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The common good comes before the private good.
Adolph Hitler
…The bourgeois is about to leave the historical stage. In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism. The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the political. It is not merely a matter of wages, not only a matter of the number of hours worked in a day — though we may never forget that these are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the socialist platform — but it is much more a matter of incorporating a powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it the dominant force in the future politics of the fatherland.
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The bourgeoisie does not want to recognize the strength of the working class. Marxism has forced it into a straitjacket that will ruin it. While the working class gradually disintegrates in the Marxist front, bleeding itself dry, the bourgeoisie and Marxism have agreed on the general lines of capitalism, and see their task now to protect and defend it in various ways, often concealed.
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We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive citizen.
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Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and Marxism at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming workers’ state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our national existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist national state.
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Poor snowflakes can't cope with the fact that Hitler, and Mussolini were "National Socialists"...
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
No, that was actually my point. Socialism it wasn't and national socialism wasn't delivered either. How was ruining a nation with utter madness national socialist? And why does a workers party abolish unions and deny workers the right to vote on union matters?
Strength Through Joy
Kraft durch Freude (German for Strength through Joy, abbreviated KdF) was a large state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany.[1] It was a part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), the national German labour organization at that time. Set up as a tool to promote the advantages of National Socialism to the people, it soon became the world's largest tourism operator of the 1930s.[2]
KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses. This was underscored by having cruises with passengers of mixed classes and having them, regardless of social status, draw lots for allocation of cabins.[3]
Another less ideological goal was to boost the German economy by stimulating the tourist industry out of its slump from the 1920s. It was quite successful up until the outbreak of World War II. By 1934, over two million Germans had participated on a KdF trip; by 1939 the reported numbers lay around 25 million people. The organization essentially collapsed in 1939, and several projects, such as the massive Prora holiday resort, were never completed.
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originally posted by: PublicOpinion
We call them Nazis for a reason, ya know? Your source is the guy, who deceived his alleged comrades and broke the treaty with Stalin. How did you convince yourself, that a pack of lies surrounding the Nazi party name is somehow a cool talking point?
facts about "socialism and it's many branches"
The socialist policies implemented in NAZI Germany weren't there to "deceive"...
Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism.
~Adolf Hitler
Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not.
~Adolf Hitler
Our greatest industrialists are not concerned with the acquisition of wealth or with good living, but, above all else, with responsibility and power. They have worked their way to the top by their own abilities, and this proof of their capacity – a capacity only displayed by a higher race – gives them the right to lead.
~Adolf Hitler
But the State should retain control; every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State; it is his duty not to misuse his possessions to the detriment of the State or the interests of his fellow countrymen. That is the overriding point. The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners.
~Adolf Hitler
The Germany of today is a National Socialist State. The ideology that dominates us is in diametrical contradiction to that of Soviet Russia. National Socialism is a doctrine that has reference exclusively to the German people.
~Adolf Hitler
originally posted by: Gryphon66
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Remember Hitler's "socializmus" is NATIONALISM. The State is the only thing that matters. Every person is subject to the State and the State is supreme over the People and the Individuals.
In other words HITLER and THE NAZIS were as PURELY RIGHT-WING as any group in history.
The Right wants traditional power structures; Hitler was obsessed with the traditions of the German People.
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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: PublicOpinion
The whole argument dissolves against one fact: Hitler not only HATED Bolshevism but stated repeatedly that National Socialism was NOT Marxian Socialism.
To claim otherwise is simply a lie.
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. It typically involves a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others (prioritarianism), as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished (by advocating for social justice).The term left wing can also refer to "the radical, reforming, or socialist section of a political party or system".
Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.
Although the right-wing originated with traditional conservatives, monarchists and reactionaries, the term extreme right-wing has also been applied to movements including fascists, Nazis and racial supremacists
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Gryphon66
LOL... the left is about individualism?... REALLY?... that is absurd, more so when the left always puts "the collective before the common good"... just like Hitler and the NAZIs did...
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
Hitler said Nazism was diametrically opposed to Marx and the Soviets ... OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
I'm just going to say that Hitler knows even more than you do about Nazi ideology.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
Hitler said Nazism was diametrically opposed to Marx and the Soviets ... OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
I'm just going to say that Hitler knows even more than you do about Nazi ideology.
So were/are many other forms of socialism... So was Lenin opposed to the socialism that Stalin wanted implemented, and so was Stalin opposed to the socialism that Lenin and Trotsky wanted implemented... Just because different branches of socialism opposed other branches of socialism, it doesn't mean they weren't branches of socialism...