Re: Socialism and National Socialism [was: Swastika usage ... Dr. Rex Curry]
- From: "Don Phillipson" <d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:26:09 -0400
"Vinny Burgoo" <hlunnh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In alt.usage.english, Stop the Pledge of Allegiance wrote:name
Many people overuse the word "Nazi" because they do not know the actual
of the group: the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP). Other
It's a bit simpler than that. As a nationalist party with global
pretensions,
this outfit functioned solely in the German language, thus abbreviated its
name
NSDAP = (German for) National Socialist German Workers Party. (No
abbreviation NSGWP was ever used anywhere.)
Some Nazis thought of themselves as socialists in the 1920s . . .
Goebbels also considered himself a socialist for a while.
It's a bit simpler than that. After revolutions in Russia, Hungary,
Germany etc. all revolutionaries in the early 1920s called
themselves Socialists (except the Stahlhelm and other private
armies, overtly counter-revolutionary thus anti-socialist.) You
saw the same sort of thing briefly after the Second World War,
when it mattered just as little in the long run. Orwell wrote
clearly on the theme of nomenclature.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
.
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