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(5,955 posts)Although, admittedly, that network has nothing to do with journalism.
But I encounter morons every day on the internet who claim Nazi Germany was an example of a 'socialist' country because it had the word socialist in the party name. However, if you combine extreme nationalism with racism and xenophobia, and combine it with religion and militarism, you've got classic Fascism, not Socialism.
And, from the other side, if you combine all those things with state-control of the economy, you've got Communism.
The one thing both Fascists/Nazis and Communists have always had in common is a visceral hatred for liberal, social democrats. Liberal intellectuals who support democratic socialism (or even Fabian socialism) are usually the first ones they come after, because they're not perceived to be 'patriotic' enough.
Those people are usually surprised when I point them to Mao's essay on fighting against 'liberalism.'