Video: Proving once again that Hitler was a socialist
A video with Dr. Rainer Zitelmann on the misunderstood economic philosophy of Adolf Hitler and the true meaning of national socialism.
Denying the obvious for over 100 years that a National Socialist German Workers' Party was socialist has always been a foundational lie of the left, in that it undergirds many of their other lies and false narratives. Obviously, if the NSDAP Is Socialist and Nationalist as stated in Chapter 5 of Adolf Hitler's Second Book, it means that they were leftist despite the constant lies to the contrary, sweeping away much of the usual smears and propaganda. The video we're presenting details many of the points we've made over the years from the author of a groundbreaking book on Hitler’s National Socialism.
He points out that we should avoid using the ancient word that's been exploited by the left to obscure the fact that the National Socialist German Workers' Party was socialist. Because if there's one thing leftists are good at, it's lying with language. The author points out that the Original Social Justice Warrior didn't espouse a traditional version of socialism of the state directly owning the means of production. Government control was exerted over privately owned corporations with the threat of nationalization. A modern form of socialism where taxes and regulations control privately owned corporations.
In a Townhall article on his book, What was Hitler’s National Socialism?
In Hitler’s view, the entrepreneur was nothing more than a representative of the state and had to unconditionally fulfill the objectives it set. One of the most important means of reaching this objective was Hitler’s constant – open or veiled – threat of nationalization. If Germany’s entrepreneurs were incapable of achieving the objectives the National Socialist state had set, Hitler threatened time and again, then the state would take this task into its own hands. His actions in the case of the foundation of the Hermann-Göring-Werke and the Volkswagen Werke demonstrated that this was no empty threat.
Another section of the article describes would also place him easily within the ranks of the fascist far-left of today:
Hitler’s objective was the creation of a “national community” in which class barriers were to be abolished. Existing traditions, “class conceit” and “class consciousness” were to be broken down by a process of continuous re-education. The process of ideological leveling was to be accompanied by an actual equalization in many sectors of life.
It's also important to note a curious point that applies to the last election, in that the author discusses at length the tendency of the leftist upper-crust 'intellectuals' to try and impose socialism on the people from the top down – for their own good. Citing the example of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He states these were intellectuals who studied in Paris at Elite Universities wrote doctoral dissertations about perfect socialism and then went back to Cambodia with horrific results. This is a theme that keeps on repeating itself – leftist intellectuals seek to impose what they think is an 'ideal society' on the people – and the people rightfully reject it. Something that needs to be taught to future generations.
Further on in the video, the author addresses the commonly repeated lie that National Socialism couldn't possibly be socialists because they were rivals with the communists, and for leftists, somehow that proves something. Except that there are many examples of rivals have that the same ideology, and we saw the same thing take place in the old Soviet Union, where the Bolsheviks persecuted the Mensheviks and the SRs.
Finally, one last, very important note, in the chapter entitled: Why does the idea of socialism survive its failures? The author makes the point that while we have the facts on our side, the left has emotions and slogans, and he notes that we have to take a page from them to beat them at their own game.
Because the left always has to lie and obfuscate, as was seen in the last election. If they have to deal with the facts and truth they will lose, we just have to make sure that we can use their word-war tactics against them. Engaging with the truth to beat their lies.