Was Adolf Hitler left-wing or right-wing?
Hitler, like Marxists and Socialists, was a statist, a collectivist, and he rejected laissez-faire free market capitalism and firmly established central economic planning. He was an anti-Communist because he rejected the Marxist paradigm and method of “class war”. Instead of viewing history and progress in terms of class war, Hitler was a “Nationalist” but (unlike Mussolini’s and Peron’s Fascisim) Hitler’s “Nation” was conceived of in racial/ethnic terms. While a statist and collectivist, the nation and its resources were neither marshaled for the benefit of the elite nor for the middle class, nor for the working classes, but for the pursuit of a worldly and vaguely spiritual (if pagan or even satanic) goal of “national destiny” to which the individual was wholly subservient and expendable. What mattered was the elevation of the nation/race to godhood. This was the driving force, organizing principle, goal and central tenet of his whole “new order.” As such, it best resembles various c
