@okie,
While the very name of the Nazis, viz., National Socialist Workers Party proclaims it as socialist, Hitler was vague indeed on the type of “socialism” he envisaged for Germany.
His view on "socialism," stated in a speech he gave on July 28, 1922:
Quote:“Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such as extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of his nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, ‘Deutschland ueber Alles,” to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people, and land, that man is a socialist”
“Adolph Hitler Reden,” p.32, quoted by Bullock.
One could easily describe "American Exceptionalism," in which Okie believes as socialism using Hitler's definition.
Therefore, Okie is a socialist!
btw; There was no Bolshevik or socialist attempt at revolution in the winter of 1933, regardless of the efforts of Goering and von Papen to incite one in the press. By February of that year, Hitler had banned all communist meetings and had shut down the communist press. Social democratic rallies were banned or disrupted, and within weeks all socialist newspapers were shut down as well. Socialism, as an economic political philosophy of redistribution of national wealth as is generally considered by reasonable persons was dead in the Third Reich
The major industrialists in Germany backed Hitler and from these he drew his funding to act as a counterbalance against the communists and socialists. To even venture to call Hitler a socialist is really ignorant nonsense. He ordered the execution of Ernst Rohm and other avowed socialists in the SA during the Night of the Long Knives, because they largely rejected capitalism (which they associated with Jews) and pushed for nationalisation of major industrial firms, expanded worker control, confiscation and redistribution of the estates of the old aristocracy and social equality.
