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Comment by ai_fry_ur_brain

2 days ago

The Nazis did a ton of cutting edge research too.

They also committed genocide as well. Surprising that even after Israeli human rights organizations acknowledge it, it still remains stuck in the mind of capitalists to support profit at any cost.

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    • Interesting question. Trotsky argued that the Nazis were essentially a middle-class phenomena, the forces of capital and labour being weakened to naught by the first world war; once the Nazis achieved power, they had to decide between them, that choice being made on the night of the long knives and the liquidation of the brownshirts.

    • Anyone can name themselves anything. Would you say that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is indeed democratic? I am going to guess not.

      'Socialism' was rather popular in the early part of the 20th century and National Socialism was a right wing response to that, hence the marketing name.

      It was very much corporatist/pro capitalist in its policies and suppressed anything remotely socialist within its borders.

      But I suspect you knew that.

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Did they? Like, which exactly?