@Hindsite ,
You may be forgiven your absolute ignorance of Socialism, because for one thing it's widespread and now multi-generational. But you are simply wrong, and I will explain why each point with you. first up;
Clearly, NAZI stands for National Socialism from the article.
Just like not every denomination of ''christian'' is the original genuine Church established by Christ, not every political label is truthful. Nazis weren't really Socialists, and I wrote a considerable amount explaining why they weren't, earlier.
Socialism usually winds up with a dictator, like Hitler, in the same way as Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro did with the brand of socialism spread by Hugo Chávez.
Every form of government winds up with a Dictator, period. It just depends on if they are a good man or at least competent, or wicked or incompetent. Sometimes to get things done, a leader has to become a dictator, they reason. Someday if there's a national emergency and the President has to declare martial law or something like that, you might discover that. Neither Chavez nor Maduro are or were Dictators, if they were Venezuela wouldn't have the problems that it does.
However, welfare is a socialist program run by the government, just as is social security, medicare, and medicaid in the USA.
No, it most emphatically is not. Remember what I said about Socialism being public control of the means of production in a society? Welfare is a way that the ruling wealthy Oligarchy in a society, fearful of revolution by the poorer people below them, create social programs funded by middle class taxes to make conditions somewhat better for the lowest on the ladder, at the expense of society as a whole. It's like putting a band-aid on a man with his guts hanging out in the emergency room... A quick fix that makes things worse, if anything.
No Socialist or Communist believes in welfare programs, you are absolutely incorrect and do not understand what a Socialist society looks like, or looked like. I do.
However, ''Anti-Capitalist'' was in the party manifesto. That is the same belief for socialism and communism.
No it isn't the same belief as in socialism or communism, because the Nazis were lying. Imagine that, Nazis and Fascists lying...
Like you point out, Mussolini started out as a Socialist until he decided to become a dictator with the government power socialism gave him.
Absolutely incorrect and the exact opposite of what happened. Mussolini was not getting any personal power in Italy by being a Socialist, and joined the landowners, the aristocrats, big business, the monarchy and the Vatican in Italy and thus became a powerful anti-socialist Dictator, appointed by the King of Italy to head a government in Italy to prevent Socialism or Communism. You really should have read what I wrote, it would have been nice to not have to make this effort again.
This may be the same thing that is happening with many American Democrats, who are calling for "Democratic" Socialism to tax the wealthy capitalist at a much higher rate so they can have free college, free healthcare, guaranteed minimum income for all, and other free stuff from their socialist government that will be eventually run by a dictator.
Again, that's not Socialism, taxing the wealthy. And what's wrong with ''free'' college or ''free'' healthcare? If you work, and if everyone works, you earned it, it wasn't ''free'' at all but is your due, your right, as a laboring and productive member of society, a truly free citizen.
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No, I am not too familiar with Syria's government. I thought it was ruled by a dictator. So is he a socialist dictator, like Mussolini?
Mussolini wasn't a Socialist, he was a Fascist. Baathism is very similar to Italian Fascism, as I wrote and apparently you didn't read. The Baathists make left wing and popularist sounds, but are a big business/military-industrial elite of Capitalists.
I support the people of Syria against head chopping Jihadis imported from the Oil Sheikdoms to overthrow that country, so I ''support'' the ruling Baathist government defending the sovereign national territory of Syria against them. If it was not for Russia and Assad, every Christian in Syria would be dead, exterminated by the Jihadis, for one thing.