As a matter of fact the NSDAP’s platform was in many ways socialist and it’s notable that more than a few Nazis were former socialists and communists. The “beefsteak Nazi” — brown on the outside, red on the inside — was a byword. Nor is this surprising, for socialism is inherently authoritarian. One may talk of social democracy, but it’s a form of democracy that goes in one direction only: toward full socialism. Thus socialism and political pluralism are fundamentally incompatible. Socialism is a Theory of Everything. This explains why it either devolves into the welfare state or evolves into totalitarianism. If socialism remains true to itself, it can only be fascism’s mirror image.
The authoritarian tendencies of progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren only bear out the validity of this analysis.
