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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (379442)4/21/2008 1:03:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1573850
 
Yet, it is important to you to label the Nazis with it.

That seems odd.

It seems odd to me that its so important to deny that Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party and that they thought they were socialists.

I see this as an attempt to keep socialisms image from being sullied. I also think socialism's image is pretty bad anyway, even w/o counting Hitler.

"You don't now deny that Hitler called and considered himself a socialist."

I never denied he called himself a socialist. I don't think he considered himself as such because he never acted that way.

Sheesh, he called himself and his party socialist, but didn't mean it. You'd have to read his mind to know that.

"I didn't. I think I got into the conversation when the defenders of socialism began calling Hitler a "devout Christian"."

But, he labeled himself one. Given that your argument is that he was a socialist because he labeled himself as such, why doesn't it apply here?

I see your argument. I would consider this different because he ruled a country which was overwhelmingly at least nominally Christian. Even he could've faced opposition if he'd come out openly against Christianity. So I have an argument to explain his public vs private words on Christianity.

Now you could use a similar argument to support your belief Hitler didn't really mean it when he called himself and his party socialist, if you could show the vast majority of the German people were at least nominally socialist.
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