Originally Posted by
drillerpie
Well I see you've withdrawn the suggestion that they were liberal, which is just as well because that was the most absurd of the three, being a totalitarian regime it couldn't be further from either classic or modern liberalism.
I believe that the Nazis were not left wing socialists, that's correct. I notice Marx has been quoted, how many references to the proletariat in Nazi propaganda, not many (if any) as far as I know, it was all about ethnic purity (hi Tricky) and national identity. If the violent overthrow of those in power is enough to be called Marxist and therefore socialist, every revolution ever was socialist.
I think that's too simplistic.
As regards the name National Socialism, North Korea is called the Democratic Republic of North Korea, but it doesn't mean it's democratic.