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known leftists, the nazis apparently
96 upvotes, 15 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "known leftists, the nazis apparently"
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Anonymous 28w
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Anonymous 28w

yeah but far right isn’t used in the same context between germany and america. Socialism is extremely far away from republican values. It always confused me how people compare nazis and fascists to republicans when it’s literally polar oposites

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 28w

ultra nationalist racist groups that LOVE "traditionalism" and thrive off creating nostalgia for a glorious time that didnt exist being paired together? say it aint so!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 28w

really? polar opposites? as they round up marginalized communities to send to “detention centers?” as they try to stifle speech they don’t agree with? as they parrot the same rhetoric the nazis used? are you dense?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 28w

also the nazis weren’t socialist in the slightest

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 28w

JD Vance literally wrote the cover blurb for a book written by Jack Posobiec that praised actual fascist Francisco Franco for how much he oppressed socialists and liberals.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 28w

Interestingly, they were actually somewhat socialist starting out, but they were never actual Marxists (though many Marxists were convinced to join the movement)

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Anonymous 28w

Not all of the initial program was implemented to the same extent, but they maintained these goals throughout the reich. It’s not quite correct to say it was entirely for propaganda purposes, but it is true that basically all of their "socialist" policies had ulterior antisemitic motives. https://www.vaholocaust.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/25Points.pdf

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Anonymous 28w

Basically, they aimed to implement policies you might’ve expected from a socialist party at that time, but without any of the actual class struggle or marxist theory behind it.

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Anonymous 28w

So kind of like extremely racist DemSocs lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 28w

Holy fuck i just looked up that book. The entire rightwing endorses it and its just about calling liberals and leftists subhumans

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Anonymous 28w

Yeah, this is more accurate. They did succeed in socializing industry to *some* extent, but they largely maintained private ownership. The party was riddled with intense internal conflict on this, particularly between Gottfried Feder, who was the party’s economic theorist and the strongest representative of its anti-capitalist wing, and Hjalmar Schacht, who was an economic minister who defected from the previous regime.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 28w

Yep. Frankly quite a good thing to point to if anyone claims Vance isn’t himself evil just like Trump or that republicans don’t support fascists.

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Anonymous 28w

It’s less that the party was cynically planning to “bait and switch” voters the whole time and more that external pressure from Germany’s major industrialists eventually led to the internal anti-capitalist faction being slowly de-emphasized and suppressed in favor of Schacht’s far more enterprise friendly approach

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Anonymous 28w

Schacht wrote in the 'Magic of Money' that "National Socialist agitiation under the leadership of Gottfried Feder was directed in great fury against private banking and against the entire currency system.” He explains that the goal of Feder and his pupils was to bring an end to their “entire banking and monetary economy" and that he "had to try to steer Hitler away from these destructive conceptions." (p. 154)

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