Explanation: The Nazis, formally the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, are sometimes claimed to be socialist by modern right-wing chuds who want to distance themselves from the Nazis (and blame leftists for it instead).
… the only major opposition to the Nazis before their effective coup were socialists, who engaged in street fighting with Nazi thugs in an attempt to save Weimar Germany from its own idiotic self; and after the Nazi coup, large amounts of socialists were imprisoned and killed for the crime of being socialists. The Nazi Party was not aligned with socialists in any meaningful sense, and Hitler defined the Nazi Party’s particular brand of socialism very… curiously.
‘Why’, I asked Hitler, ‘do you call yourself a National Socialist, since your party program is the very anthesis of that commonly accredited to Socialism?’
‘Socialism’, he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, ‘is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.
‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.
‘We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one…
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse : for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.
I think this is really just a description of assholes (of which anti-semites are a subset). I feel this could apply to the people of tons of other political groups.
Explanation: The Nazis, formally the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, are sometimes claimed to be socialist by modern right-wing chuds who want to distance themselves from the Nazis (and blame leftists for it instead).
… the only major opposition to the Nazis before their effective coup were socialists, who engaged in street fighting with Nazi thugs in an attempt to save Weimar Germany from its own idiotic self; and after the Nazi coup, large amounts of socialists were imprisoned and killed for the crime of being socialists. The Nazi Party was not aligned with socialists in any meaningful sense, and Hitler defined the Nazi Party’s particular brand of socialism very… curiously.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew
I think this is really just a description of assholes (of which anti-semites are a subset). I feel this could apply to the people of tons of other political groups.