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Originally Posted by danielf
Yes, but the fact that they called the movement Nationalsozialismus doesn't mean they weren't right wing.
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Yes, and the fact that Wikipedia insists National Socialism isn't socialism, doesn't mean it isn't. To be honest it has the same ring to it as all the hoary old Communists who still insist that Communism does work, it's just that in all the places it's been tried, they didn't do it properly.
American author John T Flynn observed: "The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator."
And earlier this week, Dan Hannan blogged on this very subject:
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I am a Socialist,' Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, 'and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow'.
No one at the time would have regarded it as a controversial statement. The Nazis could hardly have been more open in their socialism, describing themselves with the same terminology as our own SWP: National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Almost everyone in those days accepted that fascism had emerged from the revolutionary Left. Its militants marched on May Day under red flags. Its leaders stood for collectivism, state control of industry, high tariffs, workers' councils. Around Europe, fascists were convinced that, as Hitler told an enthusiastic Mussolini in 1934, 'capitalism has run its course'.
One of the most stunning achievements of the modern Left is to have created a cultural climate where simply to recite these facts is jarring. History is reinterpreted, and it is taken as axiomatic that fascism must have been Right-wing, the logic seemingly being that Left-wing means compassionate and Right-wing means nasty and fascists were nasty.
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...ts-of-fascism/
It's well worth reading the whole article.