Original sentence: Nazis rejected the class struggle and common ownership of the means of production, which many consider the main tenets of socialism.Some people claim that Nazism is a form of socialism, but traditional socialists reject the nationalism and racism of the Nazis, and consider them a far right party that used the guise of socialism
Edited sentence: "You have not forgotten the political conditions of those days, my old party members-the conditions of our political life.Adolf Hitler, February 24, 1941.Between these two there yawned a gulf which, it was asserted, could never be bridged.But, fundamentally both movements were already sterile.Despite purging the party of leftists and opposing trade unions, Hitler constantly maintained in public that the party had socialist roots, but that it was not a Marxist nor international socialist movement.He also denied that it was a reactionary nationalist movement.He claimed instead that the fusion of German nationalism and socialism was necessary as both ideologies were inept without each other.Hitler was different from other anti-communists in Germany in that he was willing to use leftist terms like "proletariat" and "bourgeois" to describe society.Some people claim that Nazism is a form of socialism, but traditional socialists reject the nationalism and racism of the Nazis, and consider them a far right party that used the guise of socialism to attract the working class to the movement.The bourgeois ideal was limited to a class; the Marxian ideal was unlimited internationally.The nationalist idea of the bourgeoisie was exclusively bourgeois, and the socialist ideal was exclusively Marxian.This was illustrated in a speech he made in February 1941 which says:.You still remember the placards of the two great conflicting ideas-the bourgeoisie on the one side and the proletariat on the other; on the one side nationalism, on the other socialism