Hitler,Stalin And Mao.

[ynnafymmi]

Not really a question,just an observation.Tomorrow would be old Schicklegrubers birthday.Along with Uncle Joe and "great leap forward"Mao all were nationalists and socialists.Perhaps there is a case for capitalism after all.

[Old_Geezer]

There's also a case for finding something better.

All hail the Star Trek Federation.

[TheChair]

Hitler was not a socialist.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/amp/

[JimF]

All dogs have four legs.
My cat has four legs.
My cat is a dog.

[johnny.5]

my dog was born in a stable
therefore he must be a horse

[sevenOP]

What do you know about the "great leap forward" ynnafymmi ?

[ynnafymmi]

It involved the mass starvation of millions of working class people in the name of socialism and nationalism,perhaps?

[royfromaus]

How have you lumped Moa in with those two?

on balance, Mao did more good than harm

[woofgang]

I think there is a definite case for strong democracy.

[woofgang]

Roy...this post popped up....if the book is true what was on the other side of the balance? https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Books-and-Authors/Question818341.html

[ynnafymmi]

Huh,Roy.Some would say Mao murdered more people than Hitler and Stalin combined.This anus made even PolPot and the IRA look people friendly.For Funks Sake.

[ichkeria]

Yes whatever you think of the question, the idea that Mao “did more good than harm” is an interesting one.

[ynnafymmi]

"interesting" doesnt even cover it,Ich.Hopefully he was being sarcastic.

[ToraToraTora]

"The Nazis were left-wing socialists. Yes, the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, otherwise known as the Nazi Party, was indeed socialist and it had a lot in common with the modern left. Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist “exploitation” by capitalists , particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Their programs called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion, and they denounced Christians as right-wing fanatics. Yet a popular myth persists that the Nazis themselves were right-wing extremists. This insidious lie biases the entire political landscape today." - if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.......

[ToraToraTora]

the abacus is a big fan of Mao:

[ynnafymmi]

Yes,interesting Tora.It seems right-wing socialists such as the IRA and Hitler seem to be a lot less murderous than the left-wing socialists,and that is saying something.

[jno]

Mao and Stalin both created industrial giants out of peasant societies in half a century or so, and Stalin had to do it while losing something like 25m people during the war. Those are considerable feats whatever you think of the methods.

[sevenOP]

""The Nazis were left-wing socialists."

The inculcator reiterates. Got to hammer the narrative home, eh 3T.

You missed an oppurtunity here -----

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question1695829.html

[Deskdiary]

If you’d‘ve put a question mark after the OP I’d’ve said Diddly’s and Gulliver’s heroes.

[ynnafymmi]

You make Stalins purges and Maos engineered mass famine sound like a nice day out,jno.Socialists are supposed to be on the workers side,not murder them in their millions.Jesus wept.

[sevenOP]

"right-wing socialists"

Would they be classed as un-American or anti-American ?