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Nazism is not Reactionary

For the upcoming battles on the Fascism and especially the Nazism article, I plan to remove the word "reactionary" from the article. All my facts are placed here for your reading enjoyment--Talk:Nazism/Revolutionary not Reactionary WHEELER 16:41, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Interesting points, but we shouldn't be basing our articles off Nazi propaganda. "Reactionary" and "Revolutionary" are words with many connotations, and I feel that both should be avoided. The first one, I don't like in any context, and the second as a noun, rather than an adjective... --Tothebarricades.tk 13:33, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Revolutionary viz. evolutionary. Nazi ideology is reactionary (and even millenarian) in that it attempted to preserve and revive various 'Germanic' components from the past and was very much against the (conventionally-viewed) 'revolutionary' political parties (SPD and KPD). On the same token, its racist doctrine and racialist policy was, in a sense, revolutionary. It all depends on the context provided. The vague manner in which this polemic has been phrased, it is largely a play with semantics, and as such, valueless. El_C

Depending on how you define these terms, the same political group can be revolutionary and reactionary at the same time: Reactionary because it seeks to return to some past state or revive some traditions, and revolutionary because it seeks to achieve its goals by revolutionary means. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 22:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC)