hitler is a socialist! boris is not a socialist
BS. Nothing is as simplistic as [MENTION=146]DutchJazzer[/MENTION] would have people believe....
National Socialism, colloquially termed "Nazism"[1] is generally viewed as being as far right on the political spectrum as you can get. Far right politics are generally characterized as having the following characteristics:
Authoritarian system of government
Nazism is very clearly authoritarian in nature: you exist for the good of the state, and if the state deems that you are not holding up your end, the state murders you. If you're lucky, they may just hold off at sterilization, imprisonment or exile, but murder's a viable option for the government in Nazism. So yes, Nazism is clearly an authoritarian ideology.
Nativism and xenophobia
Nativism is the idea that people who are "from" here are better than people who are not "from" here. The reason I've put "from" in quotation marks is because this is almost invariably an arbitrary classification - nativist movements in the US, for example, have not been pro-Native American, but rather, have just been anti-immigration. The racial politics of Nazism are more than a little similar to the racist rantings of nativists, so we've got another box checked.
And as for that whole "low unemployment rate" thing, it actually fits in here. The NSDAP kept the unemployment rate low by conscription - defend the Fatherland against the demonic hordes of untermenschen! (And while I'm at it, the useful infrastructure projects had been inaugurated under Weimar rule, whereas the projects most akin to South Africa's World Cup stadiums - which is to say, useless bits of propaganda that were guaranteed to not pay for themselves - were Nazi projects.)
Extreme revulsion towards communists and socialists
Now, you can point to many states throughout the years that have banned communist parties despite not being far right. However, you really cannot point to any states that have banned social democratic parties without being far right. The Nazis fall into that latter category - anything that remotely sounded left-leaning got banned.
A general lack of belief in the concept of equality
This goes hand in hand with the racism/xenophobia side of things, but in the end, the far right does not believe that people are equal, is not interested in redressing the imbalance and view the lesser people as being fit for exile, at best. This characterizes pretty much every party that gets labelled as far right, and it sure as shooting characterizes Nazism.
However, some of this stuff also applies to far left politics. Stalinism and Mao Zedong Thought are both authoritarian ideologies, and one can't go further left on the spectrum than that. There's this theory in political science called "horseshoe theory" that pretty much stipulates that the far left and the far right have much more in common than do the regular left and the regular right.
[1] The name of the German National Socialist party was the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei." [Edit starts here] Even in German, this is a lot to say, so NSDAP was commonly used by the party’s supporters and “Nazi” — a term which, in Bavaria, meant something akin to “idiot” — by its detractors.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Nazism-considered-far-right-in-political-terms
"Let me add to Mr. Kingsberg's very good answer that Nazis are considered far right in part because they defined themselves that way, and neo Nazis continue to consider themselves far right today. There are some propaganda claims out there now by some libertarians and conservatives that try to ludicrously claim Nazis were socialists, though the Nazis despised and killed millions of socialists. As a general rule of thumb, ideologies and their followers are both what they define themselves as, and as their opponents define them.
Nazis say they are far right. So do communists, socialists, liberals, moderates, and many conservatives. A small number of programs, put in place before they were in power, don't contradict that."
