Posted on 09/24/2011 7:30:33 PM PDT by decimon
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.]
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