‘My Father Was a Communist’

Pajamas Media ^ | September 24, 2011 | Ed Driscoll

[decimon]

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The walls were covered with flags, photographs, posters, slogans and emblems. His SA uniforms hung neatly ironed on a hanger…When I said that it must be rather claustrophobic with all that stuff on the walls, he laughed and sat down on the bed, and said: “Mensch! You should have seen it last year! You would have laughed! Then it was all red flags, stars, hammers, sickles, pictures of Lenin and Stalin and Workers of the World Unite!…Then, suddenly when Hitler came to power, I understood it was all nonsense and lies. I realized Adolf was the man for me. All of a sudden!” He snapped his fingers in the air. “And here I am!”…Had a lot of people done the same, then? “Millions! I tell you, I was astonished how easily they all changed sides!”

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[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

As F.A. Hayek pointed out in "The Road To Serfdom", the main reason the Nazis hated the Communists, and vice versa, was that they were both fighting over the same minds: all the deluded masses, with their differing versions of collectivist authoritarian philosophy.

Of course. They don't call it National Socialism for nothing. Many of the early Nazis were recruited from the communists. Apparenlty commies attended Nazi rallies and couldn't tell the difference.

Aside from Naziism being a modified form of communism, one can also consider communism as a form of naziism, for example,

"Man will, at last, begin to harmonize himself in earnest... He will want to master first the semi-conscious and then also the unconscious processes of his own organism: breathing, the circulation of blood, digestion, reproduction, and, within the necessary limits, subordinate them to the control of reason and will... The human species, the sluggish Homo Sapiens, will once again enter the state of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal... to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will... man will become incomparably stronger, wiser, more subtle. His body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more melodious... The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, Goethe, Marx. And beyond this ridge, other peaks will emerge." [Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, 1924.]