World gone mad: Music conductor fired for making racist joke even though "victim" says no.

[Chris Hu]

Leadified said:

Now then, that creates another problem, because both the Soviet Union and Nazy Germany considered themselves socialist. If we are to believe their rhetoric, they can't both be correct, or else they wouldn't be on opposite sides of the scale. So, either one of them is manipulating the working class with socialist rhetoric in order to keep their support, or both of them are.

If you consider socialism in all forms in opposition to capitalism (in theory) then sure you can put Nazi Germany on the same level as the USSR on the far left. This is more of an issue on how you base your scale rather both states calling themselves socialist.

Actually, no.  The Nazi's where never actually oposed to capitalism and once they gained power they very much where in favor of big buisness and capitalism.  Also once they gained complete power they outlawed all trade unions that is pretty much a very pro capitalism move.  On top of all that they never where real socialist either and any left leaning members of the party where either killed or purged from the party during the Night of the Long Knives.