Socialist regimes have been te most suppressive in peoples history. Think about Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, etc…
Socialism kills [0]. Or a more eloquent and less extreme read would be "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek
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Socialism kills [0]. Or a more eloquent and less extreme read would be "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek
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>Socialist
Just because the Nazis called themselves National Socialists doesn't make them socialists. Communists and socialists were the first the Nazis sent to concentration camps.
Communists and socialists have a long histories of bloody internecine conflicts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
You'd have to be somewhat detached from the historical record to seriously suggest that all of these, or even a majority, were the result of socialism.
Proof?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism:
>Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production
Given that the Nazis privatized a lot of publicly owned companies such as the Deutsche Bank and the Deutsche Reichsbahn, I don't think the Nazis were socialists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany has more on Hitler's economic views.
It's just that some RW people love to distort the reality to score cheap political points.
Abolishing capital income, confiscation of war profits, nationalization of all trusts, a generous increase in old age pensions, communalization of large stores, nationalization and redistribution of farmland and nationalization of schools.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points....
Whether this meets your definition of "socialism" is mainly a function of how narrowly you define the word. But they were certainly a very economically left wing party.
Politics is so complicated that only a very simple model has predictive value, even with huge variance. I think a single axis order-disorder is the best we can do to talk in general terms.