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Leftists will tell you that the Nazis were definitely far right. I say far left, but I never had all of the facts to back that up at my fingertips. This essay by Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) makes it pretty clear. You might find these points helpful in future discussions.

Link to original post on X:

https://x.com/brivael/status/2115783076840173595?a=Wu4sR8bRQE-Yl7gYIDk&s=20

A lot of debate about my video on Hitler. I’m not backing down. I’m going to explain where I’m coming from.

For me, the zero layer of any ideology is the economy. Not the speeches, not the flags, not the uniforms. The basic question is always the same: who decides what gets produced, at what price, by whom, and who keeps the fruits of the labor?

There are only two big answers.

Capitalism: property is private, prices emerge from millions of free exchanges, each person decides what to produce, what to buy, where to invest. No one steers the whole thing. Order emerges from the bottom up.

Collectivism: a central power decides on behalf of individuals in the name of a higher interest. The class in Marx, the nation in others, the planet today. The word changes, the mechanics stay the same: the individual is subordinated to the collective, and the State decides what is “useful.”

Now, look at what Hitler did. Not what he said about himself, what he actually did.

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