There's socialism in national socialism... All it takes is a few personal horror stories with diversities for a socialist to get there I think...
National Socialism just assumes that your domestic socialists will be less retarded than international socialists. Which ignores the fundamental issue that the perverse incentives of collectivism always fail.
I see what you mean, that being said I'm not convinced collectivism always fail, really not. If the US didn't fight the USSR I'm pretty sure it would have taken over the world, no other power was strong enough to stop them back then. And if the US won, it's not thx to its rugged individualism...
Recent history is mostly the visible part of hidden games of power... Don't forget that.
Sparta lasted for about 1000 years, and it was quite collectivist.
The USSR fell largely due to internal economic issues. Western schools do an absolutely shit job of covering this, largely because Western academics cant read the primary sources in Russian. The short version is that the Soviet budget was so secret only a few people in the country were allowed to see it, because it showed that titanic holes in it were being filled by looting the bank accounts of its citizens. E.g. if your bank statement showed a thousand rubles in your bank account...sure, the statement said that. But it was all spent by the government so by the time the USSR fell it was more like 5 rubles. And not even inflation effery like Western nations do - straight up spent. This made the USSR a house of cards that didnt actually have any savings to backstop emergencies...like the Chernobyl nuclear plant failing. The real disaster there was two-fold: the Soviets had just spent billions of rubles they didnt have on it with no alternate power source available, and their only domestic social orgs not under direct government control were environmentalist groups.
They fostered these environmentalist groups for decades for the sane reason they did so in the West - the watermelons are useful idiots. Until Chernobyl happened, and suddenly they were up to their eyeballs in state-approved protestors who were well organized due to decades of formal state support. And what was the #1 enemy of these protestors all of a sudden? The collectivist government which left them with no power, economic collapse, no way to fix it, and radiation drifting into large cities. Cue the USSR falling over because it could no longer paper over its fuckups.
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