Talk:Nazi Party

Nazism is a right-wing ideology.

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"Nazi Party" is the English-language common name for the National Socialist German Workers Party.

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Q: Why is the Nazi Party labeled a far-right party? They called themselves socialists, so should they be left-wing?

A: Almost all historical and present-day academic literature places the Nazi Party on the far-right of the traditional left-right spectrum, which in turn is the most common short-form classification used in political science. The Nazis themselves attacked both left-wing and traditional right-wing politicians and movements in Germany as being traitors to Germany. While the Nazi regime's economic policies are very different from those of present-day right-wing parties that adhere to classical liberal or neoliberal positions (which advocate, e.g., a highly deregulated, privatized economic environment), Nazi economic policy was typical of the early to mid twentieth century far-right, and indeed most political currents of the time, in that it embraced interventionist economics. The Nazi Party absorbed the far-right reactionary monarchist and nationalist German National People's Party into its membership in 1933. The Nazi Party also held good relations with openly right-wing political movements in Europe, such as the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right, whose leader Gil-Robles was a guest at the 1933 Nazi Party Nuremberg rally and sought to model his movement upon the Nazi Party.

Q: If socialism is mainly left-wing and they called themselves socialists in their name, why is this being ignored?

A: Historically several right-wing figures used the term "socialism" to mean something very different from what would be understood by traditional left-wing socialism, referring simply to the broader concept of collectivism and anti-individualism. The prominent French reactionary monarchist Charles Maurras famously said "a socialism liberated from the democratic and cosmopolitan element fits nationalism well as a well made glove fits a beautiful hand". Maurras' views influenced fascism. Oswald Spengler's ideal of "Prussian Socialism" directly influenced Nazism, and Spengler promoted it as a member of the far-right Conservative Revolutionary movement.

Q: Were the Nazis actually a capitalist movement?

A: The answer depends on the context and definition of capitalism. Ideologically, Hitler in private was just as opposed to the ethos of capitalism as he was in public as a politician; he regarded the capitalist ethos as being self-centred individualism that was incompatible with nationalism. Furthermore, in both public and private Hitler regarded capitalism as being created by the Jews for their own interests. The Nazis in public and in private held contempt for bourgeois culture in liberal capitalist societies - as they associated such bourgeois culture with a cosmopolitan, liberal, and decadent lifestyle that was incompatible with the Nazis' ideal of a nationalist martial ethic of disciplined soldiers who were collectively committed to the Fatherland above any individual interest. So ideologically, Nazism held strong antipathy to capitalism. However at the same time Hitler and the Nazis endorsed private property and private enterprise and did not challenge the market economy, which was important to their accrual of power because it avoided antagonizing industrialists and aristocrats. The Nazis themselves claimed that "true socialism" did not involve the Marxian opposition to private property. But if capitalism is defined in a minimum way as involving the support of the existence of private property, private enterprise and a market economy, then from that minimum definition, the Nazis could be considered as endorsing a capitalist economy.

Q: The proper English name for the Nazi Party is the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). "Nazi" is a slang term, so why does the article not use the proper name?

A: Because English Wikipedia uses the common name for things, and the common name for the NSDAP in English is the "Nazi Party".

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The problem with locking the page is the concomitant loss of incidental editing.

I frequently edit pages, as I peruse them, to correct for idiom (for foreign language sourced articles, like this one) and other grammatical ambiguities and errata. (I do not have the resources available to create my own account at this time.)

For instance, the phraseology of the first section would be better served if the conjunction either was moved to modify the second element of the list (inferiority) rather than where it is, seemingly erroneously modifying the three items listed, thus the sentence ending: "excluding those deemed to be either political dissidents, physically or intellectually inferior, or of a foreign race (Fremdvölkische)." should be recast to say: "excluding those deemed to be political dissidents, either physically or intellectually inferior, or of a foreign race (Fremdvölkische)." See? Much better. However, now I have spent an order of magnitude more effort to make a simple notification for someone else to read and act on this very simple edit. (I wonder how many people will read this and not bother before someone decides to act? I wonder who manages that editing process. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) 118.210.101.232 (talk) 05:40, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The page is inaccurate. The Nazi party was not far right. It was far left. I realize the importance of everyone wanting to distance themselves as far away from Nazis as possible but it is critical to get history correct. The Nazi party was a socialist party. Left wing not right. Drofhist (talk) 14:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is not correct. Please see the FAQ and other banners at the top of this page. — Czello ^(music) 14:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Nazi Party was considered “far-right” pursuant to the reliable sources cited. And that’s what we have to go by. Otherwise, it is considered original research. As for only allowing registered editors, it’s for good reason. To protect the article from rampant vandalism, which is common with Nazi related articles. Kierzek (talk) 15:43, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Paul Wegener links to the wrong person. This is the correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wegener_(Gauleiter) Soder86 (talk) 17:51, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Jamedeus (talk) 18:08, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The emblem is wrong, it should be this one https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/NSDAP-Logo.svg/640px-NSDAP-Logo.svg.png Carulaa (talk) 15:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit extended-protected}} template. PianoDan (talk) 18:25, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add a link

The article mentions the article "Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina" by name. As an article by this name now exists, it would make sense to link it.

The article is protected so I can't do it. Editor8778 (talk) 12:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Make the "succeeded by" be None (similar to the DNVP page) ManU9827 (talk) 21:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]