lmao@this guy, who thinks he knows history.
I <3 BUTTERFLYS said:
Really? Is that why Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers party?
Were the Nazi's facsists or not?
The term Nazi is a short form of the German word (NA)tionalso(ZI)alist, in other words
National Socialist). You, obviously dont know the difference between a socialist and a nationla socialist. Let me explain it to you:
National Socialism is a political ideology promoting Germanic racial aspirations and a strong and centrally governed state. The term is most often used in connection with the
dictatorship of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich"). This ideology was held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its "Führer" Adolf Hitler. Adherents of Nazism held that the German nation and the Aryan race were superior to other races.
Socialism is an ideology with the core belief that a society should exist in which
popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production. In Marxist theory, it also refers to the society that would succeed capitalism, and in some cases develop further into communism. Marxism and communism are both very specific branches of socialism.
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/
I'll let the point go since you just gave me the example of the soviet union being a socialist state. So I'll rephrase my question: Police in the USSR circa 1965 were entirely more fair than those in U.S. society now?
No, the police in the USSR were equally, if not more oppressive than that of current US. I believe the dictatorship that existed in the Soviet Union were perversions of what socialism is really about. Socialism means the people have the power, not a ruling class like what existed in the USSR. The USSR was never truly communist. If you want to learn why and how these perversions occured in Russia, I suggest you read
The Revolution Betrayed By Leon Trotsky and
Russia: How the Bureaucracy Seized Power By George Collins