Were The Nazis Left Wing?

Clete

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This will likely be the last post I make on this thread unless I am shocked at the intellectual honesty that someone unexpectedly shows up here with....

The right vs. left, what's the difference? I cannot say it better than other already has...
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The right consists of free-market capitalists, who think the individual is the primary political unit, believes in property rights, and is generally distrustful of the administrative state and government solutions to social problems. They view family and civil institutions such as church as needed checks on state power. These people don’t think government should force a business to provide employee birth control or think law should coerce bakers to make cakes against their conscience. They think the solution to bad speech is more speech; the solution to gun violence is more guns. These people talk about “freedom” — the method individual decisions. (The counterexample might be gay marriage but that is a positive right (give me something) instead of a negative right (leave me alone)).

The left believes the opposite. These people are distrustful of the excesses and inequality capitalism produces. They give primacy to group rights and identity. They believe factors like race, ethnicity, and gender compose the primary political units. They don’t believe in strong property rights. They believe it is the government’s responsibility to solve social problems. They call for public intervention to “equalize” disparities and render our social fabric more inclusive (as they define it). They believe the free market has failed to solve issues like campaign finance, income inequality, minimum wage, access to healthcare, and righting past injustices. These people talk about “democracy” — the method of collective decisions.
By these definitions the Nazis were firmly on the left. National Socialism was a collectivist authoritarian movement run by “social justice warriors.” That this brand of “justice” benefited only some based on immutable characteristics perfectly aligns with the modern brand. The Nazi ideal embraced identity politics based on the primacy of the people or “volk” and invoked state-based solutions for every possible problem. It was nation-based socialism — the nation being especially important to those who bled in the Great War.

As Hayek wrote in 1933, the year the Nazis took power:
t is more than probable that the real meaning of the German revolution is that the long dreaded expansion of communism into the heart of Europe has taken place but is not recognized because the fundamental similarity of methods and ideas is hidden by the difference in phraseology and the privileged groups. - ‘The Road to Serfdom - emphasis added

Nazism and socialism competed with the Enlightenment-based individualism of Locke, Smith, Montesquieu, and others who profoundly influenced the American founding and define the modern American right at its best.

These thinkers fit easily with Hayek’s Austrian School of Economics, which opposed both the imperialist German Historical School and the Marxists. - from The Nazis Were Leftists, Deal With It by Paul H Jossey​


The fact that Nazism is left wing is the biggest no brainer in all of political theory and thought! It's perfectly asinine to think anything else! The only way anyone can suggest otherwise is if they are either lying in order to distance the left from the embarrassment of history that the Nazis are and instead pin that embarrassment onto their political rivals or else its because they are ignoramuses who believe what they are told by others on the left instead of reading and thus knowing for themselves not only the facts of history but of modern political thought. In short, the notion that Nazism is right wing is a product of the public school system, the decidedly left wing professoriate in higher education and the left wing media complex (i.e. the left in general).

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Rusha

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Eider will answer this for himself I'm sure but to pick up on a coupla points. Eider couldn't have voted for Hilary, the same as I couldn't as we both live in the UK. I wouldn't have voted for either her or Trump as they were both garbage candidates for office. Neither of us would "love the next Hitler" as we despised the first one. Why on earth would either of us want some far right wing, murdering regime in power? We wouldn't, at all.

In the US, there were three choices:

Third party or don’t vote
Democratic nominee
Republican nominee (in this case aided by Russia)

One of the main candidates were going to become POTUS, so the only moral choice is to vote against pure evil which is why I will again be voting against trump.
 

Arthur Brain

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This will likely be the last post I make on this thread unless I am shocked at the intellectual honesty that someone unexpectedly shows up here with....

The right vs. left, what's the difference? I cannot say it better than other already has...
.
The right consists of free-market capitalists, who think the individual is the primary political unit, believes in property rights, and is generally distrustful of the administrative state and government solutions to social problems. They view family and civil institutions such as church as needed checks on state power. These people don’t think government should force a business to provide employee birth control or think law should coerce bakers to make cakes against their conscience. They think the solution to bad speech is more speech; the solution to gun violence is more guns. These people talk about “freedom” — the method individual decisions. (The counterexample might be gay marriage but that is a positive right (give me something) instead of a negative right (leave me alone)).

The left believes the opposite. These people are distrustful of the excesses and inequality capitalism produces. They give primacy to group rights and identity. They believe factors like race, ethnicity, and gender compose the primary political units. They don’t believe in strong property rights. They believe it is the government’s responsibility to solve social problems. They call for public intervention to “equalize” disparities and render our social fabric more inclusive (as they define it). They believe the free market has failed to solve issues like campaign finance, income inequality, minimum wage, access to healthcare, and righting past injustices. These people talk about “democracy” — the method of collective decisions.
By these definitions the Nazis were firmly on the left. National Socialism was a collectivist authoritarian movement run by “social justice warriors.” That this brand of “justice” benefited only some based on immutable characteristics perfectly aligns with the modern brand. The Nazi ideal embraced identity politics based on the primacy of the people or “volk” and invoked state-based solutions for every possible problem. It was nation-based socialism — the nation being especially important to those who bled in the Great War.

As Hayek wrote in 1933, the year the Nazis took power:
t is more than probable that the real meaning of the German revolution is that the long dreaded expansion of communism into the heart of Europe has taken place but is not recognized because the fundamental similarity of methods and ideas is hidden by the difference in phraseology and the privileged groups. - ‘The Road to Serfdom - emphasis added

Nazism and socialism competed with the Enlightenment-based individualism of Locke, Smith, Montesquieu, and others who profoundly influenced the American founding and define the modern American right at its best.

