Please correct my confusion
Your profile says that you are a male from Germany however you made the statement "Did you know that Hitler was, mostly, a socialist??"
Nobody from Germany I have ever met questions that the word socialist in NAZI was anything other than a bait-and-switch by fascists who knew it was politically expedient post first World War. Their arch enemies were socialist who they called "Marxist".
They did not call them SINOs. They used much harsher language for socialists and communists. There were at least 42 plots to kill Hitler and many by the socialists.
Since it sparked a candid response already I might weigh in.
First, a Hitler quote: "I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists"
Also Hitler: Sent thousands of political opponents, a large proportion of whom actual socialists, to death camps.
Hitler certainly had some overlapping ideas with e.g. Marx. He was however above all preoccupied with race and the imagined superiority of his nation and race over others.
So, saying that "Did you know that Hitler was, mostly, a nationalist?" or "Did you know that Hitler was, mostly, a white supremacist?" would be accurate to larger degree. The Germans didn't elect him because of socialism. Nor was it the driving basis for him killing tens of millions (unlike in the Soviet Union and Mao's China where e.g. 'class struggle' and weird economic ideas were strongly contributing causes).
You trying to rewrite history ? Hitler was far right not a socialist. In fact, he tried to kill off all the communists in Germany ( plus the Jews, handicapped people, intellectuals, ... ). Trump like Hitler would run a facist regime with no elections if he were able to do so.
Ok,
so by all your definition,
a socialist cannot be a fascist.
Enlightning.
What a foolish bs.
Yes - socialists/communists (the party) were totally in confrontation with the NSDAP (Hitler).
Does not make them being democratic!
They still were dictatoric, still wanted ALL the power; just like in S.U.
However, their
electorate (!) had no problem swing-voting.
They just waited, who will be the ruler (H. or Stalin), to then get under his umbrella...
And they had no problem feeling GOOD under Hitler.
In addition, they are totally adoptable: They can go with 'we judge by skin colour' as well as 'we are The International';
does not matter, as long as they get their will.
Which is a socialistic, everybody is the same, society.
Without the right to possess material things/land, and without real indiv. rights.
And this is the real threat of socialism.
And today, I see the same stuff happening in america, by a large fraction:
Socialist powers, gathering together, forming street force,
to then storm public buildings, to pursue their opponents, and even, as we saw yesterday, KILL.
The reaction we saw during Trumps time in office.,
AND after it as well!
America has a HUGE socialist communist problem,
where the colour of your skin
always plays a huge role.
Which is somewhat strange...
Aren't they saying that the skin colour shouldn't play a vital role (?)
Same goes for sexual orienatation, and how the average citizen is being harassed with their 'ideas'.
Or do you want to call those socialist marxist "protestors" chanting anit semitic, anti american slurs all over the country, educated leftists & non-radicals ?
You want to sell me an egg as an apple, as we say...
BTW: Don't confuse them with original socialist advocates, that thought for real workers & civil rights, without seeking to change/dictate the society or starting revolutions.
The social movement actually has a noble root, but History tells a different evolution; at least when it comes to organized socialism (structural socialism).
