Bfgrn
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I might just add, there was a entirely different party, called the Socialist Party, in Germany. Nazis were "National Socialists." They were nationalist, country first above all things, you must believe my ideas, or watch what you say, we'll torture you, kind of people. They were Fascists, not Socialists, and Fascism is that endpoint of the spectrum when Republicans keep on moving to the right, as they did during the Bush years.
except the political spectrum is a circle.....i always wonder about people that accuse others of things they temselves are doing all while trying to disarm the population and telling them what is good for them.....
If you are saying that totalitarianism, often mistaken for Marxism, can be reached from both sides, then yea, I agree. I think the conditions under Marxist Totalitarianism are quite different than under Fascism, as displayed in Germany, and Italy. And by the way, tyrannical leaders can manifest under any economic system, even ours. Look at Cheney, Rove, and Rummy.
Cheny, Rove, and Rummy are not Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, or Stalin. Try again.
Do you pea brains really believe an Adolph Hitler saw HIMSELF as evil?
"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality."
"Today Christians stand at the head of our country. I pledge that I will never tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit.... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past few years."
Adolf Hitler
The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872.
"While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives."
Robert Altmeyer