These thinkers fit easily with Hayek’s Austrian School of Economics, which opposed both the imperialist German Historical School and the Marxists. - from The Nazis Were Leftists, Deal With It by Paul H Jossey​


The fact that Nazism is left wing is the biggest no brainer in all of political theory and thought! It's perfectly asinine to think anything else! The only way anyone can suggest otherwise is if they are either lying in order to distance the left from the embarrassment of history that the Nazis are and instead pin that embarrassment onto their political rivals or else its because they are ignoramuses who believe what they are told by others on the left instead of reading and thus knowing for themselves not only the facts of history but of modern political thought. In short, the notion that Nazism is right wing is a product of the public school system, the decidedly left wing professoriate in higher education and the left wing media complex (i.e. the left in general).

Clete

Ya know, shouting something as if it makes it true isn't at all impressive and nor is the waffling definition that this guy gives to "left" and "right". It doesn't encapsulate either in any meaningful sense and is actually pretty ignorant in some areas.

It's not a "fact" that Nazism is "left wing" because it quite simply isn't. It's not conservative by any stretch either but it is far right and the only reason you're ranting away on the matter is because you're far right and don't want to be associated with the likes of such an extremist, murderous regime. I can't blame you but considering that you advocate for the execution of homosexuals then you have more in common with Nazism than a "liberal" ever would, no matter what your reasoning for such a position. Likewise, there's nothing "liberal" about wishing to persecute and murder people for being of a different race or creed, or political belief. White nationalists are far right, simple as that. You can rant all you want Clete, the asininity of trying to claim the Nazis were left wing is simply on you and any other kook who tries to warp actuality into the imaginary. Sane, informed, objective commentary calls Nazism for what it is, your ire notwithstanding.
 

Arthur Brain

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In the US, there were three choices:

Third party or don’t vote
Democratic nominee
Republican nominee (in this case aided by Russia)

One of the main candidates were going to become POTUS, so the only moral choice is to vote against pure evil which is why I will again be voting against trump.

You're not going to vote for Trump?! :shocked:

:eek:

I see he's got his panties in a bunch over Twitter now...
 

Clete

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Ya know, shouting something as if it makes it true isn't at all impressive and nor is the waffling definition that this guy gives to "left" and "right". It doesn't encapsulate either in any meaningful sense and is actually pretty ignorant in some areas.

It's not a "fact" that Nazism is "left wing" because it quite simply isn't. It's not conservative by any stretch either but it is far right and the only reason you're ranting away on the matter is because you're far right and don't want to be associated with the likes of such an extremist, murderous regime. I can't blame you but considering that you advocate for the execution of homosexuals then you have more in common with Nazism than a "liberal" ever would, no matter what your reasoning for such a position. Likewise, there's nothing "liberal" about wishing to persecute and murder people for being of a different race or creed, or political belief. White nationalists are far right, simple as that. You can rant all you want Clete, the asininity of trying to claim the Nazis were left wing is simply on you and any other kook who tries to warp actuality into the imaginary. Sane, informed, objective commentary calls Nazism for what it is, your ire notwithstanding.

Yes, it is a fact. There's no one here yelling. It is you who make bald assertions and lie, not me.

Good bye Arthur. As usual you have once again proven to be incapable of intelligent discussion.
 

Arthur Brain

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Yes, it is a fact. There's no one here yelling. It is you who make bald assertions and lie, not me.

Good bye Arthur. As usual you have once again proven to be incapable of intelligent discussion.

Um, no, I've not lied at all on here and no, it is not a fact in any way that the Nazis were left wing as they weren't which is obvious to anyone who doesn't have some massive axe to grind. They were far right and rightfully classed as being so. I notice you never address how what you support (executing homosexuals) ties in with what the Nazis did and how that couldn't remotely be construed as liberal. To be fair, there's no argument you could make is there?

Your last is more than a little ironic but hardly surprising.

:e4e:
 

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I am using a common definition.
I'm using this definition:

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Clete

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Funny, Trump is the one threatening regulations on social media...

Because they can't pretend they're a forum and control the context at the same time. If they want to be forum then fine but they're trying to have it both ways and Trump is right not to let them.

What's funny is that the best thing that ever happened to Twitter was Donald H.Trump!
I, for one, hope, you morons on the left succeed in pressuring Twtter into banning him! It would end Twitter almost over night and all Trump would do is start posting somewhere else and whatever forum he chose to use would explode into ubiquity the same way Zoom has since the Wuhan Virus shut down happened.
 

Arthur Brain

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Because they can't pretend they're a forum and control the context at the same time. If they want to be forum then fine but they're trying to have it both ways and Trump is right not to let them.

What's funny is that the best thing that ever happened to Twitter was Donald H.Trump!
I, for one, hope, you morons on the left succeed in pressuring Twtter into banning him! It would end Twitter almost over night and all Trump would do is start posting somewhere else and whatever forum he chose to use would explode into ubiquity the same way Zoom has since the Wuhan Virus shut down happened.

Oh, I wouldn't want him to be banned, why on earth would you think that? I'd sooner he's free to continue making a complete clown of himself, man child that he is.
 

Arthur Brain

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I'm using this definition:

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Hmm, interesting. So you think that a far right conspiracy theorist who served an eight month term in a half way house and was fined $30,000 for making an illegal campaign contribution to the 2012 senate campaign is a reliable source do you?
 

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Oh, I wouldn't want him to be banned, why on earth would you think that? I'd sooner he's free to continue making a complete clown of himself, man child that he is.

I would like to see him banned ... from social media, the government and the US.
 
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