Was the historic Hitler a left-leaning centrist?

Question

If you look at history before the progressives revised it, Hitler was often lionized by the socialists of the world and specifically by American progressives like Dewey, James, and Sanger. Only after the rise of communist socialism and the fall of National Socialist Germany, did progressives in America and socialists worldwide distance themselves from him and his policies. Why don't progressives today embrace him? He only mass murdered 6 million. They embrace communism that has mass murdered well over 100 million and counting. What gives?

Answer 1

Fascism was left wing as it was invented by Mussolini. Mussolini was remarkable in that he was one of the few revolutionaries of the time who did not mass murder millions of his own people. In fact, his rise to power went astonishingly smoothly and quickly. He committed the targeted killings of some people, but nowhere near on the same scale as Stalin and Hitler did.



This make Stalin intensely jealous, because fascism was working much better than the long hard bloody fight Stalin went through to achieve his own power. Stalin immediately branded Mussolini as right wing, mainly out of jealously over how much better fascism was working as compared to Stalinism.



Stalin called it right wing because it simply made the existing capitalist owners of the means of production into members of the fascist government, thus accomplishing the nationalization of the means of production without having to confiscate the means of production from its capitalist owners, as Stalin did. Giving the capitalists a high government title and a government paycheck won them over much more quickly than a bloody revolution.



This enraged Stalin, and he said that perpetuating the existing capitalist ownership was right wing.



Really, it was left wing propaganda. By definition, fascism was as left wing as anything Stalin was doing. It was just working much better under Mussolini's leadership.



When Hitler came along, he took the parts of fascism and Stalinsm that seemed to be working the best, and he called it National Socialism. Of course, taking parts from two left wing systems results in another left wing system.

Answer 2

Interestingly, I see people here comparing the Tea Party to the Nazi's. LOL. The Tea Party wants much less government while the Nazi's had a dictator (Hitler). Huge difference right off the bat. The Tea Party believes all peoples should have the ability to thrive and be treated equally under the law. Hitler murdered Jews, Communists, Catholics, and people of other races. He was trying to eliminate all but the so-called master race. I have never heard anything like that out of the Tea Party and never will.



The Democrats (Progressives) in the US want to control political activism using the government agencies and by controlling the MSM. That is very Hitler like. While they don't talk about a master race, their eugenics programs in the first half of the 20th century were often targeted at minorities and the physically/mentally challenged. In fact, Hitler himself communicated with Progressives in the US to compare notes.

Answer 3

Communist Socialism had already risen long before Hitler came on the scene...Most everything Hitler said was a lie...Its possible that he tried to align himself with a popular socialist movement but there was no sincerity involved..His Goal was Global domination and he would say and do what ever it took to get their...lies in Politics are called propaganda in fact I think that is a word Hitler possibly invented...I think it was first used to describe the Nazi media blitz. To use Propaganda successfully you must mix truth and lies together this giving your statements some validity but the ultimate goal is to confuse the situation so that power can be achieved with out revealing the real truth and facts...This is a system of though that Hitler was a master at.

Answer 4

Tick back the clock of history to where Stalin declared Fascism and National Socialism "Brothers in Socialism" When western intellectuals debated the virtues of both left wing ideologies over the decadent western capitalist/republican anarchist economic/multi party political "evils". Those halcyon days before Operation Barbarossa forced Stalin into a 3 day isolated funk. After which he declared both right wing enemies of democracy and socialism.

Answer 5

If you read anything written before 1980, you will see very clearly that absolutely nobody says Hitler was anything but extreme right wing. For an example, the end of the first chapter of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is a good place to look.Hitler was extreme right, and anyone who says differently is a modern nazi seeking to distance himself from the evil of the Nazis.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

no. Hitler was more right wing than left wing. More war, more government , etc. However his desire for government schooling was appealing to both the right and the left much like today's Democrats and Republicans.

Answer 8

YesI'd say so,According to the left wings support for Hamas.

I beleive today Hitler would also support hamas since the hatred for jews is something the left and hitler both shared.

Answer 9

Trying to paint Hitler in a way, to look less similar than the Tea Party is, and will always be a failure

Answer 10

Of course.



And recall, internationally, hitler embraced the peaceniks of the world in order to have them help him do his bidding in keeping their countries from interfering in his plans of expansion, invasions, and murder.



Girl rising, your articles prove no such thing about hitler being right wing. All they have are a couple of people labeling the current neo nazi movement as "Right wing". But I love this paragraph from one of your articles:



Yes, there is a wide range of opinion in the various right-wing parties in the European countries as it concerns their attitudes towards Israel and the Jewish people, from strongly pro-Israel to anti-Semitic, but distinctions need to be made in developing a plan for contending with these trends. In any event, the real and consistent threat to Israel comes from the European Left, which has repeatedly proven its dangerous anti-Israel leanings by shamelessly cavorting with the Islamic ideologues and other haters of Israel.

Answer 11

Not according to everyone in Europe, They seem to think that he was right wing.



Over the last two years, there has been somewhat of a resurgence of the nazi movement throughout Europe. Most of these political groups generally have the same platforms.



Keep immigrants out.

Taking their country back.

No Jews and other minorities.

No socialism.



I will try to find some examples for you.

Answer 12

You like Hitler, don't you? He's your pin up boy when you dress up in the uniform in your bunker and touch yourself.

Answer 13

No. You are attempting to revise history.