It's easy to forget just how many Socialisms there were. The "Ein Volk!" were the "socia" in National Socialism, reusing the Goethe-und-Wagner nationalism from

It's easy to forget just how many Socialisms there were. The "Ein Volk!" were the "socia" in National Socialism, reusing the Goethe-und-Wagner nationalism from the Bismarck era. It's collectivist to the core and regarded the individual as very nearly nothing. Just because it's massively illiberal does not mean it was not a Socialism. And technically Conservatism is also quite Liberal, coming as it had from Burke. It's just been abused to identify illiberal things. What surprised me is that Orwell did not directly identify the sadomaschistic core of Naziism. Perhaps that came later, but given "Burmese Days" and how well known the ...libertine nature of Wiemar was, why I'd a thought...