It’s not revisionist. Most people see the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and then say “yeah that shit isn’t socialist”. It’s a historical blind spot most people have about post-Weimar Germany.
It also helps that the socialist wing of the party was wiped out (literally) before the party became, er, internationally famous. If nobody had heard of the USSR until Stalin’s purges, they might have said they weren’t socialist either.
It’s not revisionist. Most people see the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and then say “yeah that shit isn’t socialist”. It’s a historical blind spot most people have about post-Weimar Germany.
It also helps that the socialist wing of the party was wiped out (literally) before the party became, er, internationally famous. If nobody had heard of the USSR until Stalin’s purges, they might have said they weren’t socialist either.
Also, the “left” wing of the party were still fucking unhinged.