So who were the Nazis, and what did they stand for?
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All explained by Emery Jones over at American Thinker (don’t bother, Rover, it’s not for mouth-breathers)
Biden finally pulled the Nazi card when describing President Trump.
Sadly, this has become common throughout both the mainstream and social media. With both sides calling the other Nazis, it might be a good time to ask some fundamental questions: Who were the Nazis, and what do they stand for? Few people can answer that correctly, despite their strong emotional attachment painting their political foes as such.
To understand the Nazis accurately, you have to read their own quotes and propaganda. The story told by the Nazis themselves depicts a very different party than what modern journalists would like us to believe. The Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) or National Socialists as they called themselves, had the following five key characteristics:
The Nazis were a self-proclaimed socialist movement that called for the end of capitalism, abolishment of non-labor income (interest and finance), and proposed an all-powerful central authority to regulate the market
Racial identity politics was used to identify an oppressor class (Jews), that embodied both the evil nature of capitalism and the anti-German nature of communism
Strong nationalistic pride was a core pitch to the people to justify a stronger central authority
The party used militant radical socialist activists to harass businesses and political enemies with acts of violence
Limitations on free speech and removing access to dissenting views
Four out of five of points will be familar with anyone who follows the writings of our modern academics, mainstream media’s Democratic scribes, and college/Antifa screamfests.
Jones follows with a full discussion, with footnotes. Here’s the backup on Point 1:
[Biden’s favorite Nazi] Joseph Goebbels could not have been more clear on this topic:
We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists. [1]We are a workers’ party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance. . . The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community. Labor means creating value, not haggling over things.[2]The money pigs of capitalist democracy… Money has made slaves of us… Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood. [3]
