Remember when G-shill and digby told us that the Nazis were liberals?
- RELATION WITH FASCISM
Nazism is a politically syncretic variety of fascism, which incorporates policies, tactics and philosophic tenets from left and right-wing politics. Italian fascism and German Nazism reject liberalism, democracy and Marxism.[65] Usually supported by the far right, fascism is historically anti-communist, anti-conservative and anti-parliamentary.[66] The Nazis' rise to power was assisted by the Fascist government of Italy that began to financially subsidize the Nazi party in 1928.[67]
Leftism is state control, and Nazis pushed for authoritarian state control of every aspect of society (selective aryan breeding, hitler youth...)even further than the Soviets.
The right has a focus on minimum government control and on personal freedoms, that naturally create the best and most efficient and least oppressive system.
The Nazis were hostile to conservatives, wanted to abolish capitalism in favor of a state-run system. While having surface aspects of conservatism, they were hostile to true conservatives, including hostility to leadership of the German army, that the SS was created to ultimately replace. The Nazis gave a surface appearance of conservatism, but below that surface, their ultimate goal was to radically transform Germany.
Sound familiar?
