WtfEvenIsExistence1️Ah shit, here we go again
Is the bottom the full name for Nazi? What’s AFP? Sorry if I’m out of the loop
Nazi party’s official name: NSDAP- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei- National Socialist German Workers’ Party (They aren’t actually socialist, it’s just the name they chose)
AfD: Alternative für Deutschland- Alternative for Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
In March 2020, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified AfD’s far-right nationalistic faction known as Der Flügel as “a right-wing extremist endeavor against the free democratic basic order” and as “not compatible with the Basic Law”, placing it under intelligence surveillance.
scorpionixThey weren’t actually socialist, it’s just the name they chose
Technically, they were, at least to some degree until the Night of the long Knifes during which all left-leaning SA Leaders were purged.
cygnusYeah, to claim that people like Ernst Roehm weren’t socialist is revisionist, to put it mildly. Dude was anticapitalist and wanted to nationalize most industries.
There is nationalization, and there is nationalization.
Mussolini/Gentile stated that the goal of fascism was the merger of the state with the corporation, eg their economic theory of corporatism.
Or, to put it another way, “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
The Soviet Union’s obsession with nationalization as the means of socialism was one of the many reasons other leftist thinkers coined the term “red fascism” to describe them.
What, after all, is the functional difference between a state taking 70% of your productivity and a capitalist splitting that 70% with a statist?
(Well, hopefully it’s infrastructure and social benefits, but power and weak oversight corrupts)
Very helpful!