As much as I love to point out that Hitler rose to power thanks to socialists the truth is that he took advantage of the party much like our public officials do all the time.
It is actually a pretty powerful combination, you get the "country first" patriotic nationalists that are all about their country in a "we're number one" type of mentality, and you combine it with the socialists who cater to the huge masses of poor people promising them free money and you have a pretty powerful combination.
Imagine a party in the US of down home US patriots, "that's my flag, not a rag" "USA USA USA!" nationalists combined with the universal health care, tax the rich, safety net, union masses that want free handouts. They are easily swayed with sweet talk and promises and no amount of reason would dent their blinders. Anyone could get elected, even someone like Hitler with an ulterior motive.
National socialism is
not derived as combination of nationalism and socialism. It's something directly opposite ideology which was derived from idealized role of racial identity in state.
The main, basic ideas of national socialism are:
- idealization of own race
- unification of race with the state
- racial hygiene
- rejection of marxism
- rejection of bolshevism
- rejection of internationalism
- rejection of parliamentarism
None of these pillars of national socialist ideology matches to classic definitions of socialism. Even radical left wing of bolsheviks party weren't against parliamentarism, for example, a multilevel parliamentarism conception is one of the basic ideas of bolshevism.
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Update:
See the Hitler's speech about internationalism, marxism, bolshevism etc.
Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.
Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.
We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.
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Update 2:
But there is also an ideology, which was derived from nationalism and socialism. This ideology is called National-Bolshevism, and shouldn't be confused with National Socialism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevismhttp://robertamsterdam.com/2007/08/andrei_dmitriev_who_are_the_national-bolsheviks/Like National Socialism, there is also abbreviation term for National-Bolshevism ("Nazbol"). But unlike the National Socialists, who hates "Nazi" term, National-Bolsheviks are sometimes using "Nazbol" term to describe own political views.
Main ideas of National-Bolshevism are similar to ideas of Bolshevism ideology, but there are two differences:
- idealization of nation as the basement of state (entire nation, not nationality or race)
- rejection of Trotskyism (i.e. "world revolution" and same shit)
