Was Hitler Far Left or Far Right?

By Leo Gura - August 29, 2024

This video is an astonishing piece of propaganda. I’d like you to just admire it:

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“Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not.” — Hitler speech, 1923

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Everything Prager said is ahistorical, misleading, backwards, and ignorant.

Here’s the historical reality:

Hitler was a far-right ultra nationalist.
As soon as Hitler took power in 1933, that same year he banned the German Communist party, arresting all its members. That same year Hitler banned the Democratic Socialist party. All remaining left-wing parties in Germany were banned or harassed out of existence.
Hitler ended democracy in Germany. Hitler viewed democracy as against Nature, where Nature meant that the strong must rule the weak.
Hitler believed that Marxism and Communism were an evil leftist plot by the Jews. Communists and left-wingers were Hitler’s top enemy alongside Jews.
Hitler hated Communists and Marxists just as much as Jews. Because he didn’t distinguish between them.
The “socialism” in National Socialism meant an extreme form of German nationalism. The entire purpose of the movement was to centralize power in a rigid hierarchy to serve a nationalist agenda.
Hitler’s nationalist agenda was similar to Christian Nationalism and Project 2025.
Hitler’s whole movement was deeply ethnocentric and glorified the return of Germany to its traditional roots, values, and glory.
Nazis held traditional conservative values: masculinity, strongman hyper-masculine leadership, patriarchy, survival of the fittest, traditional family values, religious mysticism, persecution of minorities and deviants, a rigid power hierarchy, conformity to traditional culture, etc.
Most businesses in Nazi Germany were privately owned. Private property existed.
Some industries were denationalized and privatized.
Heavy state control and intervention was implemented in order to make sure that industry fit Nazi nationalist goals and militarization needs.
Hitler allowed German industrialists to earn huge profits.
Independent labor unions were banned. Worker rights and strikes were suppressed.
Hitler and Nazism was closed vs open to diversity of perspectives and peoples. Anti-pluralist.
Hitler did not divide the world by race, he divided it by ethnicity, privileging German/Aryan ethnicity and blood.
“Blood and soil” is a classic Nazi slogan which is now adopted by the American far-right/alt-right. Right-wing conservatives chant “Blood and soil”, leftists and progressives do not.
Holocaust denial is largely a racist right-wing phenomenon. The left wing does not engage in Holocaust denial.
Race IQ and race science is popular on the right, not the left.
Prager saying that the right-wing is not obsessed with race is ridiculous and false. The KKK is a classic racist right-wing group, and there are many more. Racism is most popular with conservatives. It is conservatives who oppose interracial marriage. It is conservatives who complain about ethnic minorities “invading” the country. It is conservatives who complain about The Great Replacement.
White supremacists are conservative and right-wing.
It is conservatives who are caught on video praising Hitler and doing Hail Hitler salutes. It is conservatives who do apologetics for Hitler.
Hitler did not hate capitalism. He hated Communism. Which is why most businesses in Nazi Germany were privately owned. If Hitler hated capitalism he could have abolished private ownership of businesses. The reason Hitler so-called “hated capitalism” was because he needed organize Germany industry to fuel his insane levels of militarization for war. In this sense it was similar to how the US economy was state-guided during WW2 in order to mobilize for war. A war economy has to be highly coordinated by the state, that doesn’t make it socialist or Communist.
All historians recognize Fascism as right-wing. Hitler is recognized as a Fascist. Hitler was friendly with far-right Fascist leaders like Mussolini.
Nazism strictly promoted traditional gender roles.
Nazism was strongly anti-egalitarian and anti-equality. The strong are supposed to rule the weak.
Nazism was anti-intellectual, with suspicious of university academics and intellectuals.
Nazism hated “degenerate” unorthodox art. Just like how today’s right-wingers hate postmodern art.
Nazism opposed democracy, liberal values, progressive values, pluralism, and diversity.
Nazism opposed individual creative self-expression, forcing conformity to traditional roles and values.
The term “socialism” in National Socialism was used as a strategy to appeal to and attract average working people, who were attracted to Marxist ideals about empowering the working class. Given Marxism’s popularity at the time, Hitler wanted to tap into that populist energy in order to gain power.
For Hitler, the term “socialism” meant a form of national solidarity and collectivism based on race and nation, not class. By this logic, today’s Christian Nationalists could be called Christian Socialists because they want to build a nationwide community of Christian domination.
Hitler and Nazis were extremely hostile to LGBTQ people, sending many of them to concentration camps for extermination. Nazis, like most conservatives around the world, are homophobic, transphobic, and anti-feminist. This holds true globally, across all cultures. The more conservative, the more homophobic and anti-feminist the culture. For example, Afghanistan.
Hitler and the Nazis sent other minority groups to the gas chambers too. Minorities were treated as weak, inferior, and unworthy of existence.
Right-wingers today move to 3rd world countries, saying it’s better because these places are less feminist and LGBTQ. Today’s right-wingers like Andrew Tate glorify subservient women. They also glorify control and domination over women. And hostility towards effeminate men. These are all right-wing values.

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Quotes from Hitler:

“The problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.” (Mein Kampf)

“The whole of Judaism is a sworn enemy of National Socialism. The Jew is the incarnation of Marxism, of Bolshevic revolution, of universal subversion.” (Speech, 1933)

“The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of numbers and their dead weight.” (Mein Kampf)

“The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.” (Mein Kampf)

“The invention of democracy is a crying example of this sort of mind virus, for has anything more mischievous ever been devised than concocting a system wherein a numerical majority of incompetents can outvote a minority of the capable?”

“We must eliminate homosexuals root and branch… We can’t permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated.” (Speech 1934)

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If a conservative ever tells you that Hitler and Nazism was left-wing, you should call them out on their bullshit by using the facts above.

Dennis Prager is one of the top propagandists of our era. Shamelessly defecating in the epistemic ecosystem by the metric ton.

Prager started a channel called PragerU Kids, which makes fun right-wing propaganda videos for children. A pipeline for teaching kids that Hitler was left-wing. Millions of kids will grow up thinking that Hitler was left-wing. Thanks Dennis.

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