CastleBravo
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National Socialists weren't Socialists or Communists, contrary to what some people like to pretend. They didn't nationalize everything like Socialists do, and they tried to kill every Communist they could find, so it is kind of hard to call them Communists. They actively courted business interests as political supporters (instead of enemies) and gave individual buisnessmen a largely free hand do do things as they wanted, including manage their own slave labor. If anything, the Nazis were more capitalistic than the democracies that fought them were, not implementing a state-directed wartime economy until fairly late into the war. Putting them in a left-wing "socialist" mold doesn't fit.
Of course, "left" and "right" are relative terms that only make sense if the practitioners aren't bloodthirsty demagogues. Once you take one to a psychotic extreme it starts to look like the other... unlimited state power and mass murder.
You can't call every tyranical scumbag a leftist just because you dislike Democrats. Look at Ashcroft, he's about as far right as you can get appointed and what is his hobby? Curtailing civil rights and expanding police powers. But then again, Republicans never were much better at ideological consistency than Democrats.
Of course, "left" and "right" are relative terms that only make sense if the practitioners aren't bloodthirsty demagogues. Once you take one to a psychotic extreme it starts to look like the other... unlimited state power and mass murder.
You can't call every tyranical scumbag a leftist just because you dislike Democrats. Look at Ashcroft, he's about as far right as you can get appointed and what is his hobby? Curtailing civil rights and expanding police powers. But then again, Republicans never were much better at ideological consistency than Democrats.