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How should we view the South African situation today?

Virgil Jones said:
It is not just the name that makes the Nazis left wing socialists. They advocated big government socialism, the takeover of private industries. They were slightly different from their close cousins in the USSR, in that they allowed owners of companies to in name only remain in charge, but the nazi government controlled those companies completely. There was very little difference from taking direct ownership of said industries and what the nazis did.
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Oh, and the fact that they literally exterminated socialists and any other left wingers they could find.

With the active aid of the German aristocracy......who would not have tolerated socialism in any way, shape or form and could have absolutely squashed the Nazis early on if they were actually socialists like you claim.
 
Tigerace117 said:
You keep claiming that anti-colonialism is inherently synonymous with communism and that Mandela was a communist, neither of which is true.

Socialists are not the same thing as communists either, so you bringing it up is irrelevant.

The apartheid regime wasn’t just “not kind”; it was colossally brutal and laughably incompetent.

And spewing lies about a “genocide” going on in South Africa helps no one and nothing.
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There's evidence, for anyone who cares to look, that Mandela had Communist ties, though that's a long way for saying he was a doctrinaire Communist.

Haven't had to read whole thread; apologies if this has been covered.
 
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