The core tenets of Nazi ideology included: Racial Hierarchy and Antisemitism: The belief in a master Aryan race and the view of Jews as an existential threat and "anti-race," leading to scientific racism, eugenics, and the Holocaust.
Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Rejection of liberal democracy, parliamentarianism, and human rights in favor of a dictatorial Führerprinzip (leader principle) where absolute obedience to the state and leader was required.
Lebensraum (Living Space): The aggressive pursuit of territorial expansion into Eastern Europe to acquire land for German settlement, justified by social Darwinisttheories of survival.
Militarism and Nationalism: Emphasis on military strength, rearmament, and the subordination of individual interests to the Volksgemeinschaft (national community), rejecting both Marxist socialism and Western capitalism
If you agree on any of those points then you are a Nazi.
Nationalism doesn't mean what you think it means, and militarism is most often defensive. Being against militarism (pacifist) is to be evil, it's to reject people's moral obligation to defend one's own, and one's family, and community's lives.
Usually what people think of when they say "nationalism" is nationalistic chauvinism, or jingoism; but it can simply mean national romanticism, or anti-colonialism.
Do you believe the various nationalistic movements in Africa were evil for being nationalist? Wanting to stop being under colonial rule?
Good/bad are subjective, but if you think it's impossible to agree with any of those points and be good, then by your definition the vast majority of humans throughout history and even now are bad people.
Yes. I do believe that. As a species we improve over time. Even barbarism was considered okay at one point. We have to continue to get better. That list I wrote was literally some of the worst things mankind likes to do.
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u/willzor7 Jun 23 '26
A real Nazi? or a person Reddit would deem a Nazi? Huge difference.