Yes. You apparently are.:roll eyes: Here's a hint, socialism is *Hegelian*. Do you know what that means? What is the central tenet of fascism? I'll give you a hint, it has to do with the word "fasces".
Please explain to us again why the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany, which was democratically elected on a hard-core socialist platform, was not really socialist. And while you’re at, perhaps you can share your wisdom with us on whether Stalin was really a communist.
You are way out of place here among the generally well informed people on this website.
“You have *no* idea what any of these words mean. It’s rather pathetic really.”
I can look those words up in the dictionary as well as anyone, and in fact I did that once long ago just to kill time. I won’t waste my time again now.
The original meaning of the word “fasces” is as relevant to a discussion of Hitler as the original meaning of the word “Python” is to the popular programming language that now bears that name. They are just names that were arbitrarily applied.
You’re obsession with the original meaning of words is typical of pedants who obsess with irrelevant details and completely miss the “big picture.” According to your kind of “thinking,” the New England Patriots are certainly not a football team because the word “football” refers to a game where the ball is kicked but not carried, as everyone should know. And everyone who disagrees is just ignorant, of course.
I’m about done wasting my time with you. Go ahead and get the last word if it makes you feel better. Let’s see if you can top your earlier gems of wisdom. That’ll take some doing, but I’ll bet you’re up to the challenge.