[QUOTE="coolbeans90"][QUOTE="PC_gamer4life"] Your last comment is pretty much my point. We don't redefine the left and right because BossPerson feels like it. The purest definition of the paradigm is differentiating between the opposing sides' views of the appropriate size and scope of government, therefore, there's no way Nazism/fascism can be a right-wing ideology. Unfortunately, the left has been extremely successful in perpetuating this false narrative, and it's seeped into the minds of countless millions (like BossPerson).PC_gamer4life
What do you mean by "purest," precisely? There isn't a concretely established meaning to the paradigm in U.S. political circles or colloquialisms. Under the basis of government size, you would be correct in categorizing the Nazis on the same side of the spectrum as the U.S.S.R., but there were differences to an extent on things like having a market economy (yes, I know you couldn't rightly call Nazi Germany a free market, but it wasn't entirely socialist in practice, either). The distinction between capitalist and socialist economies has long been used as fundamental factor in distinguishing "left wing" from "right wing," perhaps to a greater extent than government size. WWII and the Cold War surely had a role in this, but using said factor WRT the paradigm is commonplace, and it isn't remotely redefining the paradigm because bossperson feels like it.
Nazism is still a command economy with irrelevant differences. In practise, it makes no difference whether property is directly owned by the state of whether it is privately owned and subject to massive state control (i.e. the "private" economic fiefdoms in Nazi Germany). They're both command economies, and both leftist by definition. Again, this is antithetical to the right wing of the political spectrum. That's just the economic sphere of society. If you want to talk about the social sphere, we can arguably say we're now dealing with the traditional y-axis of politics, but communism, fascism, and Nazism are all authoritarian in this sense (which is more aligned with the contemporary left in a pop-culture sense). It definitely leaned towards command economy, and the distinction in practice, while not irrelevant, has been vastly exaggerated. Independent of this relatively minor difference, you are correct in your assertion that it would similarly be categorized with the Soviets with respect to size, and, for the most part, on economics as well. That said, the distinction was of considerably greater concern elsewhere in history shortly afterwards, namely the Cold War. I made no reference to the social sphere, but I'd put them on essentially identical grounds with that as well, perhaps more so.
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