[quote="Cpt. Zapotoski":fd88e][quote=Madmartagen]Yes they were. The Nazi party, or NSDAP, stands for the National Socialist German Workers Party. They are both socialists and fascists.[/quote:fd88e]

Aye.

Kind of funny how the Germans called themselves "Socialists" yet Hitler HATED the Russians... "socialism" is a Russian theory.[/quote:fd88e]

Socialism is a German-French theory actually, Karl Marx was a kraut and I think Engels lived in France.

I understand that to have "true" socialism you need to have the means of production be owned by the government (suposedly in the interest of the people). I understood from reading WWII books that Germany still had privately owned companies before and during WWII, so they were not really socialists. So even with progressive taxes we are not "spiralling into socialism"