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Socialist nationalism… historically this is ideology that leads to industrial death when the Germans try and do it. But seeing how they are absolutely embracing their fascist heritage so deeply in protesting against Palestine Im not shocked.
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The amount of people in my comments right now a trying to claim they know what I’m thinking, and/or also falling into the trap of well it’s left-wing because it says socialist are equally stupid and uninformed.
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Famously leftwing Ernst Röhm 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Did they just rebrand ‘national socialism’ as ‘socialist nationalism’ and think no one would notice, or is this something different…?
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Well technically she began mainly as socialist, but over the previous years she added more and more right-wing views to her talking points so she is anti migrant, anti vax and a TERF but still holds socialist views like reversal of privatization and a strong welfare state.
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This makes here mostly incompatible to the libertarian right wing AfD. Another phrase for her and her party would probably be: the ultimate populist
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But libertarian and strong welfare state are mutually exclusive, are they not? Otherwise she could've just joined the AfD.
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That's the point, there are multiple nationalist parties in Germany now. Also centrists with anti migrant policies, so this will definitely end well!
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Sounds like that one guy.
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It's not "Left wing economics" if only the straight cisgendered individuals of the master race are eligible to benefit from it.
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This headline is like: "No, this isnt horse piss, it's Piss Horse"
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Who‘s included in „they“? The Germans in my bubble despise this woman.
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I am blocked 🤷‍♂️
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You‘re German and not part of „they“… don‘t worry.
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Sarah? Alice? Ulrike? Hm. Wer fällt mir noch ein…. 😂
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Gleich mit dem ersten Treffer versenkt. Sarah.
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Yea Germans largely didn't really realise that Never Again didn't just mean Jewish people. That's why we're rarely thought about the other victims.
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Nazism wasn't socialist (unless one was acceptably white to the Nazis). Among Hitler's first victims were communists and socialists.
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National socialism was about as socialist as compassionate conservatism was compassionate. One of their early priorities was breaking the power of the trade unions. Shirer records a memorable speech in which AH speaks of restoring the authority of the ownership class.
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(1/? ) I misremember. The speech I attribute to AH was Robert Ley. From Shirer: At first...both [AH] and Ley tried to assure the workers that their rights would be protected. Said Ley in his first proclamation: "Workers! Your institutions are sacred to us National Socialists. I myself am a poor...
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(2/?) peasant's son and understand poverty... Workers! I swear to you...we will build up the protection and the rights of workers still further. Within three weeks...[AH] decreed a law bringing an end to collective bargaining...the law, in effect, outlawed strikes...
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(3/3) Ley promised "to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory--that is, the employer. Only the employer can decide. Many employers have for years had to call for the 'master in the house.' Now they are once again to be the 'master in the house."
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All of that was lies by literal Nazis to gain power, the Nazis in no way were socialist ever.
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A lot of people get so distracted by anyone promising that they're different from the establishment that they won't spend 5 seconds looking at their record on, well, anything.
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Fascism feeds on the lonely, the afraid, and the angry and fascists generally know how to lie to each of those individual groups in a way that brings them together, so they can consolidate power 
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Holy freak. Need to get my hands on that book again. Essential reading.
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It's literally just rebranded National Bolshevism.
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It’s not even rebranded they just switched the words around for national socialism, which is the party policy of the Nazi party. Nationalism or nazbols are a bit different 
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"they" are the writers at the Telegraph though. As shit as Wagenknecht is, she doesn't self-describe this way.
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From what I remember her biggest regret was that the GDR ended. So I'm guessing reinstalling a socialist dictatorship in line with her buddy Putin is more her cup of tea.
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So you’re saying, you have no understanding of what Putin or modern Russia is because it’s not a socialest it’s a hard right techno authoritarian regime and it’s capitalist. 
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Nah, that's not what I'm saying, I'm aware what Russia is. Not sure where Wagenknecht will be going yet though, but she's been labeled Putinknecht because of her stance towards Russia.
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Bolshevism was called Bolshevism because national socialists (like the nazis) wanted to distance themselves from Jews fwiw
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This just sounds like national socialism with extra steps
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I don't suppose Russophilia means watching ballet and pairs figure skating or forming Tolstoy book clubs, does it?
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I remember in a nazi forum I was on where someone posted that calling it "social nationalism" instead of national socialism would help in debating people who would otherwise be turned away by the name. I tried this in person with mixed results, mostly people didn't fall for it.
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the germans get all their worst ideas from the US.
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well the "wokery" part and didn't hitler look to the US for his ideas?
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There is an international far right movement and has been for over a decade just because American Nazis are using the word woke, and the French far right and fascist are using the word woke doesn’t mean that it’s some American thing it’s all code in the broader international far right 
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Nazi eugenicists were certainly inspired by Americans, but it's not like they didn't have their own ideas on what eugenics should look like.
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The second sentence doesn't make any sense but go off I guess