It wasn't a thing for Hitler; he wiped out that faction of the party in the Night of the Long Knives. It never informed party policy while in power. Except for the Strassers, no other leading Nazis paid any attention to it
I wonder if people scornful of the idea that the socialism part of National Socialism meant anything have the faintest clue that Strasserism was a thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism …
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Not true according to Ian Kershaw. Sympathy for "socialist" approach in North Germany in 1923/24. Young Goebbels saw himself as a revolutionary. But yes, Hitler killed it.
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My suspicion is that it discomfits people to admit it due to our society’s bizarre, increasingly widespread purity-obsession.
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(The (profoundly flawed) reasoning seems to run: ‘if Nazism incorporated elements of socialism then any ideology incorporating elements of socialism is A Bad Thing
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People who necessarily associate economic systems with the evil deeds of the people who weaponized them haven't really thought hard enough about it anyway
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