The “socialist” in the name was a bit of marketing - unless you also think the “peoples republic of North Korea” is in fact a republic.

The Nazis murdered all of the leftists in their party. Using the word "socialist" in the name as a marketing tool does not make them leftist in any sense at all.

>if you have a right/left clock Hitler stays at 11:59 and Stalin at 00:01

Stalin is so "left" that he's touches shoulder with extreme "right". Stalin and Hitler where so extreme that you cannot talk about right or left (hence the 2 minute difference)

Horseshoe theory is not something taken seriously among academics.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

Seams pretty much accepted too me.

>Horseshoe theory is not something taken seriously among academics.

Show me proof for that.

Having a wiki page is not usually a good proxy for academic consensus, especially for a controversial topic and especially when "Criticism" is a big chunk of the article.

My "proof" is the fact that every academic I know in history, sociology, and political science laughs whenever the topic is brought up. This is across institutions.

>My "proof" is the fact that every academic I know in history

Gosh..you must be einstein of sociology ;)