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| - National Socialism is the product of over a century of political and social thought cultivated in Germanic nations, popularized and first put into action by its foremost proponent, German Führer (Leader) and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. National Socialism was at first a political outlook adopted in several European nations, but evolved quickly into a pan-European vision. It represents the most sound means of assuring the survival and advancement of one's race.
- National Socialism had its origins in socialism, in which the basic core is a control of people, property, and income by a centralized government. The core concepts of socialism were kept, transferred, and implemented in the twenty-five points of the Nazi Party Platform of 1925, which included: Several concepts, however, make National Socialism unique as a political philosophy: When Hitler joined and took control of the German Worker’s Party in 1920, he added what could be the most damaging elements:
- National Socialism, more commonly known as Nazism (also spelt Naziism), is the term used to refer to the collective pre-existing ideologies put into practice by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party - more commonly known as the Nazi Party - throughout the latter half of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. Basic ideologies within Nazism include; Nationalism Fascism Extreme Collectivism Anti-Communism Anti-Democracy Racism Anti-Semitism Anti-Homosexuality (With qualification) Aryan Supremacy
- National Socialism is a moderate form of Economic Authoritarianism. It sits half-way between the collectivist views of Communism and the acceptance of Capitalism by the Social-Republicans. This position translates into stronger support for social programs, state ownership (nationalized industries), unions, and goverment intervention (industry regulation) than one typically sees in social-republicanism. National Socialists, however, stop short of wishing to realize the proletarian revolution.
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| - National Socialism had its origins in socialism, in which the basic core is a control of people, property, and income by a centralized government. The core concepts of socialism were kept, transferred, and implemented in the twenty-five points of the Nazi Party Platform of 1925, which included:
* The abolition of unearned income;
* Nationalization of trusts;
* Inclusion into profit-sharing;
* Increase in old-age pensions;
* Creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class;
* Aguarian reform, which included the siezing of land without compensation;
* State control of education;
* Creation of a "folk" army to supplant or replace the regular army;
* State control of the press [1] Several concepts, however, make National Socialism unique as a political philosophy:
* A regimented, militaristic style of governance which had its origins in the Prussian traditions exemplified by Frederick William I (1688–1740), Frederick the Great (1712–68), and Otto von Bismarck (1815–98);
* A belief of the Nordic “Aryan” man as superior in blood, intellect, and culture over all other races of man, given emphasis by the works of Frederich Nietzsche (Mensch und Übermensch) and other 19th century intellectuals. Added to these beliefs was the science of the time, specifically the theories related to “survival of the fittest” and “natural selection” as postulated by British naturalist Charles Darwin; these theories would be used later as justification for Nazi removal and extermination of non-German people throughout much of Europe prior to and during World War II. When Hitler joined and took control of the German Worker’s Party in 1920, he added what could be the most damaging elements:
* A rabid hatred for anything and anyone not German;
* A passionate German nationalism which demanded an expansion of German territory by force or other means. Prior to World War I, Hitler had been a homeless tramp eking out a meager living as an artist in Vienna, Austria, a multi-ethnic city which included Slavs and Jews among its population; his experience there, as well as the racial propaganda Hitler read voraciously - among them the classic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion - fed into his pro-Germanic racist beliefs. National Socialism did not come into its own until after Germany’s defeat in World War I. What gave it impetus was the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, in which Germany was forced to assume guilt and responsibility for causing the war and the death and destruction which resulted. The Allies’ insistence on the drafting of the treaty without German participation, the heavy reparations, the despair and disillusionment felt by many Germans after the war, and those diplomats Hitler felt had agreed to cease the war (the “November criminals”) were all used in Hitler’s propaganda to persuade as many Germans as possible to support the Nazi cause. The hyper-inflation of 1923 which wiped out middle-class savings and made the German mark worthless added to the National Socialist cause. Hitler went into detail as to what National Socialism would be when he wrote his political testament while in prison in 1922. In Mein Kampf he outlined his racial policies and theories, his theories regarding German expansion, and his understandings of mass psychology and propaganda; in the latter he understood that a weak-minded people would be led by someone who can speak at their level, regarding "truth" less important than "success": "It is part of a great leader's genius to make even widely separated adversaries appear as if they belonged to but one category, because among weakly and undecided characters the recognition of various enemies all too easily marks the beginning of doubt of one's own rightness." Before he was ousted from the party, Hermann Rauschning, National Socialist President of the Danzig Senate in 1933-1934, recalled being told by Hitler that: "Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the general good. There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual belongs to himself. This is Socialism—not such trifles as the private possession of the means of production. Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them then own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or workers. All that, you see, is unessential. Our Socialism goes far deeper . . . ." "[T]he people about us are unaware of what is really happening to them. They gaze fascinated at one or two familiar superficialities, such as possessions and income and rank and other outworn conceptions. As long as these are kept intact, they are quite satisfied. But in the meantime they have entered a new relation; a powerful social force has caught them up. They themselves are changed. What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings." (Peikoff, p. 231) “To be a socialist,” said Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, “is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.” (Peikoff, p. 19)
- National Socialism is the product of over a century of political and social thought cultivated in Germanic nations, popularized and first put into action by its foremost proponent, German Führer (Leader) and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. National Socialism was at first a political outlook adopted in several European nations, but evolved quickly into a pan-European vision. It represents the most sound means of assuring the survival and advancement of one's race.
- National Socialism is a moderate form of Economic Authoritarianism. It sits half-way between the collectivist views of Communism and the acceptance of Capitalism by the Social-Republicans. This position translates into stronger support for social programs, state ownership (nationalized industries), unions, and goverment intervention (industry regulation) than one typically sees in social-republicanism. National Socialists, however, stop short of wishing to realize the proletarian revolution. Note that National Socialism was the initial designation of the Hitler parti, which eventually shifted all the way to the right into Fascism.
- National Socialism, more commonly known as Nazism (also spelt Naziism), is the term used to refer to the collective pre-existing ideologies put into practice by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party - more commonly known as the Nazi Party - throughout the latter half of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. Basic ideologies within Nazism include; Nationalism Fascism Extreme Collectivism Anti-Communism Anti-Democracy Racism Anti-Semitism Anti-Homosexuality (With qualification) Aryan Supremacy As any sane person can tell, Nazism is just about the most horrific, extreme, despicable ideology imaginable, and anyone that follows it must have serious mental health issues. Contrary to the current conservative fashion of emphasizing the "Socialist" in their name (as a way of associating Socialism with Fascism), the Nazis were socialist in name only and actual socialists were among the first people marked for death. Also, contrary to the bleating of the same conservatives, the Nazis were on the right-fringe of politics, not the left.
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