Nazi’s were Marxists? Yeah, right. That’s why Hitler invaded Russia. Hitler had nothing but contempt for Marxists.
Aside from megalomania, Hitler invaded Russia because he loathed the Slavs at least as much as the Jews. The fact that Russia was Communist then was simply a bonus, as far as Addled Adolph was concerned.
Like Sunnis have contempt for Shiites. Which doesn't change the fact that they are just different flavors of Muslim
Hitler got lots of recruits from the Communist Party. And let's not forget the Hitler-Stalin pact, which STARTED WW2 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Russia.
The main difference between Hitler and Stalin was that they each wanted themselves to be in charge. And so there was only room enough in the world for one of them
Both National Socialism and Stalinism had a world-view where the individual is the property of the State, to be used for the attainment of the goals of the State, as envisioned by the Leader of the State
See my previous post.
I will note that Hayek was an economist who was an on-the-scene contemporaneous observer of events in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hitler had contempt for organizational communists and it was the hatred and contempt of one sect for a similar sect when they are rivals for world domination.
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.
Read the article, if you want to avoid ignoramousity...
Just because you have two versions of collectivism/socialism/marxism which hated each other, doesn't make them opposite ends of the political scale.
By that logic, Al Capone must not have been a gangster because the only people he killed were other gangsters.
There was only one significant difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. German socialism was nationalistic while Soviet socialism was internationalist. Those differing policies were not accidental. Germany had a nearly homogeneous population united by a common language and history. Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution was a vast multi racial and multi ethnic territory with no unifying language or culture. If Hitler had been Russian, he would have been the internationalist just as Stalin would have been a nationalist in Germany. They each pulled the levers they needed to gain and consolidate power.
As far as their economic policies and view of the role and power of government over the people, they were virtually identical. The fact that they made war on each other means nothing.