Matt, I agree with what you're saying. It's commonly believed that the
Nazis were far right, and in some ways they were, but they were actually
into socialism of which few today are aware of... which is what the far
left also believes in. So the Nazis did have more in common with
today's far-left than few know or would suspect. The Nazi party did
espouse socialsim, just in a different manner than Marxism did. Nazi is
actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialismus which translates to
"National Socialism". Today's "right" certainly has no beliefs in
socliasm as the Nazi party did, the 'right' and the Nazis are as far
apart from each other in their core ideologies as they could possibly
be. Oh, does the term " National Socialist German Workers Party" which
is the proper name for the Nazi party remind anyone of anything on the
Left? If it doesn't, zone in on the "Workers Party" part.

Jerry

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
> "Rich Hampel" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Your first premise is WRONG. Many of my relatives WERE nazis.....
>>Nazism was a complete totalitarian system of total governmental control
>>..... so therefore by todays definition 'nazis' would be closer to far
>>left progressive liberals who seem to tolerate absolutely no other
>>philosophy than their own.
>
>
> Intolerance is found on both sides of the aisle. Whether it comes from the
> left or right depends on the philosophy. Nazi-style Fascism is for the most
> part a conservative philosophy, as opposed to Communism, which is for the
> most part a liberal philosophy. Historically, both philosphies played from
> the same political gamebook, however.
>
>

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