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I think one of the greatest mistakes/misconceptions people perpetuate about Fascism, and about Naziism, in particular, is that the NSDAP represents some kind of historical aberration, rather than the inevitable end-stage of a fundamentally disordered conception of Property.
Fascism is not the result of a "broken" system, it is the natural, logical consequence of the belief that Nature can be owned as Property. It its seemingly most benign form, we call this idea "homeownership", and believe it to be a moral good.
Taken to a greater extent, it is the basis of Feudalism, rule by landowners. Most people think of feudalism in terms of the European "chivalric" model of monarchy, but the foundation of it is the claim of the King or the baron to a property interest in the land.
Many historians seize upon the etymology of the word "fief" and focus myopically on the idea of "service" or "allegiance", but the underlying truth is that the fief was a grant of property from an owner with a higher claim.
The monarch owned the country by divine right, who then granted fiefdoms to Duke, Earls, Counts, Barons, etc, in exchange for obligations, and the peasant or serf was granted land to work in exchange for rent.
Fascism is a means of defining an ingroup or tribe based upon their regional origins, as expressed through the genetic lineage one necessarily shares with one's neighbors after generations, centuries, millennia of closely interbreeding.
Such people will inevitably tend to evolve to bear similar characteristics in appearance, culture, and language, all tied to a specific location.
Today's ill-educated Fascists would like you to believe that fascism is "anything which opposes fascism", but fascism is a very specific ideological typology that ties legitimacy to location and genetic heritage. It is an inherently authoritarian collectivist ideological bent.
Some people want to define fascism as "nationalism coupled with favoritism toward corporation", but that's equally inaccurate. Corporatism or capitalism have nothing to do with fascism, really. Fascism is about blood and soil.
And that is why the Nazis called themselves "the National Socialist German Worker's Party" (NSDAP), and why "socialists" continually claim that the Nazis weren't socialists, even though the NSDAP clearly were.
The difference, however, between the NSDAP and the "international socialist movement" is found in that word "National". The Nazis were big fans of socialist policies, and implemented many of them; however, those programs were, of course only available to "Aryans", whereas...
the so-called "international socialist movement" flatters itself by being theoretically racially inclusive. To be fair, the international socialists have generally always been more accepting of racial diversity than the fascists.
The only color you have that socialists really care about is the color of your money, because socialism is based on a theory of property that denies any private property rights whatsoever. To a socialist, the product of your labor belongs to the common wealth. Socialism is theft.
Like Fascism, Socialism is an inherently authoritarian collectivist ideological typology. Both have their roots in fundamentally disordered moral conceptions of Property. And that is why I oppose both vehemently.
Fascism assigns ownership of Nature to "the Volk", the ethnic/genetic elite. Socialism assigns ownership of Labor to "the Proletariat".
Of course, if you say this to a socialist, you are likely to be the recipient of a deeply obfuscated notion that there's some sort of distinction between "personal property" and "private property". "Personal property", to a socialist is, "whatever the state decides not to steal".
But, this is really about Fascism and its particular evil, not Socialism and its particular ills. The second you allow some group of people to define some location as "belonging" only to some particular genetic/ethnic clan, you grant that group the legitimate authority...
to determine who may or may not be part of society. You create a hierarchical system of citizenship, and you lay the basis for the denial of human rights to all those out-clan.
And that is how you get "redlining", even in an ostensibly constitutional democratic-republic society with no established feudal aristocracy. What makes a "lord" is not the title or the crown, but the possession of the land.
That is how you develop a racist culture that attacks the voting rights of those perceived to be out-clan, denigrates their legitimate presence with the territory ("go back to where you came from"), polices them, terrorises them, and lynches them.
The United States was never immune to Fascism. In a way, the United States has always been a fascist nation. "E pluribus unum" ("from the many, one"), the sheaf of arrows (literally a fasces) has always been part of American iconography. Even the eagle, symbol of Rome & Naziism.
It should be acknowledged that the US has up until very recently been only mildly Fascist. We maintained the fiction for a very long time that anyone was welcome to come here. We prided ourselves on this idea. But the ruling class has always been white, underneath it all.
Like the Nazis, the Founders and Framers expressed high-minded ideals in our historical documents, but the reality is, for many, and perhaps even most, of them, those ideals were really only meant for the in-group, those of white ethnicity.
The definition of "white" in America has certainly been subject to drift over the past couple of centuries, but it's always been there, and up until recent decades, white Americans have worked assiduously to counter any threat to white supremacy in America, by hook or by crook.
The post-Sputnik (1958-) period saw a rapid increase in racial equality in America, from the Black Civil Rights movement to the massive influx of Asian immigration post-1965. Even as late as the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan was touting America as a place where all were welcome.
Much of this was the result of seeing the effects of World War II and the Korean War, but it was also to some extent a calculated strategy to decrease the global influence of the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War.
