I'm actually pretty educated, I'm just being nice about it. To say the Nazis were socialists is to repeat a lie being pushed by US conservative groups. The Nazis hated socialists and actively persecuted and killed them. You're literally just repeating alt-right talking points.
So, I'm not conservative and I'm not alt-right. So you slinging those words at me mean nothing to me. I care about the history.
And the history makes it clear.
1. Socialism has nothing to do with class. There are different brands of socialism based off different axioms. "Socialist" does not mean "for the worker".
Socialism, as a broad ideological term, is about the collective ownership of the means of production. That's it. Period. Go no further. That's all it means.
It was Marx, who was not the first socialist, who theorized a class socialism. Socialism existed before that point.
2. Nazis hated any socialist that wasn't their brand of socialist. Y'know, like most socialists. They hated Marxist Communists because communism's brand of socialism would've undermined the race socialism of the Nazis and they would've competed with them for ideological supremacy.
Gee, let's ask the Mensheviks about violence and purging from other socialists, right? I bet Trotsky would've been delighted to talk about that if it weren't for the icepick in his head.
The Nazis were race socialists. They were not class socialists. Nazis wanted to socialize the German/Aryan race while the Marxists wanted to socialize the workers. The underlying thought, the underlying principles, are the exact same thing.
Both hated Jews and conflated "Jew" with "Capitalist"/ Pro-tip, Hitler read Das Kapital and it was this book that made him realize capitalism was "another Jewish plot". Why? Because Marx explicitly said it was, that all Capitalists are 'inwardly Jews' and that society would be socialized by the rejection of "the Jew".
BOTH ascribed to the 'value of labor' and 'symmetrical depreciation capital' theories, which justified their ideological statements.
Nazis were socialists. They just weren't Marxists.
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