Originally Posted by Raavak
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Uhm, no. The socialists ruled the country, until Hitler put a bullet in his own head. Hitler LOOOOVED him some socialism. Spoke on it, wrote on it. He praised socialism in Mein Kampf. The Third Reich forced socialism on Germany and was far more socialist than any current country in Western Europe.
Socialism is the cornerstone of fascism. When Hitler visited Mussolini in '34 he was in awe of all he had done. Idiots will point to Mussolini leaving the Italian Socialist Party and speaking against that Party... saying that made him anti-socialist. Completely wrong, as Italy had a tyrannical command and control economy that hunted down capitalists like animals. He left the party because they weren't brutal enough.
Anyway, Hitler learned from this and took it back to Germany, where he was just a fledgling tyrant, and started his "reforms" in which he and the industrialists allied to take control of the economy, largely gearing it for war, and steering resources to the war machine.
Most things the Nazi's did were progressive. There wasn't that much that could be called reactionary, some of the valkyrie shit, the Roman salute and stuff. But Nazi's brought universal healthcare, built the worlds first superhighways, created the People's Car, supplied abortion on demand, built lavish government buildings, expanded scientific research, promoted the arts, etc, all progressive things.
Nationalism isn't right wing or left wing, its the opposite of globalism. Its like fingernails on a chalkboard when i hear n00bs get that wrong. Same with populism, whose opposite is like oligarch-ism or something.
I haven't read Dsouza (occasionally see him on tv), but I have Jonah Goldberg, Leonard Read, Ben Stein, Dr Kissinger, Milton Friedman, etc, etc, etc who have written on the subject.
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