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"It's right there in the name: 'national socialism'"
Much like the Democratic Republic of Korea is a democratic republic.
It's unbelievable how little conservatives understand about history, world politics, or… well, anything really
You know, if you have to tell someone you are something, you probably aren’t. It should be evident.
Indeed, people forget that union organizers were the first ones in the concentration camps. Germany had production issues that were caused by a very organized working class. The unions had to be dismantled, so the Nazi party blamed the Jewish. I have no clue how or why it worked, and used to think maybe historians had that wrong ... until now, we all see it happening in the US. We get our workers rights stripped away while the new nazi republican regime screams about immigrants.
And people forget – or, more likely, never even knew in the first place – why "national socialism" was called that in the first place. The intention was to create an anticapitalist ideology that was in opposition to Marxist socialism, ie. good 'ol "third way" stuff.
They really were anticapitalist for a while, up until the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 when the strasserists and the Black Front got murked, and then the Nazis just sort of forgot about all that anticapitalist stuff and went all-in on privatisation and courting Big Money. The whole reason for the split between the strasserists and the "hitlerites" was that Hitler wasn't at all into anticapitalism: because Otto Strasser thought that Hitler had betrayed national socialism by getting in bed with capitalists he formed the Black Front in… uh… fuck, early 30's I think. Naturally Hitler took that really well.
But yeah, the Nazis outlawed unions in favour of their corporatist vision (note that "corporatist" probably doesn't mean what you think it means if the term isn't familiar), and shoved anyone to the left of, well, the Nazis into concentration camps.