I have heard this countless times, especially from libertarians and many GOP supporters, among others. The argument goes like this:
Clue #1
National Socialist Party of German Workers
Socialist Party of Workers?
Clue #2
A totalitarian state and free market economy regulated by the state coupled with social benefits and a big amount of state involvement in political, economic and social affairs
According to many, it wasn't a "right wing" political party, because "right wing" means "free unregulated market and no state involvement in political, economic and social affairs".
I'm not sure what to say, but to me, most self proclaimed "right wing" parties don't follow the "no state involvement" credo much anyway. Perhaps the left and right dichotomy is dead? Perhaps it was a "mixed" state? What do you think?
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[–] slwsnowman40 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The Nazis were right-wing in Europe as it is my belief the political spectrum is further left. I'm not in Europe and this is from decades of looking at it from the USA, so this is probably an inaccurate assessment.
The Nazis would be to the right of today's leftists and leftists groups like antifa.
[–] downtownchinatown [S] ago
good point. it's, unlike gender, a fluid concept. left wing or right wing seem to mean different things to different people in the political spectrum.
[–] slwsnowman40 ago
I prefer to think of the political ideologies not being on a line or 2D graph, but as a solid sphere. Anarchy would be on the opposite side of totalitarianism (both on the surface), and everything else would be fit into the sphere surface and internal. That's really the only way you can get all these different ideas to fit together "neatly" because they all share so many different parts and pieces.