Posted on Feb 5, 2017
Was Adolf Hitler a Socialist? Debunking a Historical Myth
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Enough said.
Was Adolf Hitler a Socialist? Debunking a Historical Myth
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Capt Gregory Prickett
MSgt Neil Greenfield - fascism is a type of socialism. Hitler was a socialist, as was Mussolini, as were their policies. Where fascism differs from traditional socialism is a move towards a totalitarian form of government, similar to communism. The difference between the two was based on nationalism, on the state itself.
Wilde's article is not very well written, he's got the history part down (which figures, he's a historian), but he really does not have a grasp on the political science aspects of the matter.
Wilde's article is not very well written, he's got the history part down (which figures, he's a historian), but he really does not have a grasp on the political science aspects of the matter.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
I real doubt you have read it. The ideals there are facist and nationalist to the core.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - no, I read it. Not only that, but my undergrad degree was in political science, so I'm familiar with fascism, socialism, and nationalism. Fascism is a sub-set of socialist. MAJ (Join to see) is absolutely correct, you cannot be a fascist without being a socialist first.
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I'm not impressed with the article. Poorly researched with many errors from a political science view, this appears to be revisionist history.
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Historian Neil Gregor, in his introduction to a discussion of Nazism which includes many experts, says:
“As with other fascist ideologies and movements it subscribed to an ideology of national renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation manifesting itself in extreme populist radical nationalism, militarism, and – in contradistinction to many other forms of fascism, extreme biological racism…the movement understood itself to be, and indeed was, a new form of political movement…the anti-Socialist, anti-liberal, and radical nationalist tenets of Nazi ideology applied particularly to the sentiments of a middle class disorientated by the domestic and international upheavals in the inter-war period.” (Neil Gregor, Nazism, Oxford, 2000 p 4-5.)
“As with other fascist ideologies and movements it subscribed to an ideology of national renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation manifesting itself in extreme populist radical nationalism, militarism, and – in contradistinction to many other forms of fascism, extreme biological racism…the movement understood itself to be, and indeed was, a new form of political movement…the anti-Socialist, anti-liberal, and radical nationalist tenets of Nazi ideology applied particularly to the sentiments of a middle class disorientated by the domestic and international upheavals in the inter-war period.” (Neil Gregor, Nazism, Oxford, 2000 p 4-5.)
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LTC David Brown
Well here is something interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers'_Party Also explain Hitler's cruise ship for German workers, Hitler's resort for zGerman workers etc?
German Workers' Party - Wikipedia
The German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was a short-lived political party and the precursor of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP); commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party. The DAP only lasted from January 1919 until February 1920.
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