Oh, a link war. How original.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/...onah-goldberg/
https://lawofmarkets.com/2019/04/28/...re-socialists/
However, my main argment stays the same: what I daid above, and the link to the article I posted one post above.
Its common nowadays that when socialisj has logged another failed experiment in its rcord, it is claimed that it only failed becasue it was no real socialism, and becasue not everybody went along with it, and in egneral: its always gthe mistake of the others anyway. Socialism is beyind the need to be proven right, just a single time for s atart, it mst not show a lasting success, becasue socialists know that socialism is right, so it must not be proven anymore at all. Since the description of the thrid reich as a socialist regime is a bomb that busts one of the most popular urban myths ever, and takes away the most beloved political Feindbild of the left by which they try to create additional self-legitimation, the left does nto want to realise the obvious truth. KIt would damage their self-perception too drastically.
My granfather was school teacher, German and History. He has lived in the Third Reich, and had to fight in the war. He had severl crashes with the directors and the superiors over his disobedience to not teach Catfish's reinterpretation of things, but to teahc his classes as well that the Third rEich was a socialist regime by fundament. I learned this just in recent years, my mother told me about it. History gets written by the victors, in this case: the Soviet Union amongst others, and The claimed communist regime in Moscow could not need to be put aside the regime in Germany in reputation and content. even if the similarities in the two tyrant'S regimes, stalin and Hitler, were all so obvious. And since then the world gets brainwashed over that the socialism is the natural opponent and enemy of Nazism and thus: is good and positive. It isn'T, and it never was. Its pretty much the same instead. And the mission to demonise capitalism and free market, lives on until today.
Nationalism and racism were just further ingredients of the recipe. But they are just spice, not substance, and they were skimming on the surface, to rally the crowds behind the cause and to have a scapegoat as a security valve for the energy of the masses.