Trying to add a view that National Socialism was, er, the only real socialism ever implemented seemed rather foolish, and out of place there.
The article needs more references, but I can see it is hard to do this in the overview (havent yet had time to read all the subarticles).
Justinc
Thats a pretty uninsightful interpretation of what was going on. Editors have been trying to insert that claim that socialism opposes racism:
"Socialism rejects the [[racist]] theories and [[totalitarianism]] of the Nazis, while Nazism rejected the policies of [[internationalism]], [[egalitarianism]], [[class struggle]], and common ownership of the [[means of production]] pursued by many socialists.<ref>[[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], Leon. ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-ger/330610.htm What is National Socialism?]'' June 10 1933</ref>"
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Socialism&diff=46506992&ol...
That is a highly misleading "citation" there. Trotsky doesn't define Socialism any more than Hitler, Mao or Marx does. They all are persons who claimed to be socialists, with wildly divergent views. There is no consensus amongst socialists on these issues, and it is false to claim their is one.
SS
On 4/14/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 13 Apr 2006, at 23:25, Fred Bauder wrote:
Yes, and when I got to looking at it, some of it was still the old National Socialism is socialism stuff.
Yes that seemed to be the main issue when I looked.
I looked over the Socialism article and it didnt seem too bad, especially as it is an overview article that mainly is referencing other articles, always a hard thing to write well. Trying to add a view that National Socialism was, er, the only real socialism ever implemented seemed rather foolish, and out of place there.
The article needs more references, but I can see it is hard to do this in the overview (havent yet had time to read all the subarticles).
Justinc
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