Hitler is popular in Bangladesh

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Rath said:

Tyrannical said:

Jew hating and WWII aside, Hitler did transform a broken bankrupt Germany back into an econmic world power in short order. I suppose some countries think they could put to use some of his ideas that don't include concentration camps and world wars. Liberals seem to forget that Hitler was a Socialist.

Having socialist in the party name does not make Hitler a socialist.

Hitler wasn't a socialist, to say that is to have a complete misunderstanding of him economically and politically.

I'm curious why you would think this to be the case.

People generally refer to the democracies of europe as socialist as well.  Yet they don't follow what some consider the main socialist tenent.  Aka ownership of the means of the production by the people.

Using the textbook definition of socialism (and communism for that matter) there has never been a socialist or communist government in existance.

Few people have issues with calling Stalin a Communist even though the government ran the means of production... when in reality such things were supposed to be run by the people with a near nonexistant government after a couple decades.

Unless you want to argue there are no socialists you'd need to find a context of what you consider socialism different from the textbook definition.

I'm interested to see what context you consider "socialism."