If Socialism was bad when Hitler tried it, isn't it still bad now?

Question

Unfortunately, some people forget the lessons of history

Answer 1

Now, now, now, you're just not realizing the people who want to bring back "the good old days" of Socialism & worker equality are only thinking of our well being. You see when you run your life based only on feelings - well it HAS to be better because THEY CARE! LOL!!!

Answer 2

Socialism means the government owns the means of productions. There are different types of socialism. The extreme case is Communism where the government owns all means of production and farming.
In some countries Socialism means the government owns certain industries for example oil and electric, gas services but allows private ownership of other businesses.
Socialism never took root in Nazi Germany. The National Socialists started out as a true socialist movement but had long abandoned it by the time Hitler came to power.
Socialism does not work because governments just are not good at running businesses efficiently especially when competing against capitalists who are profit motivated. Whereas Governments are not profit motivated and are more concerned with keeping workers employed than deliverring efficient services. Any mistakes are just past on to the tax- payer.
Private companies which are profit driven seek to find ways to deliver a product faster, more efficient and cheaper. There is no tax-payer to pass on the costs of failure too.

Answer 3

The Nazis were extreme right wing militants. Hitler's form of government was right-wing fascism. The “socialist” name was a successful way to attract votes from the large working class portion of the population.

The Nazis favored big corporations and financiers and eliminated independent trade unions. Representation for workers was eliminated in favor of the interests of big corporations. Some of the big industrialists even received the benefits of slave labor from the concentration camps.

The Nazis' archenemies within Germany were the communists. The Nazis put left-wing party leaders, communists and trade union leaders into concentration camps and/or murdered them.

The Nazis declared that Germany was a Christian nation and they established the Reich Protestant Church and elected a Reich’s Bishop. The German Christians had supported the Nazis in their rise to power. Several major German industrialists and financiers had also supported the Nazis and became part of Himmler's Inner Circle of Friends.

The Nazis also preached racial superiority and the inferiority of other races and ethnic groups. The Nazis banned modern art, which they considered degenerate, and they banned pacifist literature. They persecuted homosexuals, discouraged women in the workplace and emphasized military training for children through the Hitler Youth.

Answer 4

Hitler was a fascist. He banned the left-wing Communist Party after blaming them for the Reichtag fire (German parliament building). And he banned the left-wing Social Democrat Party when it was the only party to vote against Hitler's Enabling Act.

The right-wing Nationalist and Catholic Centre Party joined forces with the Nazis.

Hitler spoke out against capitalist and communists, but he persecuted communists and allied himself with corporate capitalists.

In the Spanish Civil War, he took the right-wing side of the conflict. The left-wing Republic was defended by communists/socialists from Russia and America. Franco was defended by fascists from Italy and Germany.

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Granted that the XIXth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the XXth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the " right ", a Fascist century.
- Mousolinni, The Doctrines of Fascism
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm

Answer 5

Exactly some liberal politicians want to turn our country into a socialistic state. We have seen from history that people are compelled to work harder rather than just do average for the same credit. For a perfect example look at the Pilgrims, at first they lived in a type of socialism, everyone received the same allotments no matter how much work they did. Hard workers did not work as hard because hard work had no extra benefits from the person who did no work.
The Pilgrims noticed this and changed to a type of capitalism, and using texts from that time the amount of crops grown was so great that they began selling food to the Native Americans.

Answer 6

Hitler was a fascist, socialism is something different. The name of the Nazi party had "socialism" in it, but that is meaningless as an indicator of political philosophy. Consider the "Republican Guard" of Iran, or the "People's Republic of China". Are these people Republicans??

Answer 7

Hey, I'm against socialism... but Hitler isn't the reason to give for it... "Socialism" is an economic system. Hitler's main thrust was "Naziism" and "Facisim" which are governmental - type policies (very, very bad ones, yes) ...

Lots of reasons to be against socialism, lots of reasons to be against facisim, lots of reasons to be against naziism...

Answer 8

Nazi form of socialism isn't the same thing.
You're just taking words straight up as evil, without investigating them. Scary language.
Socialism, in it's concept, is a darned wonderful thing, as is Communism, and that's, again, at their concepts. Bad people tend to bad things, and get a word applied to them that -DOES NOT- apply, and as such, people take that as what something is, when it isn't that thing, and as such, people fear words without reason.

Answer 9

Just because a country calls itself socialist or anything else for that matter doesn't mean it is. Hitlers Germany was a dictatorship run by a lunatic and his lunatic mates. There is no nead to confuse it with anything else.

Answer 10

Have you been learning history from Fox News?