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Originally posted by kstar
Actually, the Nazis were at the far right of Germany's political spectrum.
Though, most political scientists now, don't use the linear model, they prefer a circle. If you go to far to the left or right, you are basically at the same place. For instance, the Chinese Totalitarian "Communist" Regime is basically equivalent to the Totalitarian Nazi Regime.
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"Nazism was the ideology held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its "Führer", Adolf Hitler. The word Nazism is most often used in connection with the dictatorship of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich"), and it is derived from the term National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, often abbreviated NS). "
If one were to draw a ven diagram, the intersection between socialism and fascism is rather large. State control of businesses is really not a conservative value, neither is the large expansion of government and its powers. It's not quite liberal and not quite conservative. Plus the definitions of liberal and conservative vary.
-Rudey