The Nazi party was not as socialist as you might think. And Hitler was definitely not a socialist. Hitler's right-wing ideology was evident from the moment he put on a German uniform to fight in WW1. Right wingers constantly remind us how
those who serve exemplify the highest order of right wing patriotism. Well, folks, Hitler served. And though detractors have downplayed any heroics attributed to him, he was close enough to the fighting to be hospitalized after a gas attack.
So the obvious question arises: how did a decorated right-wing military Patriot become involved with the. SUPPOSED National Socialist Party? Hint: for those who read his seminal treatise, Mein Kampf, the answer is clear.
Therein, Hitler bares his soul and decries the evils of Communism and Jews. Karl Marx would not have recognized Mein Kampf as an adjunct to his philosophy. Nay, after reading it,
he would have regarded Hitler as an enemy.
So, Hitler, the veteran patriot , brimming with jingoistic ideology and dangerous notions of racial superiority searched for an avenue to power. His choices?
The political quandry in Germany after WW1
"For the first time in German history political parties had real power. They could determine policy and had patronage available for supporters. However, the large number of political parties made coalitions necessary and made it difficult to obtain and maintain legislative majorities. At times there were more than thirty political parties on the ballot although only about six commanded substantial voting blocs. Making life even more difficult for the Republic were extremist parties on both sides of the political spectrum who were opposed to the existence of the Republic itself.
The most important of these radical anti-Republican parties were the communists on the left and the National Socialists (Nazis) on the right. "
Yes, according to Professor Paul Bookbinder, University of Massachusetts Boston, the Nazis were a right wing extremist party despite the socialist implications of the name. I concur based on the empirical evidence gleaned from the historians who recorded the RW extremist views of the Nazis... The scion of intolerance. Is all to frequently parented by RW populism and racism.
Of the three choices open to Hitler, the right wing Nazis were more closely aligned with the principles outlined in Mein Kampf. Hatred for the Jews was already pervasive among Christian Germans and there was nothing akin to Marxism about that.
Mein Kampf sold well and.through it, Hitler had tapped into the jingoistic fervor
whereas Jews and Conmunists represented all that was wrong with Germany. Hitler was able to enshrine himself as the top cause celebre of the right wing populists movement. Whereas, he easily seduced the overlords of the NAZI party,
already inebriated by the spiked kool-aid of Mein Kampf.
You couldn't be more wrong.
You could try to be, but you wouldn't succeed.
Now....let's focus on the socialist programs of Adolph Hitler.
1. "After he was released in 1924, Hitler used the rest of the 1920’s to consolidate the Nazis and turn them into a nationwide movement. The SA (known colloquially as Brownshirts) were reorganized into an effective force of street activists, Hitler established his own national daily newspaper, the
Völkischer Beobachter, and continued to build his following and
spread his message of nationalism mixed with progressive social policies. The Nazi banner is a superb symbol of Hitler’s ideology – the red banner of socialism with the Aryan nationalist symbol of the swastika in the middle."
Adolf Hitler – Progressive Pioneer
2. Hitler's Socialist programs:
a) Highly Subsidized International vacation trips.
b) Between 1933-1938 Strength through Joy (KDF) movement Organized 134,000 theater and concert events for 32 million people. 2 million people went on cruises and weekend trips and 11 million went on theater trips.
c) Nazis ensured that every citizen had a Radio.
d) 5 day week.
e) Free Public Health.
f) Trade Unions were banned. All workers had to join German labor Front. Strikes for higher wages were banned. People who refused to work were imprisoned. With fall in Inflation, purchasing power increased and wages actually fell.
g) Large factories had to provide rest areas, cafeterias, dressing rooms, even playing fields and swimming pools
h) They also banned "lock outs" for industries. No "reverse strikes"for them either.
LIES YOUR TEACHER TAUGHT YOU: Nazi Hitler Economic Social and Political Policies
Nazis and Communists, Socialists and Fascists, Liberals and Progressives.....all six are Leftwing......
Sooooo....
never let anyone tell you that hoary old tale...'Communism, Leftwing, ......Nazis, Rightwing.
Both, as clearly proven in this thread, are Leftwing.
One more nail in your coffin?
3. "The
Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV), meaning
"National Socialist People's Welfare", was a social welfare organization during the Third Reich. The NSV was established in 1933,.... The NSV became established as the single Nazi Party welfare organ in May 1933.
[1] .... the programme was massively expanded, so that the régime deemed it worthy to be called the "greatest social institution in the world." One method of expansion was to absorb, or in NSDAP parlance coordinate, already existing but non-Nazi charity organizations. NSV was the second largest Nazi group organization by 1939, second only to the
German Labor Front.
The National Socialists provided a plethora of social welfare programs under the Nazi concept of
Volksgemeinschaft which promoted the collectivity of a “people’s community” where citizens would sacrifice themselves for the greater good. The NSV operated “8,000 day-nurseries” by 1939, and funded holiday homes for mothers, distributed additional food for large families, and was involved with a “wide variety of other facilities.”
[4]
The Nazi social welfare provisions included old age insurance, rent supplements, unemployment and disability benefits, old-age homes, interest-free loans for married couples, along with healthcare insurance, which was not decreed mandatory until 1941
[5]One of the NSV branches, the Office of Institutional and Special Welfare, was responsible “for travellers’ aid at railway stations; relief for ex-convicts; ‘support’ for re-migrants from abroad; assistance for the physically disabled, hard-of-hearing, deaf, mute, and blind; relief for the elderly, homeless and alcoholics; and the fight against illicit drugs and epidemics.”
These social welfare programs represented a Hitlerian endeavor to lift the community above the individual while promoting the wellbeing of all bona fide citizens. As Hitler told a reporter in 1934, he was determined to give Germans “the highest possible standard of living.”
National Socialist People's Welfare - Wikipedia
And you say???