism, doesn't make Hitler's statements accurate.

Hitler was an opportunist. He would have adapted any philosophy to gain power.

 

[Intense]

For now. They are not yet that far corrupted. At the Time, his time, Socialism was his tool. Fortunately for us, Hitler was his own worst Enemy, and undermined his own efforts in WWII. He came very close. Fortunately for us his concept of true Socialism only applied to Pure Blooded Aryans. so in effect, his bigotry, was part of his weakness.
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus) was the ideology and practice of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany.[1][2][3][4] It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism.[5] Nazism was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.[6] The ideology was developed first by Anton Drexler and then Adolf Hitler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, though such aspects were later downplayed in the 1930s to gain the support from industrial owners for the Nazis; focus was shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[8] Nazism promoted political violence, militarism, and war, it conceived of politics as being a "battle", and the Nazis utilized their paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA) for violent attacks upon those they opposed, particularly communists, Jews, and social democrats.[9] Hitler and the Nazis openly promoted German territorial expansionism into Eastern Europe to be Lebensraum ("living space") for German settlers that would result in the creation of a "Greater Germanic Realm".[10]

Nazism advocated the supremacy of the claimed Aryan master race over all other races.[11] Nazis viewed the progress of humanity as depending on the Aryans and believed that it could maintain its dominance only if it retained its purity and instinct for self-preservation.[12] They claimed that Jews were the greatest threat to the Aryan race.[13] They considered Jews a parasitic race that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure its self-preservation, such as capitalism, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, liberalism, Marxism, democracy, and trade unionism.[13] To maintain the purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[14] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were not targeted for extermination, but received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included: homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[14]

Nazism promoted an economic system that supported a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent while rejecting universal egalitarianism, retaining private property, freedom of contract, and promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend class distinction.[15][16] Hitler claimed that unconditional equality of opportunity for all able racially-sound Aryan German males in Germany was the essence of the socialism of German National Socialism.[17] This was known as völkisch equality that officially ascribed collective racial equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and full legal rights to able people of Aryan blood but deliberately excluded people outside of this definition who were regarded as inferior and rejected the conception of universal human equality.[18] The Nazis criminalized strikes by employees and lockouts by employers for being contrary to national unity and the state took over the approval process of setting wage and salary levels.[19]

The Nazis were presented by Hitler and other proponents and viewed by some scholars as being neither left-wing nor right-wing but politically syncretic.[20][21][22][23] However major elements of Nazism have been deemed as clearly far-right, such as its goals of the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.[24]

Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Excellent piece, which proves the point that Nazi Fascism was not Socialism, even though they used the label in the beginning to create a false image to draw popularity for their cause.

Just because Hitler liked to use the term "German Socialism" to describe something that was clearly not in fact socialism, doesn't make Hitler's statements accurate.

Hitler was an opportunist. He would have adapted any philosophy to gain power.

It has attributes of both. Both of which are Totalitarian by the way.