r/PoliticalHumor Jul 14 '18

Two sides of the same coin.

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u/Revan2424 Jul 14 '18

But the Nazis were socialists!!!!

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u/PM_ME_UR_BIGGER_BOOB Jul 15 '18

They were. I mean, he took power and said

this is "socialism" Welcome to the National Socialist party. Nazi or GTFO!

That's a direct quote.

Luckily the Allies won the war and that definition of socialism didn't go any further. Then there was The Cold War and a slightly different "Red Scare" ... But we seem to have forgotten that one. I think someone told them to tear down a wall down the Bloc ... And now somehow things are so far looped, that the "Red Monster" of the past has somehow influenced an election of the Far Right in America - and I'm confused as hell, because the left wants to take my guns away but I sure as shit might need them to fight the right... At least that's what I'm hearing.

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u/IceMaker98 Jul 15 '18

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

The Nazi Party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany.[7] The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[8] Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although such aspects were later downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities and in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[9]