Quote from: RE on Apr 27, 2025, 11:31 AMThe full name of the Nazi Party was "National Socialist German Workers' Party" (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP in German). They included "socialist" and "workers" in the name for propaganda reasons — to attract working-class Germans who were suffering during the chaos of post-World War I Germany. They used "socialist" to sound appealing to the masses with actual policies favoring corporations, the military, and elite control. They opposed true leftist movements violently.Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 27, 2025, 11:22 AMCapitalism is morphing to eliminate personal property. Doing exactly what red-neck dumfucks said communism would do.
Thus the reason the Nazi Party was originally called the National Socialist Party.
RE
In 1924, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (actual socialists) were one of the most powerful political parties in Germany with a membership of 1,011,000 members. The competition put socialism in their name too.