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Re: What’s the most offensive/non-PC record you’ve come across?
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 5:06 pm
by gramophone-georg
Curt A wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 3:24 pm
CORRECTION: "Nationalsozialistische," which is the German word for "National Socialist".
Yes, that was the name... but it was only a name.
"Were the Nazis socialists? No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934. But to address this canard fully, one must begin with the birth of the party."
https://www.britannica.com/story/were-t ... socialists
Re: What’s the most offensive/non-PC record you’ve come across?
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:44 pm
by Governor Flyball
Some social media accounts seize on the party's proper name in arguing the Nazis, who have become synonymous with fascism and the far right, were actually socialists.
Many of these assertions plainly or implicitly disparage current-day social democratic parties and their leaders by likening them to the Nazis. Such claims have circulated online for years.
However, historians point out the Nazi Party did not embrace socialism, as it is commonly defined, in any significant sense. Once in power, the Nazis were enemies of genuine socialism and aimed to wipe out the political left.