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Originally Posted by ottopilot
The litmus test is to list Leftist concepts and Nazi concepts, then see where they match or differ. It's that simple.
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Nazism: - Fascism (radical and authoritarian nationalism, opposes class conflict)
- Militarism
- Antisemitism/racism
- Homophobic
- Critical of Catholicism
- Anti-capitalist, yet corporatist
Leftism: - Ranges from Keynesian economics to nationalized economics (central planning)
- Concerned with class politics
- Social progress (e.g. abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, multiculturalism, opposition to the death penalty, legal recognition of same-sex marriage, distribution of contraceptives, public funding of embryonic stem-cell research, and the right of women to chose abortion)
- A complex relationship with religion due to social issues
- Green politics (environmentalism)
- Anti-globalization and Third-worldism
(If you don't mind Wikipedia summaries. We can always expand on this.)
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