I saw many Americans calling nazis left and liberal
I just had a debate with
Lisa558
She thinks nazis were only about jews
They blamed jews for every perceived or real evil and wanted to exterminate them
But they were not only about jews thats why they are similar to American right
They also had other aspects like white supremacy do you think they considered blacks as equal? Also blood and soil like what they call white ethnostate nowadays and some social norms like being against degenerate art and gays
They were not only about jews
Thats why some today white nationalists still like them do you think they would approve of brown immigrants or blacks?
That's an interesting viewpoint. However it's mostly Soviet propaganda from the 50's.
You associate the right wing with racism, but actually leftists are the original racists, in America and all over the world. In America leftists started the Ku Klux Klan, arguably "the" most notorious racist institution ever in the US. It was Democrats who voted against civil rights, consistently, even through the mid 60's.
To really understand Nazi Germany, you have to dig through history. First of all, Germany is the original welfare state. It started in the late 1800's, and really took hold in the early 1900's. By 1930, most Germans were socialists.
Karl Marx was German. So was Friedrich Engels. The communist ideology started in Germany in the early 1900's. By 1930 your voting choices were either socialism or communism. The Nazis, Communists, and Socialists were competitors at the voting booth. That is the reason Hitler ended up against the Communists and the traditional socialists.
The Nazis ideology was just a flavor of socialism. It wasn't Communist because lots of Jews were communists and they got blamed for social and economic ills. Nazis were anything BUT right wing. The right wing of politics is associated with monarchy, in Germany that would have been the Kaisers, tracing all the way back to the Hapsburgs. In 1930, no one in Germany wanted monarchy in any form, they blamed the Kaisers for the loss of WW1 and the mess that followed.
Nazis are left wing authoritarians. Even today, the genuine American Nazis are all socialists. There used to be one on this board, he left because he couldn't get any traction. But you can read his posts, there's nothing right wing about them.
It is a mistake to associate the right wing with racism. In modern America, the Ku Klux Klan is full of Indians (real ones, not American Indians). Skinheads aren't right wing politically, they're just assholes. Most of them use or sell drugs (meth) these days. There are barely a handful of white supremacists left in the US, and only very few of them are right wing politically. Most of the are in fact left wing authoritarians, just like the old days.
You have to understand that in order to succeed, communism and socialism require universal participation. That is where the authoritarianism comes in. The US Democrats are the same way, they don't tolerate any deviation from the party line.
Whereas the political right wing is all over the map, there are libertarians, Trumpers, never-Trumpers, Neo-Cons, and even a few monarchists. It's true diversity, not the manufactured left wing kind that tries to create an excuse for social misfits and outcasts.
Real Nazis are very dangerous. They're seductive, politically. But the utopia never materializes. It can't, because authoritarianism is always needed to make it work. And the result is very ugly indeed