Baraka_Guru

I think the confusion stems from the Nazi party's own confused views of socialism. They were opposed to it, they didn't like the word, they wanted to support the middle class, they felt Marxism wasn't a good enough socialism, they didn't want the name attached to the party, then they did want it attached to the party.... it's all really wishy-washy. This is the kind of thing you get when you have a racist agenda at your core and you try to do what you can to subject people to it.

Basically, the Nazis were a nationalist party that criticized capitalism because they wanted to wrest power from the Jews, and yet they wanted the best for the Aryans. So they used what they liked from capitalism and what they liked from socialism, never really properly employing either. The bottom line is that they were a nationalist totalitarian regime.

What makes them far right wing was their penchant for strict hierarchies and their ability to hold supreme authority over public order. (Think of the right's opposition to the ideologies stemming out of the French Revolution.) Socialism doesn't like that. Socialism would rather remove this.

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