Quote:From <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party'>Wikipedia</a>,

Party

(<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English'>/ˈnɑːtsi/
</a>
), was a <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party'>political party
</a> in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism'>Nazism
</a>. Its predecessor, the <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party'>German Workers' Party
</a> (DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920.
The party emerged from the <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationalism'>German nationalist
</a>
, <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism'>racist
</a> and <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism'>populist
</a> <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps'>Freikorps
</a> paramilitary culture, which fought against the<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist'>communist
</a> uprisings in post-<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I'>World War I
</a> Germany.^{<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#cite_note-stormtroopers-6'>[6]
</a>} The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.

^{<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#cite_note-stormtroopers2-7'>[7]
</a>} Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_business'>anti-big business
</a>
, <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie'>anti-bourgeois
</a>, and <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-capitalism'>anti-capitalist
</a>rhetoric, although such aspects were later downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities, and in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism'>anti-Semitic
</a> and anti-Marxist themes.^{<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#cite_note-mcdonough-8'>[8]
</a>}






In traditional socialism the state directly owns the means of production. In national socialism (fascism) the state practices total control over the means of production through a private proxy. In this case, given that the entity exercises the social mandates of the state, the losses are covered by the public and the profits are given to the proxy. as an example, in socialism, the government owns the car company. In a fascist system the government simply regulates the production, wages, price, and fuel standards to the point that there is no viable way to make profit aside from government subsidy ensuring compliance. Sound familiar? Other familiar aspects of German state theory would include nationalized healthcare and old age insurance (what we have been sheepishly tricked into calling social security, arguably the greatest running joke about a populations collective ignorance about actuarial science.)



The single greatest trick that the left has ever pulled off was divorcing the nazis from the left of the political spectrum and convincing most people who don't question what their professor or teacher says that somehow on the sliding scale of the political spectrum you have a parabolic move on the right towards shrinking government & personal responsibility but somehow aliens would abduct you and take you somewhere with a massive totalitarian regime controlling every aspect of your life. It defies the basic concept of any linear understanding of political theory. You can tell the fix was in because if you ask 100 high school seniors what nazi actually stands for they will just look at you and stare.



You're own response illustrates some of that. Just because you are socialist/fascist doesn't mean that you aren't racist. Just because you are socialist/fascist or believe in a massive state doesn't mean that you can't have nationalist pride. The fork in the road exist on the left once you have a government big enough to control all aspects of the market system do you drift up and to the left towards international communism or down and to the left towards nationalist socialism.



Ironically, the lack of critical understanding of what nazism is can lead to history repeating itself. I mean you had an entire country of people turn their backs on an entire cross section of the population while they were being slaughtered just because it was thought that they were a mathematical threat to the proliferation of the new national socialist welfare state. I mean you had Jews being literally being pulled off of the street to be killed and people would just look at them and say to themselves "It doesn't matter, they're not like us, they're not fully developed yet, they're just a clump of cells, they're just a fetus, the research we do on them might help others, the fuhrer has the right to choose."



Oops, i'm sorry. I got my eugenic holocausts mixed up their a little bit at the end but i think that you can get my point.