@georgeob1,
george, I would like to understand your position on this better. Do you dismiss the Nazi 25 points then as meaningless? Do you believe one of the central points of the Nazi 25 points was "Common Good," or do you believe that is not necessarily a left wing principle? Do you dismiss the fact that Hitler and the Nazis condemned "profiteering" and the capitalism of Jews, also was it insignificant that they confiscated property and businesses for the good of the State, and declared that legitimate income needed to arise from work that would benefit the State or Common Good? Do you dismiss those things as meaningless or insignificant? Do you also dismiss the fact that the Nazis wanted to run the schools, had State run social programs for children and young people, to take care of the poor, the elderly, and the sick, much like liberals wish to do today? It was socialism, and what was capitalistic was only allowed by permission and for the benefit of the State, not the individual. Free market capitalism in a politically free country or democracy is at the other end of the spectrum from Fascism and Nazism.
It is commonly claimed that Hitler and Fascism is at the extreme right, but this does not make sense. It should be common sense that at the extreme right is ultra conservatism to the point of Libertarian, and if that is taken to the real ultimate extreme, it becomes anarchy. If you are going to continue to maintain that Hitler was an ultra rightee, I think we will just have to both admit that the measuring device or spectrum being used has changed dramatically.
I confess that I do not understand how you can make Hitler a rightee with how we understand it today? I understand how he could have been viewed that way by many, in context with the existing politics of Germany and Europe, while the influences of communism were bearing down on the region, but I do not see how that can be considered legitimate now. I suppose if you compare a pear to an apple, it does not appear to be red, but if you compare it to an orange, it is an entirely different comparison. In other words, I am saying a pear is more like an apple than it is an orange, or that Nazism is closer to the ultra left than it is to the ultra right. I hope you get the analogy I am trying to use here.