I remember someone here once said something like “National Socialist German Worker’s party was a mishmash of political terms that would have sounded to a German like the Woke republican Democratic Maga party would have sounded to an American”
A lot of American libs don’t realize that the “socialist” political party label was widely popular in Europe in the early twentieth century, so it doesn’t occur to them that the naming was opportunistic. And that’s before Hitler came in and Night of Long Knives’d the party.
Mussolini was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party due to his support of WWI, and later he founded fascist Italy as the “Italian Social Republic”, following a hodgepodge of populist and bourgeois-friendly policy. But sure, the ur-fascists were acshually socialists.
I remember someone here once said something like “National Socialist German Worker’s party was a mishmash of political terms that would have sounded to a German like the Woke republican Democratic Maga party would have sounded to an American”
A lot of American libs don’t realize that the “socialist” political party label was widely popular in Europe in the early twentieth century, so it doesn’t occur to them that the naming was opportunistic. And that’s before Hitler came in and Night of Long Knives’d the party.
Mussolini was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party due to his support of WWI, and later he founded fascist Italy as the “Italian Social Republic”, following a hodgepodge of populist and bourgeois-friendly policy. But sure, the ur-fascists were acshually socialists.