RE: The myth of the "far right"8 Jul 2025 13:40
While the Nazis included the word socialist in their name, their actual policies and ideology were fundamentally far-right, ultranationalist, racialist, and anti-socialist:
They violently suppressed communists, social democrats, and trade unions after coming to power. Their economic system allowed private property and capitalist enterprise, so long as it served the goals of the state. The Nazis formed alliances with big industrialists and business leaders, like those at IG Farben, Krupp, and Siemens. They did not seek to abolish class structures but instead built a militarized, hierarchical, racially-defined state.
The so-called socialist aspects in early Nazi rhetoric (like calls for wealth redistribution, anti-interest finance, or anti-capitalist slogans) were either abandoned or only ever opportunistic rhetoric used to appeal to working-class voters angry at the Weimar government and global capitalism.
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