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We should call the Nazis what they really were — socialists.

JL;DR SUMMARY Nick Buckley argues that the Nazi Party, formally known as the National Socialist German Workers Party, should indeed be considered socialist due to their economic policies and ideological claims by leaders like Adolf Hitler. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryAdolf HitlerNazisFascismNationalismPolitical IdeologySocialismCommunismNational SocialismStatism

Places mentioned

United Kingdom
"Followers of a Welshman, Robert Owen, began calling themselves socialists in 1841."
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
"Northern Ireland has a history of Protestants and Catholics murdering each other; both groups claim they are Christian."
Israel
"It should be viewed rather as statism versus individual liberty."

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