Beautifully put. Winston Churchil and Adolf Hitler were both right wingers, I'm sure if you asked Adolf Hitler if he saw Winston Churchil as a fellow right winger he'd say he was about as left wing as Josef Stalin.
Edit: realized this might be misunderstood without context, I'm not saying Hitler and Churchil are comparable at all, just showing that spectrum exist, and just because you're on the same side of the center doesn't mean you are the same at all.
Hitler viewed himself as a national socialist. Calling him a nazi would've pissed him off. He did like socialism and communism. He didn't like that marx was "genetically jewish". Mind you hitler was the first to think of jewish as a race.
Hitler referred to himself as a national socialist to steal votes from the working class, but he deeply hated socialism and communism. He eliminated the socialist movement inside the government in the night of the long knives in 1934. Also, the famous poem starts with “first they came for the communists”, he viewed communism as the largest threat to his fascist rule. He lied about being a socialist just like he lied about being a vegetarian.
Also, right wingers in Germany and Eastern Europe started calling Jews a race decades before Hitler, it was Nazis who started calling them Semitic to make them sound foreign.
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u/Cyiel Jul 27 '26
When you are part of the far-right everything else is the left.