Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "I Took A Political Compass Test" video.

If you have to spank a child, you have already failed as a parent and you have no clue how to deal with a child.
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"Being spanked is not abuse. It's discipline. " Care to elaborate why such "discipline" method is not used in schools, workplaces or in the army? ... and why it is only used by failed parents who shouldn't have kids in the first place?
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There is no such thing as "discipline spanking". It's by definition, physical abuse. There is no area in a modern society, where spanking is used a discipline method, not even in the Army.
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@ser6Ijvolk "It really wasn't. "Socialist" was only in their name. " Wrong. By definition it was. 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.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Like how North Korea calls itself the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" without being democratic, or governed by the people, or a republic." North Korea certainly is democratic to a degree. After all, they allow people to vote and hold elections in the first place... meanwhile in countries like socialist Cuba, neither elections nor voting are a thing.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Besides, if you put Hitler there, where will you put Stalin?" Both are in the same place, in the far-left category. Marxism, National Socialism and Fascism were all different forms of socialism, and the major disagreement they all had, was about the implementation of socialism. Marxism focused on the proletarians. National Socialism focused on the "aryans" and Fascism focused on the nation as a whole. All of them considered their own ideology to be "proper socialism" and others doing socialism wrong.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Being socialist on some issues doesn't make one a socialist." There is only one thing that makes you a socialist; being in favor of collectivization / socialization of the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods.
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@ser6Ijvolk " Rather, you seem to be mixing up authoritarianism with socialism," Wrong. Authoritarianism is a form of governance, while socialism is an economic system. However, socialism necessitates authoritarianism.
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@ser6Ijvolk "not because he thought it's an effective way to develop the country's economy. " Wrong. "Germany's economic policy is conducted exclusively in accordance with the interests of the German people. In this respect I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people." Speech on the 21st Anniversary of the National Socialist Party (24 February 1941)
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@ser6Ijvolk "And no, the DPRK is NOT a democracy to ANY degree or by ANY metric." I never said that they would have democracy. I said they are democratic to some degree, and certainly more democratic than some socialist countries.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Hitler was not in favor of collectivization." Actually he was. "A strong State will see that production is carried on in the national interests, and, if these interests are contravened, can proceed to expropriate the enterprise concerned and take over its administration." - Hitler and I (1940), quotes from unspecified earlier dates per Otto Strasser, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940)
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@ser6Ijvolk "Don't tell me that you're not confusing a state dictating to its production sector during wartime economy with a planned economy of a socialist state, because that's literally what you're doing with Hitler's Germany. One stems from necessity of war and is purely forced authoritarianism, the other is an extension of socialist anti-capitalist policies." 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. National Socialists had the latter.
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@ser6Ijvolk "He's gone on record to say that capitalism and social classes are there for a reason and are a good thing." Wrong. He has never said such a thing. Hitler always hated Capitalism and regarded it as one of the "Jewish ploys'. Also Hitler didn't actually believe in "social classes" in the first place. He believed in one "class" defined by race.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Only some of his policies were socialist." Their whole economy was socialist. It was centralized and planned, and almost identical to the USSR under Stalin. Also on the contrary, most of their policies were socialist from the beginning, which you can read from their 25 program manifesto.
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@ser6Ijvolk "Why would I read from his manifesto when Germany under him was characterized by privatization and not nationalization? Look at what he did, not what he said." Nope, it wasn't. On the contrary, it was characterized by nationalization only. There was no privatization of any kind in Nazi Germany. They nationalized most if not all of the German industries and later reorganized all industries into corporations run by members of the Nazi 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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@ser6Ijvolk "And how many times should I tell you that a wartime economy is in practice similar to a socialist planned economy, but is completely different politically?" War started only after 1939. Nazis got into power during 1933.
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@VelvetPrince ".....national socialism is far right..." Wrong. National Socialism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on ethnonationalism. Nothing to do with right wing whatsoever.
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"Questions like "Some people are better than others" are highly correlated with voting conservative. Whehter you like it or not. It ties in to conservative/nationalist ideology." However it shouldn't tie to anything, since it's an objective fact and has nothing to do with politics in the first place.
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"We should FORCE THEM to adhere to policies that benefit society. " You already can... by voting with your wallet.
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