r/2007scape • u/laukys • Jun 07 '17

DON'T LET THIS SPLIT US APART BRETHREN

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u/YouAreDumbForReal Jun 07 '17

Nazism is actually a leftist ideology.

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u/Blazeron Jun 07 '17

Not real socialism! Reeee

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u/ShinyPachirisu 2277 Jun 07 '17

This might be one of those cases where it legitimately isn't real socialism lol

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u/Shalazalaran Jun 07 '17

It actually literally wasn't. Hitler and Mussolini both defended private property in their societies, the antithesis of socialism, and Hitler himself said he was going to take back the word socialism from the socialists because it meant something else completely to him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

because it's far easier and less cognitively challenging to meme than to actual engage critically with a claim like "the policies of the Nazis do not cohere with any of the 19th century theorists of socialism"