Nazism, Socialism and the Falsification of History

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ideologies seek legitimacy by rewriting all of history in the desired paradigm with the "good guys" on their side and the "bad guys" on the other guys. Therefore Hitler gets turned into a socialist because of his statism and because he is bad guy in history.

The reduction of history in this fashion is yet one more example of how the right has taken on various Marxist approaches, having already dwelt in other threads on the desire for ideological purification.

As someone who started off with history and then slowly gravitated towards politics, I find this alarming and problematic since it distorts the actions and records of people, as well as rip them out of their contexts and places them on one entirely artificially contrived with modern sensibilities.