Hitler calling himself a "socialist" is a historical semantical difference.
The proper translation for Hitler's socialism would be fascism.
- or maybe racial-extremist fascism (since nationalist seems almost too dull a term for the reality of Nazism). But Hitler heavily opposed both socialism and capitalism.
Capitalism aims to be a merit-based income system, but the reality is it's a risk investment based income system.
Fascism IS a merit-based income system, although the truth of these merits is questionable (with Nazis, they included racial and cultural factors).
Both capitalism and fascism have a profit motive.
To try and illustrate it: capitalism is on the right, socialism on the left... Fascism isn't on this axis, it's somewhere up or down from the center point.
It would be more accurate to say that the goals of fascism - of a merit-based paradise - are more in line with the goals of capitalism than they are with communism or socialism. But it is incorrect to say either is equal to the other.
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