g5000
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The only time Hitler used the term "capitalists" is when he was referring to "international capitalists", that is, the bankers who were trying to dominate the world and interfere in the internal affairs of Germany. Bankers he believed were predominantly Jewish.Did you enjoy the parts where Hitler talked about bringing the capitalists to heel in order that they serve the state and the drive toward socialism?
Germany had lost World War I and had been saddled with impossible reparations to pay for the Allies' war debts. He believed Germany's problems were due to the international Jewish bankers demanding their loans be paid back. These "international capitalists" were suffocating the German economy and autonomy.
The sole reason the uneducated and credulous believe the Nazis were left wing is "because Socialism is right there in their name, and Socialism is left wing!"
But that word meant an entirely different thing to Hitler, and he went to great lengths in Mein Kampf to explain his visceral opposition to leftist socialism. He goes on and on about it.
Hitler's use of red and "socialist" was a psyop.
So here's another quote for you:
The fact that we had chosen red as the colour for our posters sufficed to attract them to our meetings. The ordinary bourgeoisie were very shocked to see that, we had also chosen the symbolic red of Bolshevism and they regarded this as something ambiguously significant. The suspicion was whispered in German Nationalist circles that we also were merely another variety of Marxism, perhaps even Marxists suitably disguised, or better still, Socialists.