"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Wdtabor wrote:

The Nazi Party was the National SOCIALIST Party, fascsim is a left wing
philosophy, it never has had anything to do with the political right. It
is only characterized as such by entertainers with no knowledge of
history.

And what was East Germany's actual name?


The Nazis actually were socialists, however. Almost all major industries
were nationalized and, like all socialist states must do in the end, the
Nazis ultimately resorted to slave labor. After all, if you remove the
economic incentive to work harder or more efficiently and suppress
individual expression, then you are left with only physical force to make
people work. Socialism's failure is never the fault of the government, of
course. Hitler blamed first the Jews, but after he had killed nearly all of
the Jews he simply committed suicide himself, blaming the German people as
not being worthy of him.

As for the German Democratic Republic, I am reminded of Mortimer Adler's
assertion that socialism was the democratization of economic power. Just as
democracy theoretically equalizes political power among men, so socialism is
supposed to equalize economic power. From this viewpoint socialism is the
economic expression of democracy.

Of course, neither democracy nor socialism equalize anything.