The pillars of Hitler’s strength came from his alliances with the Military and Industrial establishment.
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You are essentially viewing Hitler as being “right wing” rather than as what Goldberg describes as the “right wing of the far left.”
Let me hit you with another quote, from Nazi ideologist Gregor Strasser:
“We are socialists. We are enemies, deadly enemies, of today’s capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money, instead of their responsibility and their performance, and we are determined to destroy this system whatever happens!” (Roger Griffen, ed., Fascism, 1995, p. 123).
The Nazi Platform:
Point 12: ... we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
Point 13: We demand the nationalization of all asociated industries
Point 14: We demand a division of profits of heavy industries
Point 15: We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
Does this sound like the system the industrialists wanted? Were the capitalists in all actually profound anti-capitalists? Did they really want to have their assets nationalized? Did they want their profits seized?
It’s kind of like Obama. Did all the major corporations support him and put their weight behind him, or did they simply begin to fall in line after he won?
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The Party was socialist as founded by Drexler and envisioned by Strasser. But the nascent party of Drexler was tiny (40 people or so). Despite the intentions of the founders and early members, Hitler seized power (Strasser was killed on his orders) and reformulated the Party in his own image.
There is no doubt that the original German Workers Party, the National Socialist German Workers Party or the Nazi Party were socialist, but its origins are irrelevant once Hitler seized control of it.