It seems all you Leftists...

[m>s]

National socialism is outside of the re ed american political spectrum. It's center left economically and conservative socially. Go away ducks.

[Winehole23]

claiming Nazism for the right wing makes sense to me. to Yoni, apparently not so much.

[Winehole23]

it's a mixture of the two, like you said. family values nationalism plus socialism.

[Winehole23]

a floor wax and a dessert topping

[RandomGuy]

National socialism is center left economically and right wing socially

Fairly accurate.

Hard to find a modern right winger in the US that fits that bill though.

[RandomGuy]

claiming Nazism for the right wing makes sense to me. to Yoni, apparently not so much.

Yonivore just liked the cherry picked quote that I am sure got threaded to him in a forwarded email, without all the follow up context from the article.

[baseline bum]

Fairly accurate.

Hard to find a modern right winger in the US that fits that bill though.

I don't think it fits socialism as practiced in Europe at all, as Hitler was all about suppressing class-consciousness and unionization, which are the pillars of Social Democracy. The comparisons between Republicans and the Nazis are because they're both highly nationalist parties that hide behind their respective flags. I think it's kind of ridiculous to throw the Nazi comparison at the American right since union busting and denying civil rights to gays is bad, but of course not in the same ing ballpark as the genocide against the Jews or invading the Soviet Union and slaughtering their civilians by the millions.

[Yonivore]

I don't think it fits socialism as practiced in Europe at all, as Hitler was all about suppressing class-consciousness and unionization, which are the pillars of Social Democracy. The comparisons between Republicans and the Nazis are because they're both highly nationalist parties that hide behind their respective flags. I think it's kind of ridiculous to throw the Nazi comparison at the American right since union busting and denying civil rights to gays is bad, but of course not in the same ing ballpark as the genocide against the Jews or invading the Soviet Union and slaughtering their civilians by the millions.

See RG, the author was spot on.

[m>s]

Fairly accurate.

Hard to find a modern right winger in the US that fits that bill though.

You're talking to one

[m>s]

I don't think it fits socialism as practiced in Europe at all, as Hitler was all about suppressing class-consciousness and unionization, which are the pillars of Social Democracy. The comparisons between Republicans and the Nazis are because they're both highly nationalist parties that hide behind their respective flags. I think it's kind of ridiculous to throw the Nazi comparison at the American right since union busting and denying civil rights to gays is bad, but of course not in the same ing ballpark as the genocide against the Jews or invading the Soviet Union and slaughtering their civilians by the millions.

Neat story bro sounds as fake as the Anne frank diary tbh

go log into stalin and say something gay in response

[ElNono]

tangential

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dis...ehmung/228158/

[boutons_deux]

Nazi conception of Heimat

The specific aspects of Heimat — love and attachment to homeland — left the idea vulnerable to easy assimilation into the fascist "blood and soil" literature of the National Socialists since it is relatively easy to add to the positive feelings for the Heimat a rejection of anything foreign, that however is not there necessarily. It was conceived by the Nazis that the volk community is deeply rooted in the land of their heimat through their practice of agriculture and their ancestral lineage going back hundreds and thousands of years. The Third Reich was regarded at the deepest level as the sacred heimat of the unified volk community—the national slogan was One Reich, One Volk, One Führer.

Those who were taken to Nazi concentration camps were those who were officially declared by theSS to be "enemies of the volk community" and thus a threat to the integrity and security of the heimat.<sup>[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat

The Repugs' version of Nazi Heimat is "Homeland".

The Repugs' rabble-rousing strategy of racism, nativism, xenophobia, phobia parallels closely to Nazi Heimat and Nazi's Aryan race.</sup>

[FuzzyLumpkins]

it's a mixture of the two, like you said. family values nationalism plus socialism.

I think that is only valid in the context of totalitarian socialism like Maoism and Stalinism. State control is the commonality but there is not much that is actually 'social' in it.

[angrydude]

Leftist ideologies warred against each other back then just like Christian sects warred against each other over what was the true version of Christianity.

Just like the sunnies fight the shiites.....

or wallstreet republicans fight tea party republicans...

Seriously, there are so many examples of this it hardly needs to be pointed out.

[angrydude]

I think that is only valid in the context of totalitarian socialism like Maoism and Stalinism. State control is the commonality but there is not much that is actually 'social' in it.

Socialism as an umbrella term pretty much refers to using state power..or just planning really... to try and create a utopia.... Whatever you think that should be.