With all this Nazi talk in recent days, I thought it might be useful to pull out the 1932 political platform for the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany. While some folks go full turbo on the Aryan Nation business....to be a true Nazi....you also need to be socialist. So, this is the platform statement, in English, in modern-day language (the way we'd grasp things today):
1. Undertaking a government requirement to establish all citizens the right to adequate employment opportunities and an adequate living standard. Hint, this means the $15 an hour wage, and the government supervising your employment opportunities in some fashion.
2. The needs of the overall community should outweigh the needs of the individual. Hint, your personal needs don't matter.
3. The commercial running of the nation should be regulated in such a way, that profits of the rich or corporate nature.....should be shared and distributed to the citizens....not by the wealthy or elite. Hint, you can only make X-amount of money, and the rest will be redistributed.
4. The welfare of the senior citizens should be attended to by the government, who will ensure a provision exists for their "protection". Hint, part of the redistribution of wealth will go toward senior citizens....one way or another.
5. The nation will ensure regulations exist to control state and federal property to the degree required, which will be determined by the highest authority of the government. If necessary, confiscation of excess property or wealth will be exercised, for the greater good of the community. Hint, they will seize property and wealth, as required.
6. Interest rates and mortgage situations will be regulated by the government to ensure the lowest possible financial requirement upon the citizens. Hint, the banks won't set rates....the government will.
7. A national farming bill/law will be pushed to help improve and comfort the rural farming environment and ensure national food requirements are met, with good cheap prices for everyone in the market. Hint, the government will set prices and farming profits.
8. Rent control and regulation will be exercised as necessary, to prevent profits. Hint, rent will be a government run operation....you the owner, will not determine how much you can charge.
9. Regulation will be created to prevent speculation of land and property.
10. The federal government will work to ensure the culture of all ethnic groups of society is respected and honored.
11. The science of citizenship will be developed and exercised as appropriately viewed by the community, state and federal government. This science will be developed into common teaching requirements and utilized for lesson plans as necessary.
12. Children with skill and capability, no matter what class of their parents, shall be educated at the cost of the government, no matter where they live or what the eventual higher education will cost. In essence, free college for all.
13. It will be the absolute priority of the nation to help raise the standards of national health by providing adequate hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses, and care.
14. It will be the national cause to help stop and hinder unnecessary juvenile labor.
15. It will be a national priority to help increase physical fitness and dietary requirements of the public, to help make society at large better and healthier. Regulation will be utilized as much as necessary.
16. The overall goal of the nation.....will be the common good....before the individual good. The nation will stand against materialistic spirits which create unfair wealth and class divisions.
So, if you were hyped up to use the brand-name Nazi....and you just weren't that much into socialism or the entanglements.....then you've picked the wrong core group.
Course, there are some other folks who'd like these political platforms, who might not be considered alt-right.
Just something to think about. Note, all of these come from 1932 text of the political platform used for the party in that year's election in Germany.
