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'Right-Wing Nazi': The Greatest Lie of the 20th Century
It has become a widespread tactic of the far left, particularly groups like ANTIFA, to accuse anyone who opposes their agenda or challenges the far-left and communist-inspired policies being pushed across the Western world of being a ‘Nazi’ or a ‘fascist.’ This accusation is not only misleading but serves to stifle opposition and silence those who resist their ideological control. To understand the nature of this slander, we have to take a short journey through history and establish some operational definitions of terms. In other words, we need clear definitions that we can both understand and move forward with that understanding. Adding to the Nazi slander, one of the most irritating untruths of the last century post-WWII is the idea that left or right, when extreme enough, becomes the same thing. That somehow, the left wing and right wing form a circle or are somehow the same at the tips. Let’s put that right to rest. Left-wing means collectivist. In modern times, it comes from Karl Marx, although the roots of this kind of thinking can go right back to Plato. Leftism means the individual does not exist. That all must be sacrificed for the state that an individual life means nothing. That the state has god-like powers, not just over life and death of the people, but over reality itself.
The state will determine what is true, and the people must believe it.
In the film 1984, the book written by George Orwell and the film version directed by Michael Radford, there is a scene near the end in which Winston Smith is being tortured until he can actually believe that when he is shown four fingers by a member of The Party, he actually believes it is five because the party said it was five. The torture won’t stop unless and until he actually sees five fingers because he was told there are five fingers. This is the essence of communism. For the sake of argument, one might look at the Trans-Gender issue in this light. Should a person, hypothetically speaking, notice that men are men, and women are women and refuse to accept the state’s position that they can be whatever they say they are in a communist state, that person would find himself arrested and be a bona-fide thought criminal. Reality itself becomes illegal. And this was equally true of the Nazis. If you contradicted an edict of the Nazi party, you would pay a hefty price. In a right-wing state, the free exchange of ideas takes place. The theory or model of reality that most closely resembles the truth tends to become the dominant belief until a better representation of reality appears. We call this process “science.” In Nazi Germany and communist states, sciences are created to prove what the state edicts say is true. In Nazi Germany, the invention of Phrenology, or reading the bumps on a person’s head, was established in order to prove the inferiority or superiority of a given race. In the Soviet Union, evolution was considered capitalist in nature and illegal. Instead, they invented their own biological sciences that had to prove the state’s beliefs on biology and evolution. We call this Scientism. One example of this was Lysenkoism.
Describing the thought process of leftism is an enormous job. Still, for the sake of this article, the fact that it is collectivist, authoritarian, and all things are centrally planned is enough. Also, Karl Marx is, at least on the most superficial level, the progenitor of leftist lines of effort against Western civilization. The weaponizer of Leftist thought against classical civilization—in other words, all of us. Right-wing means that the individual is paramount, that people, as individuals, have rights, and that the job of the state is to preserve those rights and adjudicate when those rights are breached or in conflict with each other from time to time. The right to private property is right-wing and anathema to the left. When Hitler took over Germany, he had his henchmen take over every factory and business, even formerly private clubs and sports organizations, all of which became National Socialist Bowling clubs or flying academies or whatever they had been. In a left-wing society, all that is not expressly permitted is forbidden. In a free society, all that is not expressly forbidden is allowed. In the West, a thief is a criminal. But if one examines how theft as an act is being treatedin leftist states like California and Oregon, we can see a fundamental shift in the entire concept of property rights, even if the language used disguises that intent. An emphasis on class struggle tends to be used to justify leftist theft policies rather than the more honest intent for the dissolution of private property rights. The right to freedom of expression is also right-wing. In fact, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are perhaps the best-codified set of instructions for running a country for the individuals who live there. Hitler’s policies on speech critical of his National Socialist state and Nazi ideology are well known and firmly in the camp of the left. Extreme right-wing would be libertarian. Extreme left-wing would be communism. There is no crossover there. Now, let’s add to this the often-overlooked historical facts. Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s closest allies, himself declared in 1931 that the Nazis were ‘the German left’ and despised the ‘right-wing national bourgeois bloc.’ This is not some modern-day attempt to rewrite history; it comes straight from the Nazi leadership itself. Goebbels made it clear in several statements that the Nazi ideology was deeply rooted in socialism:
These quotes further illustrate how deeply embedded socialist principles were in the Nazi Party, contrary to the modern portrayal of them as right-wing. Despite these facts, anyone who dares to voice the truth that the Nazis were left-wing faces significant backlash today. Austrian journalist Anna Dobler lost her job for simply expressing this view. The Nazis were not just socialists in name; their policies were rooted in anti-capitalism and anti-Semitism, ideas closely tied to leftist doctrines. Their socialist rhetoric went hand in hand with a hatred for capitalism, much like the Bolshevik Soviet Union. As Irish historian Brendan Simms noted, Hitler’s anti-Semitism was deeply tied to his hatred of Anglo-American capitalism, drawing from the same well of leftist anti-capitalist thought that Marx and the Soviet Union had drawn from. National Socialism’s economic policies were hardly the free market many associate with the right. Instead, state intervention was ubiquitous, with the Nazi regime directly controlling production processes through mechanisms like the Reichswerke Hermann Göring. This is strikingly similar to today’s state capitalism in China, where private ownership exists but only under the tight control of the state. Nazi Germany’s economy, much like in communist states, was a centrally planned machine, not a liberal market economy. Even renowned historian Sebastian Haffner argued that Hitler’s real enemies came from the right—aristocrats and conservative elites—who resisted his revolutionary collectivism. Haffner even placed Hitler closer to Stalin than Mussolini, insisting that calling Hitler a fascist was misleading. Fascism in Italy was right-wing, but Hitler’s National Socialism was a revolutionary left-wing movement at its core. Furthermore, there were no death camps in Italy, and over 100,000 Jewish members were part of Mussolini’s Fascist party. National Socialism was, in fact, a synthesis of Soviet Communism and Italian Fascism, designed to push Nazism further left, even beyond the Soviets. The Nazis didn’t just hate Jews based on racial ideology; they viewed Jews as enemies of the state in both national and socialist terms, much like the Soviet Union’s own persecution of Jews. In conclusion, Stalinist historical distortion has allowed modern narratives to wrongfully categorize the Nazis as right-wing. The tactic of labeling fascism as ‘capitalism in crisis’ was a deliberate effort to distance the left from the horrors of National Socialism. But make no mistake—the Nazis were a left-wing, collectivist, anti-capitalist, authoritarian regime. They shared far more with Stalin’s communists than they ever did with any form of right-wing ideology. The facts are undeniable: National Socialism and Communism are two versions of the same ideology. The right champions the individual, while the left sacrifices the individual to the state. There is no “meeting in the middle.” Additional Sources An excellent film that highlights the true nature of leftism is The Soviet Story. For a more in-depth exploration of the socialism and socialist philosophy behind Hitler’s National Socialism, Tik History offers extensive coverage in several videos on YouTube, including one that directly addresses this claim with supporting source materials. Hitler’s Brownshirts battled ANTIFA in the streets and emerged victorious. Afterward, many ANTIFA members switched sides, joining the Nazis in their fight against the actual right wing, which opposed the concept of an all-powerful state. For more details, refer to chapters 4 and 5 of Postmodernism Explained by Stephen Hicks.
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