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> ... the authoritarianism [of the Nazis] where you were either their kind of socialist ...

They were no kind of socialist.



It was ethnostate socialism. It was a command economy where industry was at the service of the people, but they had a perverse idea of who their people were and who they weren't.

It really was a left-wing economic model with extreme right-wing social policy, plus lots of genocide.


> It really was a left-wing economic model with extreme right-wing social policy, plus lots of genocide.

So it was a right-wing political model (with lots of genocide) that happened to have a somewhat left-wing economic model.

In economics, economics ranks above politics, but in politics, politics ranks above economics. And Nazism was (is) a political ideology, not a school of economics.




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