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I wouldn't say National Socialism was purely left. It was economically extremely left-leaning and most of their social policies were extremely right-leaning.
by KMag 4y ago
I wouldn't say National Socialism was purely left. It was economically extremely left-leaning and most of their social policies were extremely right-leaning. (Though, racism knows no political bounds... Stalin also practiced genocidal policies.)
It's true that Hitler thought the US's free market economy was a Jewish ideal, and he thought the economic free market incentives (in the form of huge government contracts) would only benefit Jews without efficiently producing war material. The Nazis did have a form of command economy as a result, which turned out to not be as efficient.
- Natsu 4y agoI mean, the economics of National Socialism aren't what people usually hate about it, they hate the authoritarianism where you were either their kind of socialist or they would beat you up and cast you out of society, even if you were some other stripe of socialist. So they became nearly universally hated by fighting anyone who wasn't one of them.
- CRConrad 4y ago> ... the authoritarianism [of the Nazis] where you were either their kind of socialist ... They were no kind of socialist.
- KMag 4y agoIt was ethnostate socialism. It was a command economy where industry was at the service of the people, but they had a perverse idea of who their people were and who they weren't. It really was a left-wing economic model with extreme right-wing social policy, plus lots of genocide.
- CRConrad 4y ago> It really was a left-wing economic model with extreme right-wing social policy, plus lots of genocide. So it was a right-wing political model (with lots of genocide) that happened to have a somewhat left-wing economic model. In economics, economics ranks above politics, but in politics, politics ranks above economics. And Nazism was (is) a political ideology, not a school of economics.
- lsh123 4y ago[flagged]