Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

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Tober said:

OdinHades said:

Schwarz-rot ist die Antifa, Antifa bin auch ich!

The more people are shifting to the right and are voting the Nazi scum from AfD for whatever stupid reason, the more extreme I'm leaning to the left. Because we all know what happened the last time when nazis took over germany. I consider it my duty to fight back against exactly that.

I'm not German, I'm your friendly western neighbor. I don't know much about AfD, but why are they considered rightwing? The Nazi's where socialist (it's in the name). Are AfD hardcore capitalist?

The Nazis were not socialist. At. All!

Yes, socialist is in the name, but if the name would be always saying exactly how the party is, then we'd have to move the statue of liberty from New York to Pyongyang. I mean, how can you be freer than in a democratic people's republic? Except that North Korea is neither democratic, for or from the people, and it's not even really a republic as the leader always comes from the same family.

Also, you have to consider National socialism in German is one word, not two. Linguistically, it suggests that this means socialism towards the nation, essentially turning socialism, which means from the state or nation towards the people, on it's head. Basically, national socialism means not that the state does things for the people, but that the people are supposed to do everything for their nation.

Finally, consider who the big backers of the nazis were: They were all big corporation bosses, not exactly the people who would back socialism. They did so because the nazi platform was patently anti-socialism and pro-corporations: unions got outlawed, wages frozen, worker rights eroded and companies could basically do as they please.

So no, the nazis were anything but socialist!