The Far-Left Anti-Capitalism of the Nazi Program

This clip, "Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy," is from Stephen Hicks' DVD documentary *Nietzsche and the Nazis* (2 hours, 45 mins) available here:

http://www.stephenhicks.org/publications/nietzsche-and-the-nazis/

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• Nazism
• Hitler
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[rjpcambridge]

Sorry not speaking with someone who posted the offensive lies contained in this video -and thinks the end of Social Programs would be a Utopia - yeah for you, you get to pay less tax.

To hell with the poor. Let them eat cake.

[qtutoringhelps]

@rjpcambridge

Figured, you're not only dishonest but a coward as well. To hell with you, if you are poor. You deserve it.

[buffysummersfanboy]

@buffysummersfanboy He (Hitler) had a mild interest in socialism, but his main concern was nationalism. He was from a rural background and grew up as a racist. Gobbels, as the video shows, was an academic and an intellectual. After reading Marx, he realized stupidity of the idea that revolution must be a worker's revolution and must be international. But he retained socialist talking points carried over from his early days in the German Worker's Party working under Strausser.

[buffysummersfanboy]

Read Hitler and Goering and you will find that these men were nationalists who used socialism, but who were more committed to nationalism. In this sense they were right wing. Read Goebbels and Himmler and you will see that they were socialists who used nationalism, but who were more committed to socialism. In this sense they were left wing. It must not be forgotten that Hitler was influenced by strongly anti Jewish writings.

[buffysummersfanboy]

But returning to the topic at hand, it will be evident to anyone who reads the diaries, speeches, and other writings of the Nazis that some were more nationalistic and others were more socialistic, but that the two were not (in the mind of the national socialists or even among moderns ones today,) mutually exclusive terms. The idea that they are is nothing but a warmed over lie from Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.

[buffysummersfanboy]

We must accept that center, left, and right are means of explaining politics in a rough sketch, not terms which mean that any one of them is particularly good. The ultimate question is whether you are for or against liberty.

[buffysummersfanboy]

We have to purge our minds of this idiotic conception of politics wherein far left, far right are bad, and center is good. That's not the case as a rule, and in the case of Nazi Germany, the Nazi Party emerged as an ideological amalgamation of and alternative to, the other socialist parties and nationalist parties in Germany. It was a combination of the two. This was something of the center, but it wasn't good, and it certainly wasn't something promoting a democratic republic.

[buffysummersfanboy]

@buffysummersfanboy One minor point I have with the video is that the Nazis are portrayed as far left. This is just as innacurate as the progressive/social democratic claim that the Nazis were on the right. In my honest study of the primary sources and the economic and political policies, I believe that the National Socialist German Worker's Party was a party of the center. As such it contained people of the right and left wings, and gave them a forum of discussion and policy implementation.

[buffysummersfanboy]

@buffysummersfanboy Too much information has been devoted to the Holucaust. While it is good to remember those who were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis, we dishonor their very memories by failing to understand the socialist and nationalist forces which allowed that tragedy to happen in the first place. 

[buffysummersfanboy]

@buffysummersfanboy The mistake some honest but uneducated people make in conflating Marxism with socialism as such is a reason for the confusion. But it still must be remembered that a propoganda campaign by professors was launched to distance international socialists from national socialists to avoid an inconvenient but historical, political, and economic association with the Nazis in terms of a collectivist vision.

[buffysummersfanboy]

This is by far one of the best videos I've seen which uses primary sources to link the national socialists in Germany to socialism. It is one of the crimes of academia that our intellectuals have largely gotten away with claiming that the National Socialists were pro capitalist. What a lie. The more I research this topic, the more I find that the older works confirm that the Nazi Party was anti Marxist, but definitely pro socialist.

[MrReco12]

@TheRivetthead

Dimwit.