/——/ And your point is???
The Nazis were first and foremost, nationalists. A right wing ideology.
Wasn't it obvious?
/——/ Since when are right wingers Socialists as in National Socialist?
Since it created the conditions for a unified and prosperous nation. It quelled social unrest.
It also wasn't socialism by any standard I recognize.
Too bad for you then Hitler was anti capitalist and admired Marx philosophy he and the upper echelon of the National Socialists German Workers Party considered themselves socialists and ran the econnomy as a socialist command economy. You may be butt hurt
to think the National Socialist German Workers Party were socialist but those are the facts. If I were a socialist I would be far more ashamed to associate myself with Stalin or Mao. Compared to the them Hitler was a piker.
I don't associate myself with any of them.
And Hitler did not admire Marxist philosophy. You discredit yourself. The Jews in Germany paid a terrible price for their perceived connection to Marx in the eyes of Hitler.
"The Jewish doctrine of Marxism repudiates the aristocratic principle of Nature and substitutes for it the eternal privilege of force and energy, numerical mass and its dead weight. Thus it denies the individual worth of the human personality, impugns the teaching that nationhood and race have a primary significance, and by doing this it takes away the very foundations of human existence and human civilization. If the Marxist teaching were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the universe, it would lead to the disappearance of all order that is conceivable to the human mind. And thus the adoption of such a law would provoke chaos in the structure of the greatest organism that we know, with the result that the inhabitants of this earthly planet would finally disappear. Should the Jew, with the aid of his Marxist creed, triumph over the people of this world, his Crown will be the funeral wreath of mankind, and this planet will once again follow its orbit through ether, without any human life on its surface, as it did millions of years ago."
Adolf Hitler[/QUOTe
The journals and diaries of some of Mr. Hitlers friends and associates are being analyed and we are getting a clearer picture of a very complex man. As for Mr. Hitlers view of Marx here are some quotes from conversations with his friends and associates.
"Hermann Rauschning, for example, a Danzig Nazi who knew Hitler before and after his accession to power in 1933, tells how in private Hitler acknowledged his profound debt to the Marxian tradition. "I have learned a great deal from Marxism" he once remarked, "as I do not hesitate to admit". He was proud of a knowledge of Marxist texts acquired in his student days before the First World War and later in a Bavarian prison, in 1924, after the failure of the Munich putsch.
The trouble with Weimar Republic politicians, he told Otto Wagener at much the same time, was that "they had never even read Marx", implying that no one who had failed to read so important an author could even begin to understand the modern world; in consequence, he went on, they imagined that the October revolution in 1917 had been "a private Russian affair", whereas in fact it had changed the whole course of human history! His differences with the communists, he explained, were less ideological than tactical. German communists he had known before he took power, he told Rauschning, thought politics meant talking and writing. They were mere pamphleteers, whereas "I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun", adding revealingly that "the whole of National Socialism" was based on Marx."
The Lost Literature of Socialism by George Watson
The leftist establishment has tried to disassociate itself from the National Socialism of the Germans by every hook or crook it could
devise but it is failing and as more and more information is made available a clearer understanding of that dark time will be had.
I understand why you don't wish to be associated with Mr. Stalin or Mr. they were however the longest lived leaders of the longes lived socialist nations so their influence must be recognized.
