>Nazi is not short for socialist, in fact, it is completely opposite on the Facist Spectrum. Nazism is Capitalist, Socialist is more communisum.
This is a fallacy. First, Nazi is indeed short for "National Socialist". Second, one only has to examine the policies of the legislative arm and party members other than Hitler to see the socialist core of facist philosophy. Remember, Nazi Germany was the first industrialized nation to introduce socialized medicine and universal gun control.
A little known fact is that the political philosophy behind German facism was mostly derived not by Hitler, who concerned himself with more with foreign and military matters rather than the domestic agenda, but by Geobbels who clearly expressed his ideas on the subject. It is a mistake to view the German economy of the Nazi era as anything approaching capitalist. The fact of the matter was, the free market was eliminated under the Nazi regime and was replaced by a state-sanctioned (and often state-run) series of monopolies. "Big Business" in Germany was indeed under state control - either directly or indirectly. This is not a free market at all - but a bloodless manifestation of Karl Marx's predicted revolution.
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>Nazi is not short for socialist, in fact, it is completely opposite on the Facist Spectrum. Nazism is Capitalist, Socialist is more communisum. This is a fallacy. First, Nazi is indeed short for "National Socialist". Second, one only has to examine the policies of the legislative arm and party members other than Hitler to see the socialist core of facist philosophy. Remember, Nazi Germany was the first industrialized nation to introduce socialized medicine and universal gun control. A little known fact is that the political philosophy behind German facism was mostly derived not by Hitler, who concerned himself with more with foreign and military matters rather than the domestic agenda, but by Geobbels who clearly expressed his ideas on the subject. It is a mistake to view the German economy of the Nazi era as anything approaching capitalist. The fact of the matter was, the free market was eliminated under the Nazi regime and was replaced by a state-sanctioned (and often state-run) series of monopolies. "Big Business" in Germany was indeed under state control - either directly or indirectly. This is not a free market at all - but a bloodless manifestation of Karl Marx's predicted revolution.