Were Nazi's Socialists?

The Nazis of the 3rd Reich were officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party. There are many forms of socialism. The classic definition is social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. I doubt that our home grown red neck nazis have every read Karl marx or give a hoot about worker rights. Rather, they're more about white supremacy.

It certainly doesn't paint the German Nazi's as socialists.

Socialism is a Marxist, left wing ideology, and Nazis were adamantly anti-Marxist.

Nazis were right wing fascists, regardless of having “socialist” in their party’s name.

This nonsense is used to try to connect Nazis with liberals, and create distance between Nazis and the extremists on the right.

They were Fascists who developed a corporate oligarchy. There was nothing socialist about them except their original name. They did absolutely nothing to indicate any allegiance to socialist policy at all. The handed development over to corporate developers and allowed those interests to reap the profits. The only thing that even remotely resembled socialism was what they did with the Hitler Youth, creating a universal education system that every child had to participate in, but it really was more about brainwashing than socialism.

they were REALLY into Jewish/Roma/homosexual/etc healthcare too. Very socialist.

I hope you expound on all the other socialistic policies the Nazis had.

After all they were the German Democratic Republic.

The right wing canard that the nazis and other fascist authoritarians were 'socialists' is utter nonsense. Fascism is not a form of socialism.

In fact, he only used socialist in 1927 only to attract unions, who he then had arrested after he came to power, and shipped out to work camps.

After he banned the use of socialist, he said that all his government must instead use only the word Nazi.



https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert


https://fullfact.org/online/nazis-socialists/

Education was mostly socialized, the autobahn road, police, but private enterprize like Krups, Ford, Daimler, had big gov contracts, etc.

I think when the party started in the 1920s, the name Democratic Socialist Workers Party was meant to confuse and compete with the various other socialist parties at the time.

to tell me about the impact on the Night of the Ling Knives on the socialist wing of the party. They usually look at me blankly.

I find that question odd on DU.

The point of the video is to debunk the propaganda that's been fed to the public.

political junkies around, know this subject well and are definitely not the typical, unknowledgeable public.

Youtube is certainly the best place for it.

Not everyone has the same life experience (s.)

The Nazi's were not capitalists exactly, though they did approve of private ownership of the means of production. They were authoritarian and decidedly not democratic. However since the 1950's the right has been conflating authoritarian and communist, largely because the nations calling themselves communist were authoritarian. We also tend to view the Nazi's as somehow distinct from other fascist movements of the 1920's and 1930's, probably because anti-Semitism was always a core element for the Nazi's.

There are tons of descriptions and "rules" for deciding if some group is fascist, they tend to be tighter or looser depending on whether you want to make some group into fascists or not. I choose to look at Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism for guidance, organizations that pass muster on the Ur Fascist guidelines may not be fascist yet, but they have all the social building blocks in place and are ready to proceed.

A mass movement formed for the express purpose of wiping out Marxism and communism. “Socialism” lots of radical anti-communists could get behind.

Just because it has that name does not mean they subscribe to that ideology. For example, North Korea is officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, even though we know it is a communist dictatorship. Also, it has changed throughout the years. When people say it was Democrats who condoned slavery, keep in mind that really, what the Democrats were back then in the Civil War were what we would call conservative/right wing. They wanted to keep slavery. It was only within the last 60-70 years that it changed to what the current makeup is.

Nazism hated socialists and communists. That is why they attacked the Soviet Union. To say that Socialism and Nazism were the same would be like saying water can mix well with electricity, it doesn't. They spent a lot of time trying to get towards Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Were it not for help from the land-lease project, the Soviets, no matter how brutal they were, would probably have fallen. Now the thing is, Nazism is specifically a German ideology. While Italy did have many of the characteristics of Nazism, they actually didn't believe in the Nordicist views common in the United States and Germany at the time.

Back to the US, Republican and Democratic are the names of political parties, but as I said, they changed over the years, and what is defined now isn't what it was back then. From the beginning of the Civil War until the 1960s, the Democrats, particularly in the South, were actually what would be considered conservative. They hated the idea that ethnic minorities were given rights in the Civil Rights era and that slavery was abolished, and they still do to this day, particularly with the former.

They followed the racism.