[[File:Xi in Maoist outfitZelensky neo-Nazi award.PNG|thumbnail|right|390px300px|General Secretary Xi Jinpingthumb|On the eve of war with Russia, [[Volodoymr Zelensky]] presents neo-Nazi leader Dmytro Kotsyubaylo with the inspiration Hero of ''Xi Jinping Thought'' and proponent Ukraine award.<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/</ref> Kotsyubaylo jokes that his fighters "feed the bones of ''Socialism with Chinese Characteristics''Russian-speaking children to my pet wolf."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/465139-Zelensky-is-Not-in-Charge-of-Ukraine-Nazis-Are-And-They-Believe-They-Are-on-a-Mission-From-God-to-Derussify-Ukraine-in-Holy-War</ref>]]
'''National Socialism''' (from German ''Nationalsozialismus'') is a far-left [[totalitarian]] system originally created in [[Germany]] immediately following [[World War I]], and characterized by a [[collectivist]] view toward [[race]]. German [[Nazism]] was heavily influenced by the [[Democratic Party]]'s [[Jim Crow]] laws and [[Indian Removal Act]], as well and [[Progressive]] [[eugenics]] pseudoscience. <ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/07/31/dinesh-dsouza-hitler-learned-democrats/</ref> National socialist ideology does not seek to abolish [[capitalism]]; rather it seeks to use capitalism and racial or ethnic identity, as in Nazi Germany and contemporary [[China]], to gather more strength and power to itself.
===Leftist influence===
[[File:Zelensky neo-Nazi award.PNG|right|300px|thumb|On the eve of war with Russia, [[Volodoymr Zelensky]] presents neo-Nazi leader Dmytro Kotsyubaylo with the Hero of Ukraine award.<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/</ref> Kotsyubaylo jokes that his fighters "feed the bones of Russian-speaking children to my pet wolf."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/465139-Zelensky-is-Not-in-Charge-of-Ukraine-Nazis-Are-And-They-Believe-They-Are-on-a-Mission-From-God-to-Derussify-Ukraine-in-Holy-War</ref>]]
Supporters of [[Communism]], or of [[socialism]] in general, like to pretend that Nazism was not socialist but "[[right wing]]", for similar reasons to why [[fascism]] is often associated with the right wing despite being left wing. Despite this, however, it featured enough similarities with Communism that they were in fact closer to the [[far left]], even including anti-Semitism, which Karl Marx had advocated.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020116231910/http://russp.org/nazis.html</ref>
===Socialism with Chinese characteristics===
:{{See also|Chinese_Communist_Party#Document_9}}[[File:Xi in Maoist outfit.PNG|thumbnail|right|390px|General Secretary Xi Jinping, the inspiration of ''Xi Jinping Thought'' and proponent of ''Socialism with Chinese Characteristics''.]]
National socialist images of a sacred bloodline have become a feature of [[CCP]] ideology. Su Jingzhuang, from the Central Party School, wrote an article on Xi Jinping Thought in the ''Study Times'', arguing: "Red genes are a genetic factor that has taken root in the body of our party and flows through the blood vessels of CCP cadres; they [form] the spiritual lineage of the Chinese races’ coexistence and co-prosperity, and [they are] a core political advantage in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."<ref>https://archive.ph/PsH7T</ref>