10 Similarities and Differences of National and Democratic Socialism

At the core of both of these philosophies is a hatred of entrepreneurship and a disdain for individualism. Despite the left portraying Hitler as a right winger, Hitler was no fan of right wing economics.

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” -Adolf Hitler, Quoted in John Toland, “Adolf Hitler”, p224.

That doesn’t exactly sound like the kind of guy to read Rothbard.

Democratic Socialists also dislike capitalism. In fact, Socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is one of the first candidates to openly say he isn’t a Capitalist, during a debate no less.

“Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little? By which Wall Street greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No I don’t.” -Bernie Sanders during the first Democratic Presidential Debate

Again, probably not a Rothbard fan.