lolI'm so tired of listening to people chirrup "pfft Nazi is fascist and fascist is right wing and right wing is Republican and Republican is White and White is Nazi and Nazi is fascist" and so on and so on...
Nazis were not capitalists, people.
They were not Christians.
They were PROGRESSIVES and engaged in dangerous and frequently ignorant hero-worship of people who they thought were the arbiters of *science* and *intellect*. The Nazi party was founded by a bunch of young, smart, well educated dudes.
Those guys thought that all of Germany's problems could be cured by science and health, literally.
And they rejected Christianity because it put the lie to such nonsense.
They embraced eugenics..and rejected freedom of speech.
Who on our current political spectrum does that?
I'll tell you who...
The people who, like nazis, see everything through a filter of race.
The people who, like nazis, think children should be reared by the state.
The people who, like nazis, maintain capitalism is bad.
The people who. like nazis, seek to establish a single world order under their own ideology.
None of those are right wing tenets. All of those stances are symptomatic of radical, leftwing ideology.
Nazis are *right wing* only in their positioning, ideology-wise, to the marginal right side of marxism.
In fact, Nazis called marxists, *capitalists*, and reviled them for it. Which is a classic example of how propaganda worked then..and continues to work now...and is something else the nazis share with the left wing: their blatant and over the top use of propaganda to establish a false narrative that justifies the tyrannical and brutal acts of a murderous regime.
"Nazi rhetoric had become an integral part of a powerful anti-capitalist Zeitgeist, an ‘anti-system’ rallying cry that questioned the core principles of capitalism. Its proponents condemned its selfishness, materialism and unfairness, and instead demanded that the common good had to be protected from individual greed."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21567689.2013.820436?src=recsys&journalCode=ftmp21
This is as ignorant as it is ridiculous and wrong.
Fascism in general, and Nazism in particular, is on the right side of the political spectrum: authoritarian and reactionary, seeking to return one’s country to an idealized past that never actually existed to begin with, fear of change, fear of diversity, fear of dissent, and a desire to compel conformity with a propensity for bigotry and racism – all are attributes of rightwing political dogma, both with regard to the extremism exhibited by Nazis in the past and American conservatives today.
Which is a stupid argument. There are two types of government, collectivist, and individualist. Any government that holds power over its citizens is collectivist in nature. The ultimate form of individualistic government is NO government. Anarchy in other words. Every socialistic system on the planet is collectivist. Socialist, communist, fascist. They are ALL collectivist. Thus they are fundamentally the same. The only difference is the degree that they deny individual rights to their people.
Collectivists are generally way more Socially Conservative, and Nationalistic than Individualists.
Even the Communists have been.
Wrong. Collectivists are all COLLECTIVISTS. They are all the same house, just a different color.