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Topic started on 11-6-2009 @ 02:27 PM by nunya13
I'm sorely confused because, as I've always known it, and as it has always been explained, Nazism is supposed to be an extremism of the right-wing political spectrum.

Now, with the Von Brunn guy shooting the poor security guard and being a white supremacist, right-wingers have come out in full force shoving it in our faces that Nazism is a left-wing extremism.

Did I miss the memo as to when this came about? I always thought it was like this:

Fascism (Nazism) = Extreme Right
Communism = Extreme Left

Is this just a way for the right-wing to make it seem like all the political extremes belong to the left wing? That anything on the right end of the spectrum has nothing that can be correlated to it regarding history's atrocious regimes?

I even read
one thread (when trying to see if anyone had posted this topic as of late) that suggested the Nazi's were COMMUNISTS!

I was driving home from work and listening to the AM and a caller reamed the radio host (can't remember who at the moment) for suggesting that Nazism was a right-wing idea.

Glenn Beck is now suggesting the same thing: Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting. His reasoning? Right wingers don't judge people by their race, only on individual merits and are devoid of racism. It's the left who are racist because they are for racial equality which therefore automatically makes someone a racist by even recognizing that there are different races (fighting for equality = your a racist). Therefore, Nazism/white supremacy (being as racist as it is) is a left wing agenda.

I lay out in this thread I stared the difference between Fascism and Socialism and how, while people are making the same mistake by calling Obama a Socialist, he's actually moving toward fascism.

Hitler denounced communism. Communism tries to spread the wealth and make all races, classes, and sexes equal. Fascism is of the notion that only the wealthy and powerful shall rule and that the weaklings need to be weeded out.

This is a great article that will explain further: Myth: Hitler was a lefist

Summary





Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist." But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.



reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:01 PM by nunya13
reply to post by Fromabove



Wow, this is something new to me. Fascism = Left-wing.

So socialism, fascism, communism are all left wing? There no extremism on the right?


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:09 PM by Hastobemoretolife
reply to post by nunya13



There is this site where you answer some questions and it tells you where you stand on political issues and it also shows you where other leaders were at.

It went a little more in depth about how its economic philosophy and political philosophy goes into all and it's actually a grid.

I'll try to find the site and edit my post. Because that site put Hitler aka Nazi's just right of center but way up at the top. You have to see it to understand it.

I'll try to find it.


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:23 PM by nunya13
reply to post by Hastobemoretolife



I think the problem with your assertion lies in the mistake in thinking that spectrum only goes from left to right. It doesn't.

It doesn't it also goes up and down. You can have authoritarian right and left. Just as you can have libertarian right and libertarian left



When you take this into consideration, you can see how it all begins to make sense:



edit to add: I did this while others were posting.




[edit on 11-6-2009 by nunya13]


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:24 PM by Hastobemoretolife
reply to post by thisguyrighthere



Thanks, I just found it too.

I feel that is the most accurate explanation of the political spectrum and puts things into perspective.

I don't know if you feel the same, but it is more than left or right. That site opened my mind up and things are not just "Right or Left".


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:28 PM by Hastobemoretolife
reply to post by nunya13



Nope, you found it.

That is what I was trying to get at. It is a lot more complex than left or right it is up or down also as your graph has posted.

Now if you just take the up and down of that and turn it 90 degrees to the right, then you can see where I was going in my first post.

For simplicity sake, complete freedom is on the right and authoritarianism is on the left.

As you can see Hitler wasn't hard right he was hard left as was Stalin, Bush, etc.

But the truth of the matter is that its also up and down, once again as the chart shows.


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:37 PM by Sarkazmon
reply to post by debz325



Wow.

You're not paying attention.

The FEDS have expanded under EVERY administration.

Stop playing the left right politics and realize we are all being PUNK'ed!!!!


reply posted on 11-6-2009 @ 03:37 PM by Wally Hope
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Nazi-ism isnt really right or left. Communism is left. fascism is right. Nazi-ism is a mix of both, honestly, and cannot be grouped into one or the other.


Not really true, Nazism was modeled after the fascism of Mussolini. The only real difference was Hitlers issue with Jews, which Mussolini adopted, to a point, in Italy due to pressure from Hitler.

There are a lot of people who misinterpret the term 'National Socialism' (Nazism) as being Socialist/left wing because of the use of the term 'Socialism' in it's title. This is misleading and governments are not always what they claim to be, Russia, nor China are communist for example. Hitler wasn't stupid, he needed the support of the population, who at the time were mostly socialist, so the term 'National Socialist' was created to appease the population and fool them into believing the party was pro 'working class'. 'National Fascist Party' probably wouldn't have worked for them.

You also have to understand the history of Europe in the 1930's, which was clambering for political identity and control. Look at the Spanish Revolution, it's where the war between left and right really peaked, unfortunately the right with it's power and financial influence won, and the right has pretty much been in control since.

Fascism and nationalism go hand in hand, the control of all production, even if it's privately owned, by government is fascism. The corporations use the government to help them maintain monopolies, and the government use the corporations (and military) to control the population and create wealth for the elite. Capitalism in the extreme. The state (the means that allows one group to control another) becomes more important than the people.

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