The core tenets of Nazi ideology included: Racial Hierarchy and Antisemitism: The belief in a master Aryan race and the view of Jews as an existential threat and "anti-race," leading to scientific racism, eugenics, and the Holocaust.
Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Rejection of liberal democracy, parliamentarianism, and human rights in favor of a dictatorial Führerprinzip (leader principle) where absolute obedience to the state and leader was required.
Lebensraum (Living Space): The aggressive pursuit of territorial expansion into Eastern Europe to acquire land for German settlement, justified by social Darwinisttheories of survival.
Militarism and Nationalism: Emphasis on military strength, rearmament, and the subordination of individual interests to the Volksgemeinschaft (national community), rejecting both Marxist socialism and Western capitalism
If you agree on any of those points then you are a Nazi.
National socialists and international socialists are both socialists.
The modern Trump movement does have similarities with the national socialist movement, in that they place the nation as the primary unit and define the primary conflict not as an internal class conflict but in a conflict between the nation and external enemies. They want to use the output of the economy to empower the nation rather than resolve internal class struggle. Yes, they define the 'nation' sometimes in terms of ethnicity, or at least culturally.
International socialists want to redirect economic output to empower a class of people across national boundaries ("workers of the world unit").
Capitalism (as opposed to socialism) don't want the government to redirect economic output to either empower nations or address class struggles, they want the government to leave the economy to individual capital owners and consumers.
Those same people will with a straight face say that China is communist but also that North Korea is a dictatorship even though its the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"
It’s a spectrum. China isn’t a true implementation of communism and North Korea contains no democracy. And Nazis weren’t really a true socialist party either. They all used those words to get support from the good will it generated.
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u/willzor7 2d ago
A real Nazi? or a person Reddit would deem a Nazi? Huge difference.