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.