Nazis are frequently recognized as right wingers. There's something to that, the sort of hard nationalism of the Nazi 25-point program parallels the American right in many ways.
But the Nazis were explicit socialists, and there are just as many parallels between them and the American left. It's almost like the Nazis took the worst of the radical left and the radical right and merged them into something truly atrocious.
I thought it might be interesting to go through the entire 25-point program and list each one with whether it reminds me of the liberal lefties or the conservative right.
1. Right
2. Right
3. Left/Right (overpopulation concern = Left, Irregard for other nations = Right)
4. Right
5. Right
6. Right
7. Left
8. Right
9. Left
10. Left
11. Left
12. Left
13. Left
14. Left
15. Left
16. Left
17. Left/right (abolishment of land tax = Right, Regulation on speculation = Left)
18. Left/right (death penalty = Right, penalizing users and profiteers = Left)
19. ? (hard to say)
20. Left
21. Left
22. Left
23. Left/right
24. Right
25. Right
There ended up being at least as many policies that reminded me of the radical left as the radical right. Of course if a Nazi said the sky was blue he would be right, so it's possible for Nazis to be right about some things and wrong about others. But the right has at least as much warrent for calling the left a Nazi when they support the abolition of wage slavery, large scale social security, and mandatory gym class.
Nazis were the National Socialist party, and those two words say it all. They were extremely nationalist (rah rah America) and extraordinarily socialist (to each according to his need).
