[Boogieman]

You really don’t get the finer points of what you are discussing.

Socialism is NOT a “strain of Marxism”, it is the other way around. Socialism pre-dated Marx’s ideas, and Marxism is just one strain of Socialism. There was no Marxist idea of the “uber man”, that was a notion the Nazis borrowed from Friedrich Nietzche, not Marx.

Seriously, you are not well versed in these subjects, just stop embarrassing yourself.

[jdsteel]

Marx had many influences (Hegel, Engels, the early version of French Socialism post French Revolution) but for all intents and purposes Marxism blended those elements to inspire the Commies and Socialists that followed. Marx saw Socialism as the transition between Capitalism and Communism. Marx believed that the system would transform and evolve individuals to the point where they would care for the system above their own needs. Hitler once again followed Marx with that idea and (through perversion of his work and persuasion) used the work of Nietzsche to bolster that idea(uber man) and help sell the idea of Eugenics. As stated before, the agricultural system was completely Marxist and the state set prices of everything it produced. Hitler said many contradictory things in his speeches regarding socialism, but what He did was a strain of Marxism, not of our founding fathers. Seriously, condescension isn't warranted.