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What we don’t talk about is National Socialism i.e., Nazism, because of its horrific inhumanity. Why even think about its association with a benign idea? Let’s, however, talk about it. The Nazis concentrated all power in the government but permitted corporations to operate in the interests of the government. Nazi Germany was a welfare state for the Aryan race, the non- Aryans having effectively been purged. In the Soviet Union, the purging that took place targeted class (the kulaks) and political dissidents. Anti-Semitism also played a role in the personal behavior of the leaders, notably Stalin, but it was gratuitous and cultural, not built into the Marxist ideology, though present in Marx himself, Unlike Stalinism which was nationalist in its socialism, though internationalist in its ideology, Nazism was internationalist in its ambition to conquer the world, while calling its socialism national.
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Goodheart, E. What we Talk and Don’t Talk About when we Talk About Socialism. Soc 56, 463–465 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-019-00400-6
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