I would say that because to be a Nazi was to be a member or at least a collaborator of the NSDAP, there are no Nazis today.
However, I already granted that we do have Neo-Nazis who seek to enforce an ideology based on the NSDAP. And even though the American Nazi Party is very different from the NSDAP, I'll still grant that they are similar enough to be called Neo-Nazis.
You're ignoring the most important part of central planning according to Marxists, which is collective ownership. Hitler and Göring didn't try to create collective ownership in Germany. Stalin didn't try it in the Soviet Union. Mao didn't try it in China. I don't know what was in these people's hearts, maybe deep down they were Socialists. But what we can say for sure is they did not practice Socialism, which makes it at least most likely that they weren't Socialists. Saying the Nazis were Socialists would be the hardest sell, because a very small percent of German businesses were even nationalized.The NAZIs were absolutely socialist, including most closely implementing the Marxist stage of central planning forthwith called in the Communist Manifesto with the Four Year Plan under Goering. Only the Soviet Union came close to rivaling the total centralized control of industry and commerce as NAZI Germany did when Hitler made Goering the premier economy czar.
That's beside the point. The point is we should look at a government's actions, not what it calls itself. If the Nazis called themselves Socialists, but didn't practice Socialism, then they weren't Socialists. Much like how Kim Jong-un can call his country a Democracy, but he doesn't allow democratic elections, so it's not really a Democracy.Marxists use the term "Democracy" as a code word for "Marxism." Yes, they have hijacked the word and you see in the form of Marxist countries calling themselves "Democratic People's Republic" or "People's Democratic Republic" or the DNC calling for open borders to build a better "Democracy."
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