[dfwgator]

Communists and Nazis only difference is in the uniforms they wear...trying to explain the difference between the two is like trying to explain the difference between the Bloods and the Crips.

[lbryce]

You're absolutely right. Political thinkers, historians have a very hard time defining Communism, Nazism, as to where exactly on the right/left ideological map they belong. I've read interpretations of Nazism as being far left, other difficult-to-understand political analyses, etc.

But simply as a matter of historical perspective, conventional point-of-view, attributing the quote to Lenin makes Communists as progenitor for Democratic left wing ideology all the more metaphorically symmetrical.