St Andrews rail link feasibility study published

[Chris]

So if you aren't continually increasing spending then you mustn't be a socialist? Don't be an idiot, government spending being adjusted to balance the books doesn't suddenly lurch the country into some kind free for all where pensioners are left to die on the street.

Edit: Nazis = National Socialists. So no, he wasn't a communist.

[GurraJG]

Next you will be saying that Hitler was a Communist (No offence!)

Alan losses.

[Chris]

Which is why Maggie made those comments about Socialists running out of other peoples money!

How is that relevant? Your argument is that people can't be socialist because they are reducing spending, which is a load of rubbish. Just because you are socialist doesn't remove your ability to impose spending cuts.

Nazis where not too keen on Free-Market Capitalism, in fact Mussolini government took control of a lot of state businesses, which remained under government control until the mid-80s at least

Really, wow I didn't know that!

The clue is in the name - National SOCIALIST. Yes Hitler and Mussolini were maniacs running totalitarian regimes where they thought that killing Jews would make them win the war - that is the national part, but the socialist part is their economic policies, which were most definitely not right wing. Political compass does this in quite a good way - economic policies are done on a left-right basis with the social policies being done on a authoritativeness-liberty basis. The Nazis would be on the left, but also authoritarian.