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Not at all - I'm just confused about the whole left / right distinction being proposed by the OP, since "nationalization" was never (as far as I can tell) part of the "left" at least when we talk about _socialism_. National socialists were definitely interested in "nationalizing" things, but socialists were a little bit more broad in their interpretation of what they were doing with "the stuff that isn't property" (at least as far as I understand it).

But maybe the OP was not talking about "what they thought they were doing" only describing "what they do / did"?

I was articulating the sorts of things leftists often push for. Nationalizing industry is one such thing - holding industry in common good for the people is one flavor of leftist. You see that in Soviet style communism, for example.

It's not the only way to be leftist. You can be leftist and anti central government, for instance. You cannot, however, be leftist and staunchly capitalist.

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