Nazi
Although Nazism was not 'socialist' in the Marxist sense, the regime rejected classical laissez-faire capitalism in favor of a highly dirigiste (state-directed) approach. Officially, private businesses remained in private hands, but they were expected to serve the interests of the state ('the national community' or Volksgemeinschaft). While the state deeply intervened, it did not abolish private property or capitalism in principle; rather, it subordinated capitalism to Nazi goals.
What it believes
The nation is a racial organism locked in existential struggle: the state exists to purify it, expand its living space, and direct capital — left formally private but commanded politically — toward rearmament and conquest.
The appeal
To a humiliated, broke, and frightened country it sold restoration: jobs through rearmament, pride through spectacle, and an enemy to blame. The appeal was real enough to win pluralities — which is precisely the warning.
Where it breaks
It is the century's clearest moral catastrophe: industrial genocide, a war of annihilation, and national destruction inside twelve years. Racial struggle as first principle doesn't merely permit atrocity — it requires it.
Among its neighbours
The Autocratic Theocrat beside it shows the same absolutism with God where race stands here. The Francoist to its market side wanted the order and the church without the world war — reaction rather than revolution. Nothing below this row is adjacent by accident: every cell one step down trades some terror for some institution.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Nazi base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Nazi.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Nazi into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Nazi
- Progressive Nazi
- Reformist Nazi
- Heterodox Nazi
- Nazi
- Rooted Nazi
- Traditional Nazi
- Reactionary Nazi
- Restorationist Nazi