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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: What is socialism?
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 11:16:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 11:16:00 1985
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>The epitome of socialism, and a good example of a nation where the 
>state-first, individual-last ideals of socialism were taken to their
>logical conclusion, is Germany under National Socialism in the '30's
>and '40's.

>--JoSH

If you believe that the National Socialists were Socialists, then you
probably also believe that the German Democratic Republic is a
Democratic Republic (at least it is German, right?).  In fact, the
adoption of the term "Socialist" by the Nazis was done in order to
cash in on the appeal the term had in the early '20s to German
industrial workers.  Goebbels spent much ink on explaining why only
the Nazis were "Socialists", uncorrupted by "Marxian" thought, and
that "Socialism" was well represented in the feudal structure of the
Holy Roman Empire. And you fell for it!!!  

					David Rubin

P.S. JoSH's critically wrong assumption is that all "state-first,
individual-last" philosophies are socialist.  Actually, there are many
varieties, some socialist, some not.  The Nazis fall in the latter
category.