And the German concept of "socialist" had nothing at all to do with the Marxist concept of "socialist."
Marxists are socialists in the sense of taking over control of government by oligarchs, as a means to the end of instituting "true communism," where the state withers away. They think society should live in a large commune, where prosperity and freedom are irrelevant concepts. Only "equality" matters. In reality, of course, the state only grows stronger because the tyrants who benefit from such a system never want it to go away. In fact today, those people want world government -- the exact opposite of the Marxist utopia.
The German socialists were quite different. They wanted the society to be moral and devoid of unjust advantage, which is why they were fighting against communist jews, who had been responsible for the immorality and suffocating laws and financial practices that benefited them over the rest of the German people.
I think Hitler was more like the dictator who runs Singapore today, rather than the dictatorships of Mao or Stalin. But the Hitler chapter was never completed, so we will never know for sure.
I think the American system, as created by the founders, was better than Singapore today. But Singapore today is better than California today, which is not (yet) as bad as the Soviet Union was.
We have to go beyond the mere use of words (rascist! homophobe! trannyphobe! socialist! capitalist!) ... and discuss the CONCEPTS that the words represent (or misrepresent, in many cases).
National SOCIALIST
And the German concept of "socialist" had nothing at all to do with the Marxist concept of "socialist."
Marxists are socialists in the sense of taking over control of government by oligarchs, as a means to the end of instituting "true communism," where the state withers away. They think society should live in a large commune, where prosperity and freedom are irrelevant concepts. Only "equality" matters. In reality, of course, the state only grows stronger because the tyrants who benefit from such a system never want it to go away. In fact today, those people want world government -- the exact opposite of the Marxist utopia.
The German socialists were quite different. They wanted the society to be moral and devoid of unjust advantage, which is why they were fighting against communist jews, who had been responsible for the immorality and suffocating laws and financial practices that benefited them over the rest of the German people.
I think Hitler was more like the dictator who runs Singapore today, rather than the dictatorships of Mao or Stalin. But the Hitler chapter was never completed, so we will never know for sure.
I think the American system, as created by the founders, was better than Singapore today. But Singapore today is better than California today, which is not (yet) as bad as the Soviet Union was.
We have to go beyond the mere use of words (rascist! homophobe! trannyphobe! socialist! capitalist!) ... and discuss the CONCEPTS that the words represent (or misrepresent, in many cases).