Glenn Beck is the dumb fuck who started the meme that nazis are left wing which was quickly taken up by the more retarded members of the Gnu Right.
Now he's saying Donald Trump is Saul Alinksky?
The Nazis WERE left wing.
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The majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as a form of
far-right politics.
[8] Far-right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate over other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements.
[9] Adolf Hitler and other proponents officially portrayed Nazism as being neither left- nor right-wing, but
syncretic.
[10][11] Hitler in
Mein Kampf directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany, saying:
Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors [...] But the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms.
[12]
Hitler, when asked whether he supported the "bourgeois right-wing", claimed that Nazism was not exclusively for any class, and indicated that it favoured neither the left nor the right, but preserved "pure" elements from both "camps", stating: "From the camp of bourgeois
tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the
materialism of the
Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism".
[13]
The Nazis were strongly influenced by the post–
World War I far-right in Germany, which held common beliefs such as anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism, and antisemitism, along with nationalism, contempt towards the
Treaty of Versailles, and condemnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 that later led to their signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
[14] A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist
Freikorps, paramilitary organisations that engaged in political violence after World War I.
[14] Initially, the post-World War I German far right was dominated by
monarchists, but the younger generation, who were associated with
Völkisch nationalism, were more radical and did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy.
[15] This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based upon a martial ruling ethic that could revive the "Spirit of 1914" that was associated with German national unity (
Volksgemeinschaft).
[15]
The Nazis, the far-right monarchist,
reactionary German National People's Party (DNVP), and others, such as monarchist officers of the German Army and several prominent industrialists, formed an alliance in opposition to the Weimar Republic on 11 October 1931 in
Bad Harzburg; officially known as the "National Front", but commonly referred to as the
Harzburg Front.
[16] The Nazis stated the alliance was purely tactical and there remained substantial differences with the DNVP. The Nazis described the DNVP as a bourgeois party and called themselves an anti-bourgeois party.
[16] After the elections in 1932, the alliance broke after the DNVP lost many of its seats in the Reichstag. The Nazis denounced them as "an insignificant heap of reactionaries".
[17] The DNVP responded by denouncing the Nazis for their socialism, their street violence, and the "economic experiments" that would take place if the Nazis rose to power.
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