In response to other socialists who claim that National Socialism isn’t real socialism because it doesn’t outright nationalize everything. Hitler:
“Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.”
(Adolf Hitler quoted in Koppel S. Pinson’s History of Modern Germany and in Robert Hessen’s “Why Does Socialism Continue to Appeal to Anyone?”)
Related: My Nietzsche and the Nazis. (And this eight-minute clip from the earlier documentary.)
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I enjoy your work and the following is something you might appreciate. Have you noticed how the Liberty Movement is ignorant that Hitler didn’t self-identify as “Nazi” nor “Fascist”? Libertarians and Conservatives share this widespread ignorance. I would be happy to help you combat this problem among your fans. Here are some fascinating facts that most people need to learn in the Liberty Movement-
1. Hitler and his supporters self-identified as “socialists” by the very word in voluminous speeches and writings. The term “Socialist” appears throughout Mein Kampf as a self-description by Hitler.
2. Hitler never called himself a “Nazi.” There was no “Nazi Germany.” There was no “Nazi Party.” Those terms are slang to hide how Hitler and his comrades self-identified: SOCIALIST.
3. Hitler never called himself a “Fascist.” That term is misused to hide how Hitler and his comrades self-identified: SOCIALIST.
4. The term “Nazi” isn’t in “Mein Kampf” nor in “Triumph of the Will.”
5. The term “Fascist” never appears in Mein Kampf as a self-description by Hitler.
6. The term “swastika” never appears in the original Mein Kampf.
7. There is no evidence that Hitler ever used the word “swastika.”
8. The symbol that Hitler did use was intended to represent “S”-letter shapes for “socialist.”
9. Hitler altered his own signature to reflect his “S-shapes for socialism” logo branding.
10. Mussolini was a long-time socialist leader, with a socialist background, raised by socialists to be a socialist, and he joined socialists known as “fascio, fasci, and fascisti.”
11. Fascism came from a socialist (e.g. Mussolini). Communism came from a socialist (e.g. Marx). Fascism and Communism came from socialists.
12. German socialists and Soviet socialists partnered for International Socialism in 1939. They launched WWII, invading Poland together, and continued onward from there, killing millions. Soviet socialism had signed on for Hitler’s Holocaust.
13. After Hitler’s death, Stalin continued the plan he had made with Hitler for Global Socialism. Stalin took over the same areas that Hitler had captured. He used the same facilities that Hitler had used. Hitler’s Holocaust never ended. Stalin replaced Hitler.
14. Hitler and Marx were popular in the USA. Two famous American socialists (the cousins Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy) were heavily influenced by Marx. The American socialists returned the favor: Francis Bellamy created the “Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag” that was the origin of Nazi salutes and Nazi behavior. The Bellamys were American national socialists.
15. The classic military salute (to the brow) also contributed to the creation of the Nazi salute (with the right-arm extended stiffly).
16. The Bellamy cousins promoted socialist schools that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy.
Those are some of the amazing revelations in books I have authored. For example see the book “Come Inside My Head: Karl Marx.” It cites the discoveries of the historian Dr. Rex Curry. If you would like a free copy or more information, then please let me know. I can help you with any questions.
Thank you.
Ian Tinny