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This just in, the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930s is not actually Socialist !

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930s is not actually Socialist Good comparison. One of the victims of the Night of the Long Knives were the Strasserists [1][2]. It’s absolutely legitimate to point out when the German Socialist movement was coöpted by Hitler. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism
  • baobabKoodaa 1y ago
    No true socialist could do such a thing.
    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > No true socialist could do such a thing You’re really going to reduce a historical event to platitudes? What people call themselves matters. It may not be strictly correct. But it’s an identity, and that predicts how they’ll align in a crisis or movement.
      • baobabKoodaa 1y ago
        It was a reference to "no true scottsman"
        • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
          > It was a reference to "no true scottsman" I know. A platitude is a trite and obvious remark. Whether the Nazis are true socialists is a red herring. The point is the people who called themselves socialist before the Nazis were systematically purged by the Nazis once they coöpted their party. It would be incorrect to say self-identified socialists were responsible for everything the Nazis did; it would be correct to say they enabled them to rise to power. Most importantly, however, would be observing that right before the Nazis consolidated power, it was the former socialists who could have been peeled away, potentially to huge consequence.