If someone comes at you on here with “actually, Nazis were socialists,” just block them and don’t look back. Do yourself this little kindness.
>'If someone comes at you on here with “actually, Nazis were socialists,” just block them and don’t look back. Do yourself this little kindness.'
Making a statement like that, is like to say that time is invariant.
For anyone who's confused, the Nazis were brutal fascists who hated people for who they are and killed millions of people because of that.
I'm a curious person. I enjoy learning things. If someone made a statement like that, I would inquire as to what they're thinking was, what they thought the meaning of those words meant. I don't think I would immediately make any judgment at all about them until I understood what they thought those words meant.
We all live in these isolated bubbles these days and the meanings of words have become so tortured (especially ideological labels) that there are a lot people out there who don't share a common understand of what many words mean. To make a judgment about somebody based solely on that one statement would be like judging somebody based on appearances.
It would be like assuming that a minute is same amount of time for all observers.
I'm curious Robert, what prompted this?
And as to the meaning of the word "socialist", if you ask ten people you'll get twelve different answers.
@Pat @mcnees
nazis originally were socialists yes, a german national only club that identified as socialist, hence national socialism. but as pat brings up they quickly lost that meaning and morphed into pure fascists. looking into antifa history there are actually some instances of the nazis and antifa working together to fight the fascists who were openly fascist at the time, prior to the rise of the nazis when they were a more obscure group. tldr weimar politics were weird and volatile.