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Do you actually think nazis were on the left? Because that's what horseshoe theory you are defending is all about. The centrist social democrats are the ones that facilitated the nazis rise to power because they didn't want to side with the communists and socialists.
"Do you actually think nazis were on the left?"
if i thought that, i wouldn't have said that they came after the left.
everyone thinks i'm anti-left because of the weird american interpretation that animal farm = 'communism bad,' and not that collective efforts can be derailed by failures of communication or education.
the failure of progressive efforts is that most progressive groups can be turned on each other because they can't communicate or separate patterns from substrate.
'divide and conquer' is really successful, whether in animal farm or in basically every historical example of oppression.
again the 'first they came for' poem i alluded to with "Why the 'national socialists' came for the communists and socialists first."
what this means is that the name 'national socialist' was obviously completely removed from the concept.
again, like the pigs in animal farm becoming removed from the concept of animals by the end of the book. why the book is an apt reference to actual systems, although more specifically around the unfortunate failures of early russian efforts.
again, the oversimplified american interpretation of 'communism bad' mostly comes from a thorough lack of reading comprehension, and memetic/socialized reification of that misinterpretation.
so again, stating that i was not calling the nazis progressives when suggesting that their name was being misused through blatant oppression of socialists.
Read. Another. Book.
are you even human? did you comprehend any of the words being said?
By your western shitlibs standards? No I'm not human
The Nazis we’re economically left of the US in many ways, for what it’s worth.
What?
Nazis spent a lot of money on military because they wanted to do imperialism to grow their economy. They ran deficits to fund war industries (kind of like the US) and were betting on winning to pay them off (US oil wars?)
There was certainly centralized planning, but the US isn't exactly a free market. The government subsidizes industries in the states too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
Sounds pretty familiar, and I haven't even mentioned the use of prison labour.
The big public works projects were already planned by the time they took power and were beneficial for the war effort anyways. The states were embarking on similar projects at the time as well, so I wouldn't say they were further left even if we do credit them with continuing.
Nazis banned trade unions. Nazi Germany sought to eliminate foreign completion. They supported privatization. Banks were privatized under them. Utilities, manufacturing, railways, public services etc all had at least some privatization.
Companies traded contributions for favor (sound familiar?)
What am I missing that makes them more economically left wing?
Hitler was inspired by the US mostly successful genocide of native peoples.