Posted on 11/25/2007 11:50:06 AM PST by ECM
The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe. Nazis, Bolsheviks, the Ku Klux Klan, Maoists, radical Islam and Facists -- all are on the Left, something that should be increasingly apparent to decent, honorable people in our times. The Big Lie which places Nazis on some mythical Far Right was created specifically so that there would be a bogeyman manacled on the wrists of those who wish us to move "too far" in the direction of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater.
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Hitler invaded Russia because he hated Slavs, which Russians are. He wanted more living space. Soviet Union and Nazis Germany were allies up until 1941.
“Rush once said that the only difference between socialists and communists is that a socialist will let you live if you disagree with them.”
That is an important distinction!
If I remember right, communists (sometimes) believed that socialism was an intermediate step on the path to communism. If so, the socialist would allow you to live ‘for now.’
Stalin believed that nation comes first. He even said that to Lenin and caused conflict with Trotsky. Communism and Nationalism come hand in hand. North Korea is a good example of that.
Nazis, communists, socialists and today’s Democrats all want to seize the means of production for their political (power) ends.
The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek
HEAVEN ON EARTH: THE RISE AND FALL OF SOCIALISM by Joshua Muravchik.
I have read these books and think they are excellent. I think you would enjoy:
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers,
By Mark Skousen
That was a “marriage of convenience” until Hitler saw fit to terminate the relationship. It does not mean Hitler liked Marxism in any way.
>>>The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe.
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EXCERPTS FROM NAKED COMMUNIST
Former FBI agent, Cleon Skoussen, in 1958, in his book, THE NAKED COMMUNIST
Excerpts from Chapter 8, Communism and World War 2
Page 156:
The Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in Germany
It is said that Communism was largely responsible for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It will be recalled that when the German Kaiser capitulated in 1918 the Communists tried to take over Germany. Anticommunist political groups immediately sprang up and through a frantic coalition they prevented the Communists from seizing power. It was this anticommunist atmosphere that Adolf Hitler began his political career.
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...[Stalin] recognized in the Nazi dictator a formidable opponent of his own breed and kind. He saw that Hitler was shrewd and ruthless. He was completely amoral. He had no compunction whatever against violence, the purging of his own people, the use of deceit in propaganda, or the sacrifice of millions of lives to achieve personal power. Materialism had produced precisely the same product in Germany that it had produced in Russia. Although called by different names, Nazism and Communism were aimed at the same identical mark and were forged in very similar ideological molds.
OPINION:
Sounds like the Log Cabin Republicans and the Victory Fund Democrats.
Never forget that NAZI stands for National SOCIALISTS German Worker’s Party. They were SOCIALISTS.
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There are several variants of socialism. One variant is communism where the state owns all property, and prices are determined by the state, and profits go to the state. This is socialism de jure. Another variant is Hitler’s fascistic version where property was privately owned but controlled by the state, prices were determined by the state, and profits and wages were controlled by the state. This was de facto socialism. Both were irrational altruistic, collectivistic, and statistic.
Thanks for the ping
Reagan often alluded to Hayek in talking about freedom vs the evil empire.
The Communists and the Nazis were in a close battle for Germany for a while until the Nazis won. Maybe they are very similar since they both descended from positivist science but they were definitely different groups of people.
The Left-Right political continuum that is popular these days is stupidly inaccurate; it should be libertarian-socialist.
the nazis were marxists, and so are the dems in this country.
And yet....
http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/index.html
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” —Adolf Hitler
Hitler was intent on having a community of mutual interest that desired mutual success instead of one that was divided over the control of money or differing values.
THE COMMON INTEREST BEFORE SELF-INTEREST -
THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE PROGRAM. BREAKING OF THE THRALDOM OF INTEREST - THAT IS THE KERNEL OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM.
(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
Consider the German political audience in 1927.
I like to think of it as follows: Naziism is National Socialism, and what we call Communism is INTERNATIONAL Socialism.
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