My dedicated reader Homer pointed out to my other dedicated reader Jason in comments recently an anonymous economics blogger pseudoerasmus who had some lengthy posts a couple of years back about how the Nazis are not appropriately, retrospectively, classified as Leftists.
I've read the posts now - they are pretty good.
First one is here. Follow up one is here.
The thing is, this "Nazis were really Leftists" argument was never tried until US conservative political thought started going off the rails over the last couple of decades and turned into the basket case it is now. That alone should cause hesitation.
you can thank me for your education.
ReplyDeleteyou can see a lot of his data comes from Wages of Destruction by Adam Tozze which Soony claims to have read but somehow forgot all his major arguments.