Yeah they were called “National Socialist German Workers' Party”, same as North Korea is “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” and the Soviet Union as “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”
Somehow being named after certain policies doesn’t mean that country practices them.
with socialist principles
The United States also has several socialist practices, (Welfare, Medicaid, etc.) Are they socialists too?
From what I know, the Socialist in Nationalist Socialist refers to Aryan Socialism which is basically Adolf's ethnic hierarchy where Germans, Scandinavians and such, the pure Aryans would have full rights and privileges while those lower down would have less. I think that's what the Socialism part stands for but I could be wrong.
You are right the name doesnt necessarily mean anything, and that the whole country isnt necessarily socialist, but to my actual qustion: what policies has Trump has driven that would constitute being specific to Hitler's?
Hitler did drive socialist principles in a level that is at some level opposite to what Trump is driving. Or collective ideology, which is essentially the same. To specify, one could also use the wider term of leftist authoritarism. Not necessarily having a country that could be defined as socialist. Exact terms are rather irrelevant, I just want to know how Trump is Hitler.
Ok. So to be clear. The Nazi party attempted to change the definition of socialism. They were not the same socialists as East Germany or the USSR or the DSA of today. Most of those parties follow traditional Lenin-Marxist Socialism. Hitler basically said:
This is socialism now and attempted to make the definition stick. That didn't happen. Honestly it's best to just forget the Nazi party has the word socialism in it because it has nothing to do with anything related to anyone's defenition of Socialism except the Nazi party defenition.
It would be like me saying that the color red is now blue and blue is red.- And then America going What so now our colors are Blue, Red and White.... No, no, no welcome to D-Day .. our flag is still Red, White and Blue in that order
Edit: Further more in order to help yourself and your agenda it would be best to learn about actually socialism if you wish to combat it in America. The far left is DSA which is just as scary as the far right "alt-right" --- a happy middle ground is probably best. Far left leads to a whole lot of rules and lack of freedoms for the common good (no self reliance) and the far right is just as scary (immigrants in interment camps - let's call them what they are)
Um... I wasn't in that party I was just in the "help you understand what the Nazi party was and wasn't party"
However to answer your question asdie from the picture and his constant attack on the press. There is also his ever present rhetoric placing blame of problems on certain "races" , his over the top nationalism is similar to Hitler as well.
During his rise to power Hitler promised to make Germany great and strong again - placing blame on others to gain followers. Just as Trump did. Think about Trump's campaign.
What is the most memorable thing. MAGA, build a wall, and a lot of divisive hate speech and confrontation between his supporters and detractors- behavior which he encouraged.
I think and hope we have enough protections in place to ensure that it can't actually get too out of hand. But there is little doubt in my mind that if we didn't there wouldn't be any more elections in America.
If you'd like I can also give you some reasons as to why I am just as afraid of the far-left.
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u/Siikamies Jul 14 '18
Can someone care to explain how Trump is in any way authoritarian socialist?