Why the Nazis Weren't Socialists

[MosheFeingold]

7. Left vs. Right

Is really a stupid comparison, especially since they mean pretty different things depending on where you are.

I've always thought a 2 or 3 axis system would be much more useful -- to use an old Dungeons & Dragons idea of lawful vs. chaotic and good vs. evil.

Fascism requires complete government control --- the Nazis happened to use socialism (or at least socialist talk) to achieve complete government control. But it just as easily could have been a quasi-feudal religious monarchy (Japan) or some sort of quasi-cronie-capitalist (Italy).

This is why I am a small-government social liberal.

Any government big and powerful enough to do everything is powerful enough that Donald Trump (or Hitler or Stalin) can do anything -- and politics attracts really crappy people, both sides of the aisle. I'd like to de-power all of them.