"The Nazis were not socialists." Yeah, the name National Socialist German Workers Party makes that clear. Right?
"They fit the definition of fascism more than socialism, ..." Fascism and Socialism are not mutually exclusive. Benito Mussolini started off as a stalwart of the Socialist Party until they kicked him out. You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me. - Benito Mussolini " ... in fact in the 1920's and 30's they were very violently opposed to socialism." Wrong. The Nazi's were opposed to Bolshevism. Hitler thought Bolshevism was controlled from the top to the bottom by Jews. There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communists always will. - Adolf Hitler Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings. - Adolf Hitler Another difference was the scope of socialism. Hitler didn't give a damn if the workers of the world united. He only cared that the workers of Germany united. Hence the "nationalist" part. In the end, all flavors of socialism are not the same. China's was different from the USSR. China's current version is different than the China of ten years ago. Cuba's is different from North Korea. Germany was different from Russia. One thing they do have in common is the dehumanization of its citizens. So, once again, I like your "Reich Wing". I think it is a great way to describe the progressive statist element of the political landscape. J - I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist to-day will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them. - Winston Churchill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346680 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
