Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "David Hoffman" channel.

@anarcho-pingu "Funny how people don't seem to understand what socialism is. The nazis did not bring about common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. " You do not seem to understand what socialism is either. What you described there is called Marxism, which is just one of the many socialist ideologies. Socialism is an economic system where the collective (such as workers, guilds, the government etc.) either directly own or control the buildings and tools that make goods and services like farms and factories. This can be achieved through decentralized and direct worker-ownership, or through centralized state-ownership or control of the means of production. Nazis had the latter.
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@10secondsrule "It’s got as much to do with socialism as North Korea has with a democratic republic. " You cannot be an advocate for centralized planning and strong government controls without being a socialist. That's what made Hitler a socialist. He may have been to the right from the Bolsheviks, but he was still a socialist leftist as he believed in strong central government control. Hitler outright declared himself a socialist in Mein Kampf, just not the Marxist international or full Soviet type. He struggled with HOW to distinguish his socialism from the rest of the Marxist crowd. Regarding North Korea, it is democratic to a degree. They allow people to vote and hold elections in the first place... unlike a socialist country like Cuba, where neither are a thing.
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There is no Fascism in America in the first place... and Fascism had nothing to do with Nazis anyways.
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@baneofbanes : Nope. Go read some history.
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@godsdonkey "The addition of "socialist" to the party's name was part of a deliberate strategy to attract workers and capitalize on the popular socialist movements of the time " It was added because it signified what they were advocating for, that is, socialism on a national level. Also Hitler was very clear about who he wanted to attract, and that was the rival socialists. After all, he wanted other socialists to join his socialist movement instead. “But we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one.” — Adolf Hitler , Memoirs of a Confidant (1978)
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@wordknower " but the uniting factor is handing the means of production over to the side of labour" Actually, socialism is an economic system where the collective (such as workers, guilds, the government etc.) either directly own or control the buildings and tools that make goods and services like farms and factories. This can be achieved through decentralized and direct worker-ownership, or through centralized state-ownership or control of the means of production.
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@wordknower "where it is under capitalism, which is in the hands of the capitalist class (bourgeoisie)." There are no classes under Capitalism. Anyone can eventually become a "bourgeoisie" and anyone can become an entrepreneur.
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@wordknower "The national socialists were strongly committed to fostering strong relationships with large corporations and privatizing as much of the public sector as possible. " Wrong. They did no such thing. Privatization didn't exist in Na zi Germany. On the contrary, they nationalized most if not all of the German industries and later reorganized all industries into corporations run by members of the N azi Party. They called this nationalization as "Gleichschaltung", a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education.
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@wordknower : You only need to go and read "the Vampire Economy" by Günter Reimann, which explains in detail how socialist the Na zi economy was.
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@E-Pluribus-Unum-26 : The American right is advocating for Liberalism though.
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@E-Pluribus-Unum-26 : Maybe they are not right then. Conservatism ≠ right wing necessarily.
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@E-Pluribus-Unum-26 : What lack of action was that? Did you forget that his administration was behind the operation Warp speed in the first place?
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