There is a strange argument online over whether or not the Nazis were socialists.
They said they were socialists. Were they kidding?
Hitler said, "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."
Of course, people seeking power over others lie all the time but
the objections to the Nazis being socialists seem to be that they were really bad guys, as if a socialist could not be a racist or a bigot or a homicidal maniac. Apparently, socialism attracts people who are high-minded, noble people of good intentions and not people like Hitler--or Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, Lenin, Gueverra, Trotsky, Mao--well, you know what I mean.
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