The Nazi Party's name alone is rejected as a sufficient basis for classifying Hitler's actual politics. Political organizations brand themselves, so the words on the label do not necessarily describe their conduct or governing structure. The discussion places democracy and authoritarianism on a second axis alongside conventional left-right placement. In this interpretation, movements become methodologically similar when imposing an ideology requires ever greater coercion, until personal dictatorship can displace coherent doctrine.
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Political labels versus authoritarian practice
A political-history aside warns against reading a movement's ideology directly from its chosen name and focuses instead on how increasingly coercive methods converge under authoritarian rule.