Hitler was not a socialist!

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Hitler was not a socialist!

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Oh dear me...

So there is a man named Dinesh D'Souza, who is an American political commentator and a right-wing conservative. Yesterday, he tweeted a tweet which said the following:

"We're socialists...enemies of today's capitalist system of exploitation & we're determined to destroy it"--Bernie, 2017? No, Hitler, 1927

Anyway, two people rightly pointed out that this quote was not said by Hitler at all, but by Gregor Strasser, who would later be purged by Hitler in the infamous Night of the Long Knives.

You can read the whole thing for yourselves here, if you wish: https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/896132272037838848

Here are their following discussions:

Jacob C. Oakley (@LordJCOakley): Actually the quote is from Strasser... but we can't expect you to actually research these things...
Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza): Actually it's not. My source is historian John Toland. Yours?
Jacob C. Oakley (@LordJCOakley): The 1926 Pamphlet "Thoughts About the Tasks of the Future" by Gregor Strasser.
*cricket noises*
Jacob C. Oakley (@LordJCOakley): @DineshDSouza Are you going to provide a primary source to counter mine?
DemocraticSocialist0 (@MReco12): Well done, I created this in 2014- was sick of the lies.
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And what was happened when D'Souza saw this?
https://youtu.be/1kCVtPhFQNU?t=2m10s

Jeremy W K (@jkulm): Strasser said it not Hitler https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregor_Strasser
Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza): My source is historian John Toland. Yours is Wikiquote? #ScholarshipForAmateurs

Excuse me, Mr. D'Souza! Did you ever consider looking at the source for the Wikiquote, again, the same 1926 pamphlet Oakley referred to?

I also find it humourous that Jeremy W K was in fact, a capitalist, as proven by their profile picture which depicts a Friedrich Hayek quote: "If Socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be Socialists."

The difference between this capitalist and a capitalist like Mr. D'Souza is that the former has the honesty to tell the truth and to correct lies, even if they are said by those proponents of their own ideology.

Hitler was not a socialist. Yes, his party was called National Socialists. Wow. If I call myself a unicorn, am I a unicorn?

Under Hitler Germany, the means of production were under the hands of private capitalists. Yes, businesses were nationalized. Were they nationalized for the benefit of workers? No! They were nationalized for the convenience of the Nazi government having control of everything.

Socialism is exclusively defined by workers having ownership of the means of production. Capitalism is exclusively defined as the means of production put under private ownership as well. You can try to change the definitions all you like.

If you want the definition of Socialism to be "Socialism is the government doing stuff, and the more stuff it does, the more socialist it is" then fine, Hitler was a socialist under your stupid definition. But in the correct definition, no, he was a capitalist.

Dinesh D'Souza is a liar and a cad, and does not have the humility to admit that he is wrong.

I urge you all to tweet at him in this message: @DineshDSouza Admit that Hitler did not say "We are socialists" and that it was Gregor Strasser, otherwise you will be rightly dismissed.
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Re: Hitler was not a socialist!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detwvLECrKw&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=p9TGVPTJzA4ITXuV-6

Here, my favourite YouTuber, DemocraticSocialist01, intellectually destroys Dinesh D'Souza and his ridiculous claims of the Nazis being socialists.
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Another great video of his about Hitler and socialism, this time debunking Stephen Crowder, another right-wing loon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY98EypmH7k
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Re: Hitler was not a socialist!

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Another great video by DemocraticSocialist01 that goes into detail on this fake Hitler quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Serw6uzKt2Y
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