re: Michigan governor says demonstrators were carrying CSA and Nazi signs

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They had as much in common

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Like what specifically? Give me some specific examples.

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Facts hurt sometimes.

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Repeating "both are socialists" doesn't amount to what I would call a fact.

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Repeating "both are socialists" doesn't amount to what I would call a fact.

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You think it not a fact that the national socialist german workers party was socialist.

Okay. Read more.

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You think it not a fact that the national socialist german workers party was socialist.

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Did you ignore my post on purpose?

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Okay. Read more.

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Do you want a bibliography of what I've read about the German economy during the era? I can provide one.

Nothing I said is without a source.

That's a weird thing to read into my post, but you do you.

You're working overtime to claim the national socialist german workers party was not socialist.

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The economic program was certainly not socialist

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Well, it was - universal health care, compulsory national service (for public works projects, etc.) and while corporatist, not collectivist, they did do lots of centralized economic planning to ensure that the needs of the state were paramount.

The fact they equated the health of their society with the health of their single political party is largely indistinguishable from Soviet-style, Stalinist philosophy. The chief differences, as I indicated earlier, were centered around nationalism (Germany first) vs globalism/internationalism (An international Communist revolution) and the whole concept of corporatism (hiring companies) vs collectivism (eliminating private ownership and taking direct state ownership of property, factories and businesses).

In neither system - National Socialism (or Facism, which was essentially the same thing in Italy or Spain) nor Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyite "Communism" was the individual supreme. It was either the party and nation embodied by its leader , or a less tangible notion of "Communism" and party embodied by its leader. Only subtle vagaries in language, tone and target distinguish the two - the methods and motives were largely identical.

This is anathema to us in the United States where, at least the theory and principle remains, the individual reigns supreme.

I already pointed out to him that NSDAP was state corporatist socialism, but apparently that doesn't count in his mind because "something something nationalism military junta something something"

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nationalism military junta

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But the nationalism vs internationalism (and, corporatism vs collectivism, for that matter), is just the sales pitch tailored to an audience.

I mean, the U.S. "piloted" a version of this in the 1930s and 1940s - first with the ill-headed "New Dea" and then, unfortunately by necessity, World War II. We didn't like it. We went back to making money in the 1950s.

The best analogy is auto racing. Nazi Germany was running the same race as the Soviet Union. Just using a different chassis and engine combination. Maybe different choices of ground effects or tires.

But the same race - that race is Progressive Socialism.

Bruh, you're responding to the wrong one.

Crazy4lsu thinks nazism a nationalist military junta (read back his posts).

I was insulting his inaccuracy