Today marks 100 years since Hitler assumed the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis, giving rise to millions of debating points accusing anyone right of centre of being a "Nazi".
We've had plenty of arguments on this forum about whether he was a socialist or not, and no arguments that he wasn't evil, so at least we an agree on something.
In this article Larry Reed makes a very persuasive case that Hitler was a socialist http://fee.org/articles/what-the-nazis-had-in-common-with-every-other-collectivist-regime-in-the-20th-century/.
"Ask yourself this: Does the following statement sound like something a socialist would say or something a free-market, capitalist advocate would espouse?