Orwell on Nazism as socialism

In parts cross-posted from Stephen Hicks.

Bear in mind that these days the socialists have added the moniker "democrats" or "democracy" to their socialist party name. Like the SPD, Social Democratic Party of Germany.

George Orwell, in contrast to those who want to distance National Socialism from their own preferred version of socialism:

“Internally, Germany [under the Nazis] has a good deal in common with a Socialist state. Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and — this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathise with Fascism — generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything. It controls investment, raw materials, rates of interest, working hours, wages. The factory owner still owns his factory, but he is for practical purposes reduced to the status of a manager. Everyone is in effect a State employee, though the salaries vary very greatly.”

full post here.