(02-12-2019, 11:27 AM)jj82284 Wrote: They don't know what they're saying.  If you notice, the "fascism is on the right" crowd never actually articulates what fascism is, German state theory, or its economic tenants.  They just repeat labels.

Fascism is has a few tenets:

• nations inevitably compete in war, and have to be fully mobilized to the government to win.  They must be ruled by a dictator in order to win, because multiparty states with checks and balances are slow and weak.
  
• nations inevitably compete in war, so the number one priority in economic development is not increasing the standard of living, but reducing dependence on foreign trade.
  

Hitler and Mussolini were both identified with the right wing in their countries before they took over as dictators.  Both of them had said that identity with the nation and race was more important than identifying with your social or economic class.  They both repudiated Marx on this point.

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(02-12-2019, 11:36 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(02-12-2019, 10:44 AM)rollerjag Wrote: It's called revisionist history, and the notion that Hitler was a socialist and not a fascist has been gaining ground since Trump's new tactic has become depicting Democrats as socialists to scare more into his fold.

Nazi is the English word for NSDAP... also known as the National Socialist German Workers Party. The revisionism comes from those that believe more government control is a far-right concept.

There were legitimate socialists in the Nazi party when it competed in elections.  The Nazis let them be included as part of a big-tent strategy in the elections.
Then they killed them all off.  Summary executions, no trial.  It was called the Night of the Long Knives.
They never bothered to change the name of the party, but it wasn't pretending to be socialist anymore.

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