"Hektor" wrote:
Colloquially one may use the term NAZI, but as soon as this is used in more serious discourse, it isn't any longer....
I think that is an overstatement.
Unfortunately, even if you ask Germans from the before-time, assuming that you can find any still alive, their opinions are tainted by the eighty or so years that have happened since ─ a completely immersive environment where Hitler is the greatest demon of all time.
Goebbels was a master of propaganda, and yet he did not regard the colloquial terminology "Nazi" in a negative fashion. This is what he truly believes, like drinking sparkling spring water or breathing fresh air from an open window.
Goebbels was truly proud of the term Nazi. I find any view to the contrary to be ahistorical and frankly bizarre. Why is this even an issue?
However, I am not the orthodox terminology police. There is nothing wrong with the term National Socialist, so there is no reason not to use it as needed, especially when and if fomality is preferred.
The important thing in my mind is not Nazi or NS in the jargon wars, but simply that National Socialism was the only non-Marxist "socialism."
Nazi (or NS if you prefer) emphasizes the "Nazi" or
National aspects of Socialism, and deliberately and completely purges Marx & Engels, which is factually correct anyway.
