Here are two quotes.\u00a0 They\u2019re both from the same individual.\u00a0 Before I tell you who, take a guess.<\/p>\n
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Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one\u2019s fellow man\u2019s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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So, who did you guess?\u00a0 Lenin?\u00a0 Marx?\u00a0 Eugene Debs?\u00a0 Some other famous Socialist or Communist figure from history?<\/p>\n
Well, they are indeed direct quotations from a Socialist historical figure.\u00a0 But he’s not one that usually comes to mind.<\/p>\n
The speaker in each of the above was none other than . . . Adolph Hitler<\/em>.\u00a0 The quotes above are historically verified, and they show insight into just how Hitler viewed himself:\u00a0 as a Socialist, with a mission to implement his concept of Socialism in his society.\u00a0 His views concerning the desirability of Socialism were essentially the same as those of Lenin and Stalin, as were his methods.\u00a0\u00a0 Even his economic policies were broadly similar.<\/p>\n
Not convinced?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Here are a few more verified historical quotes from Hitler regarding his views on how his movement (the Nazi party) embraced Socialism.\u00a0 I\u2019ve added a bit of emphasis here and there.<\/p>\n
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We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan<\/em>, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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After all, that\u2019s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing socialism in our nation<\/span> among our Volk!<\/em> It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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For we [National Socialists] too are considered \u2018upstarts\u2019 and \u2018leftists\u2019 by those same reactionaries. They are only too eager to apply such terms as \u2018enemies of the fatherland,\u2019 \u2018Bolsheviks,\u2019 and \u2018inferiors.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Since we are socialists<\/em>, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism . . . . How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist! <\/strong>\u00a0(bold emphasis present in source)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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However, Hitler\u2019s version of Socialism was different from that of the Soviets in one key respect.\u00a0 Hitler viewed the implementation of Socialism as most properly being an internal national matter.\u00a0 He rejected internationalist ventures (except for conquest, of course; like the Soviet Union, he wanted to expand his empire).\u00a0 Lenin and Stalin had the opposite viewpoint.\u00a0 Plus, Hitler appears to have been more extremely racist \u2013 as well as closer to being absolutely full-blown bat-sh!t crazy \u2013 than either Lenin or Stalin.<\/p>\n
So, whenever someone trots out the claim that Nazis were \u201cnot Socialists\u201d or were \u201ca creation of the Right\u201d, show them the above quotations from Hitler and ask them to explain them.\u00a0 And if their heads don\u2019t immediately explode and they instead begin to splutter incoherently or spout inane leftist apologia, just smile \u2013 and walk away.<\/p>\n
The claim that National Socialists were \u201cnot Socialists\u201d and \u201cwere a creation of the Right”,\u00a0 in plain language, is bullsh!t.\u00a0 The Nazis were simply yet another band of authoritarian Socialists who managed to attain political power.\u00a0 Along with extreme nationalism, the Nazi movement had Socialist (as well as racist) principles as its core beliefs.<\/p>\n
Nazi economic policies were Socialist in nature and were and centrally-directed.\u00a0 Their police-state methods were effectively the same as those used by the Soviet Union during the Great Terror.\u00a0 Ditto their suppression of ethnic minorities and political “undesirables”, as well as their use of mass imprisonment and mass murder.\u00a0 And they created one of the most repressive – and murderous – authoritarian Socialist police states in human history.<\/p>\n
Bottom line:\u00a0 the Nazis saw themselves as a Socialists<\/u>.\u00a0 Their founder openly admitted it.\u00a0 Their policies. tactics, and methods were similar to – or the same as – those used by other authoritarian Socialist regimes.\u00a0 Both the Nazis and Soviet Communists sought world domination under Socialist rule.\u00a0 The only essential difference between them was who would rule the resulting Socialist world each sought to create.<\/p>\n
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Author\u2019s Note<\/u>:\u00a0 For convenience, the above quotes were taken <\/em>from WikiQuote<\/a>.\u00a0 However, authoritative primary sources for each quotation are cited there and can be used for verification of the quotes.\u00a0 Feel free to do so if you like.<\/em><\/p>\n
And spare me any leftist apologia explanations that \u201cthose quotes don\u2019t really mean what they say\u201d.\u00a0 Hitler\u2019s words above speak for themselves quite clearly.\u00a0 He was indeed a Socialist \u2013 of a particularly evil, authoritarian, and racist bent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"