Far right individuals are socialists. The Nazi party at the beginning was a socialist party. The fascist party was a socialist party.
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Yeah, the full name is actually Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) or "National Socialistic German Workers' Party.
Nazi is just the nickname for "national socialist", as opposed to the "international socialists", like the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, that went up against them in the national election and was controlled by Stalin.
Left and right, socialism, capitalism. These words are ALL not well defined. They can be used to explain moral concepts or political strategies. But then it still will be vague. Most times these words are just used for finger pointing/ finding an enemy.
If you want a real discussion, just don’t use this words and explain your though with words that are not charged with emotions.
And discussing the definition of these terms is just a waste of time.
Naming things increases information of the words spoken, even if the name is not ideal or the defined realm is not absolute. This increases our ability to think and have complex ideas.
Source: I am German.
Nazis named themselves socialists and political right oriented, so that is a fact for sure.
And I agree often we have to find terms we can use as a reference to describe complex ideas.
Anyhow these terms are often used in a lot of different situations and often pushed into a new framing for „marketing“ without being specific.
That’s why these terms alone are imo not „ideal“ for describing things. You always need to add information or references to explain what you really mean.
E.G. terms like „socialism is is the opposite of right“ (what is often the current political situation) and „extreme right is socialism“ (what was the situation for political parties in the „Deutsche Reich“) are both wrong in general, but can be useful if you add the specific context.
Language is an inter-subjective tool for communication tool that perpetuates itself thatbks to people that use it. Redefining the words every time you use them is a waste of time, unless you're doing some academics work (which is not our case I suppose). It's like if you were to redefine every postulate, axiom and theorem of mathematics every time you need to apply derivatives...you can do that, but good luck. It's a tradeoff between practicality and transmission of a message: in this context the "right" and "left" words communicate a broader gist, that's the important thing imo.
Language is evolving. Not I am changing the definition, society does.
If you want to avoid misunderstanding, it is important to add precise references (Like in physics when we say „according to xy“) or explain the context, when using vague terms like left or right. There is no precise overall definition for them.