In a 1923 interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Hitler said, "Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning....Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic....Our socialism is national....We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatinterviews1</ref>
===Paganism===
Some modern historians attempt to link Nazism to Christianity. This however, is lacking any true historical basis. In ''The Occult Causes of the Present War'', historian Lewis Spence notes the overbearing pagan and satanic ideological that drove the Nazi Party. Nazis frequently engaged in the "replacement of the cross by the Swastika" in churches and that their party leaders had resurrected the worship of the fertility goddess Holle.<ref>[https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hitlers-monsters-eric-kurlander.htm Hitler’s Monsters]</ref> Other mystical and pagan beliefs that dominated their ideology included a focus on the lost city of Atlantis and Welteislehre, or World Ice Theory.<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nazis-and-the-dark-arts Nazis and the dark arts]</ref>
===Socialism with Chinese characteristics===