I mean, that's not even a neo-nazi talking point, it has existed since the actual Nazis themselves were still around.
I dated someone raised by former french military types who left Algeria after independence ( :gui-better: ), to go live in the heart of the FN-voting bloc of fascists in the countryside ( double :gui-better: ), and though she was seen as the rabble-rousing leftist of her entire family and was open to dating me, a non-white non-francophone and open antifascist, she still thought Nazi were socialists because that's how she was raised.
Fascism couldn't be seen as a bad thing, because she lived in the fascist heartland of the country.
A lot of vintage propaganda has proven very effective despite the decades which have come since.
There was no confusion about fascism being a far right ideology during its rise and for quite a while after WW2. Yeah the Nazis called themselves National Socialists but they made it very clear that their conception of “socialism” was very different from Marx’s and they called themselves right wing, everybody then all across the political spectrum knew that the Nazis were far right.
“There are only two possibilities in Germany; do not imagine that the people will forever go with the middle party, the party of compromises; one day it will turn to those who have most consistently foretold the coming ruin and have sought to dissociate themselves from it. And that party is either the Left: and then God help us! for it will lead us to complete destruction - to Bolshevism, or else it is a party of the Right which at the last, when the people is in utter despair, when it has lost all its spirit and has no longer any faith in anything, is determined for its part ruthlessly to seize the reins of power - that is the beginning of resistance of which I spoke a few minutes ago. Here, too, there can be no compromise - there are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew.”
I mean, that's not even a neo-nazi talking point, it has existed since the actual Nazis themselves were still around.
I dated someone raised by former french military types who left Algeria after independence ( :gui-better: ), to go live in the heart of the FN-voting bloc of fascists in the countryside ( double :gui-better: ), and though she was seen as the rabble-rousing leftist of her entire family and was open to dating me, a non-white non-francophone and open antifascist, she still thought Nazi were socialists because that's how she was raised.
Fascism couldn't be seen as a bad thing, because she lived in the fascist heartland of the country.
A lot of vintage propaganda has proven very effective despite the decades which have come since.
There was no confusion about fascism being a far right ideology during its rise and for quite a while after WW2. Yeah the Nazis called themselves National Socialists but they made it very clear that their conception of “socialism” was very different from Marx’s and they called themselves right wing, everybody then all across the political spectrum knew that the Nazis were far right.
Can you give an example of the Nazis calling themselves right wing?
“There are only two possibilities in Germany; do not imagine that the people will forever go with the middle party, the party of compromises; one day it will turn to those who have most consistently foretold the coming ruin and have sought to dissociate themselves from it. And that party is either the Left: and then God help us! for it will lead us to complete destruction - to Bolshevism, or else it is a party of the Right which at the last, when the people is in utter despair, when it has lost all its spirit and has no longer any faith in anything, is determined for its part ruthlessly to seize the reins of power - that is the beginning of resistance of which I spoke a few minutes ago. Here, too, there can be no compromise - there are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew.”
-Adolf Hitler Munich - Speech of April 12, 1922
Kinda goes off the rails a bit at the end but wow that opening salvo is weirdly prescient.