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i couldn't disagree more
>privatization
the nazis weren't inimical to private property on the basis that said property was being used for the betterment of the community as a whole, which basically just means that you can keep your property if you tow the line. it's not the brutal murder and theft the commies committed, but it's still a defacto nationalization of private enterprise. the nazis never called what they did privatization, they called it "Gleichschaltung." most people point to an article by Germa Bell called "privatization in national socialist germany" which actually contradicts itself, and then use it as proof nazis weren't socialist.
from my reading of Jung's book, the nazis are literally doing what socialists nowadays do to each other (and to the nazis) with "they weren't REAL socialists, real socialism has never been tried"
as for the DPRK reference, the DPRK genuinely believe they are democratic. if all the people in the society are made part of the state, then in being made up of the people the state is democratic. fascist Italy did the same thing. the "father" of fascism even stated that "the fascist state is a democratic state par excellence"
clearly, Giovanni Gentile didn't refer to liberal democracy like you think "democracy" means, but he still thought it was "democratic" nonetheless. the nazis aren't playing word games any differently than the rest of the socialists were/are.