NO because THEN as NOW the 'dictator of the day' tried to use language inappropriately in an attempt to get people THINKING his definitions were correct !
Once in a while, consult an ENGLISH dictionary as well as an American one. You might be surprised at just how many words Americans use that have a totally different meaning to the rest of the world.
To call them “socialists” in the modern sense offers very little in the way of explaining or describing Nazism. They called themselves that in part to sound legitimate, too.
Both left wing and right wing sides share in parts of Nazi ideals... Which is why both parties go back and forth with the whole "No, you're the Nazi!" thing...
@QuixoticSoul Plenty of laws and policies Hitler passed are things socialist ask to be passed as well.. So only seeing one side of the coin is exactly what you're doing. "No they're the Nazi.."
I'll stick to seeing the the subject as a whole.. Not one sided garble..
@AuRevoir [quote]Plenty of laws and policies Hitler passed are things socialist ask to be passed as well.. So only seeing one side of the coin is exactly what you're doing. "No they're the Nazi.."[/quote] Hitler's government did a lot of stuff, much of it the sort of stuff any government would do - a lot of it quite pragmatic and sometimes effective. That doesn't mean anything. For example, Hitler (eventually) presented and supported a plan for a national highway system. Later, the US implemented a national highway system. That doesn't mean we're nazis. It doesn't even mean that the policy is right or left wing - and you can probably present it from several perspectives.
The essential foundation and theory behind the third Reich is hyper-right wing.
[quote]One of the obvious things being big government.[/quote] That... is not a right or left thing, lmao. You realize that "The Left" includes [i]anarchists[/i], right? And democrats and republicans are [i]both[/i] "big government" parties.
Stop thinking of these things in terms of a strict line. Nazis are right wing, Communists are left wing - but that doesn't mean that democrats are communists, or that republicans are nazis. The left/right binary division covers a whole lot of quite unrelated groups and political philosophies.
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@QuixoticSoul Yeah, I agree. Big government is not right or left. I used to buy into the crap the right wingers were saying, but come on? They're both big government. The right-wing spends trillions on military but refuse to spend money on education and social welfare programs. Same as Hitler, he used deficit spending to grow the military but privatized social programs.
Respect yourself and do five seconds of research about the nonsense you shared. It's clear where you got the idea about Nazi's. It just sucks that you'd repeat bullshit.
@goldenorchid Hitler's policies were effective in a certain sense - but no, the plan was not socialist.
[quote]Hitler allied himself with leaders of German conservative and nationalist movements, and in January 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him chancellor. Hitler’s Third Reich had been born, and it was entirely fascist in character. Within two months Hitler achieved full dictatorial power through the Enabling Act. In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service, and trade unions were outlawed the following month.[/quote]
@Ynotisay Don't accuse people of being punks just because they have four accounts. I used to have four accounts here myself although I only have this one now.
