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I'm really wondering, socialism is leftism, right? I don't see anything leftist in Nazism.

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[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

(This article is from 2017 and adorably states that "Nobody, least of all the millions of rank-and-file right-leaning Americans who voted for Donald Trump, wants to be lumped in with Nazis. It's a fact, however, that Nazi-friendly organizations, Nazi symbols, and Nazi gestures were in evidence at the disastrous Charlottesville event, whose unfortunate title was not "Unite the Left," but "Unite the Right.")

The full name of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, the political movement that brought him to power and supplied the infrastructure of the fascist dictatorship over which he would preside, was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers' Party. According to historians, the complicated moniker reveals more about the image the party wanted to project and the constituency it aimed to build than it did about the Nazis' true political goals, which were building a state based on racial superiority and brute-force governance.

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And this is what came out of Adolf Hitler's mouth on another occasion when a comrade riled him by harping on socialism (as reported by Henry A. Turner, author of German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, published in 1985): "Socialism! What does socialism really mean? If people have something to eat and their pleasures, then they have their socialism."