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   From: d@ray   
      
   ELON X.  wrote:   
      
   > The Nazis co-opted the word "socialism" and meant something entirely   
   > different   
   > by it than did the actual socialists of the era. The Nazis absolutely did   
   > *not*   
   > mean economic collectivism, i.e. state ownership of the means of   
   > production and   
   > distribution, the hallmark of socialism.   
      
   Thanks God.   
      
   > In fact, the Nazis *privatized*   
   > industries that had been taken over by the state under the Weimar   
   > republic.   
      
   So, Jewish state stole businesses from owners, and Nazis returned it when   
   they got to power? Wow, I thought they were bad guys.   
      
   > What Hitler and the Nazis meant by their use of "socialism" was a sort of   
   > cultural and Aryan identity collectivism. The Nazis were mortally opposed   
   > to   
   > Marxism, Leninism, "Fourierism," "Fabian" socialism, "democratic"   
   > socialism, or   
   > *any* of the traditional left-wing socialist philosophies.   
      
   Oh, so they *were* good guys?   
      
   > Nazis: extreme nationalism   
   > Socialists: internationalist; national identity is bad   
      
   Being White is bad. Send money to Israel.   
      
   > Nazis: indifferent to existence of private enterprise   
   > Socialists: collectivist first and foremost regarding enterprise   
      
   Whoa. Mind. Blown.   
      
   Collectivist Stalin says hello.   
      
   > Nazis: virulently racist   
   > Socialists: anti-racist   
      
   Hmm… since they were right about everything else, I’m pretty sure they were   
   right about that, too.   
      
   > Nazis: extreme reverence for the past and "traditional values"   
   > Socialists: "progressive" - hostility to past and tradition   
      
   Thanks God we bombed them in Dresden, right? I mean, gay rights, child   
   grooming and black troons is what America was fighting for against those   
   evil traditionalists, obviously.   
      
   > Nazis: romantic and folkloric; anti-intellectual   
   > Socialists: "scientific" and pro-intellectual   
      
   Sure. Germans were never known for their engineering and scientific   
   expertise.   
      
   Shit like that says a lot about intelligence of target audience of this   
   article.   
      
   > Nazis: glorification of military and war as greatest expression of   
   > national identity; effective military control of state   
   > Socialists: military subordinate to civilian-controlled state   
      
   That’s just a lie.   
      
   > Nazis: aggressively expansionist through war   
      
   That’s a lie.   
      
   > Socialists: passively expansionist through collapse of capitalist   
   > economies due to capitalism's so-called "inherent contradiction"   
      
   Good to know that socialists are expansionists. Feels good living in   
   collapsing capitalist Weimerica knowing who is getting ready to “expand”.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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