Fears of communism..... - an interesting question

[queen of diamonds]

Just something that occured to me the other day....when Hitler got himself appointed chancellor, one of the main arguments that finally swayed the president into appointing him was that the extremist parties were gaining support in Germany, and that at that point in time, the country was either going to go to the Nazis or the communists. von Hindenburg, like the rest of the world, was terrified of communism, and thus appointed Hitler.
Is it just me that finds it strange that with an example such as this of what fear of communism can do, so very few people are taking the trouble to try to understand it, rather than just swallowing what the american media says?

[I LOVE HO CHI MINH]

Obviously that lot of people feared communism. American media is involved in this of course. Marx said it when he wrote the Communist Manifesto: "A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies".

[flames of the flag]

ppl are afraid of communsim because they just cant imagine value non-material things. Its fuckin crazy that everyone is so greedy

[STALINSOLDIERS]

the media dont speak for them selves....they say usa media are the best of the world cause they got freedom of speech well they dont there all lies.....

[Dreadnaht1]

Actually I read somewhere that throughtout WW2 all of Europe feared the USSR more then Hitler or Germany.

That's kinky, ain't it?

-Dread

[Kez]

Quote: from queen of diamonds on 1:23 am on April 26, 2002

Is it just me that finds it strange that with an example such as this of what fear of communism can do, so very few people are taking the trouble to try to understand it, rather than just swallowing what the american media says?


i dont think they are swallowing it, more that its being rammed down their mouths

Also Dreadnaught, yes thats true, the **** imperialists believed that Fascism was the worse of the 2 (communism being the other). After all, it did support the bourgious capitalists unlike our red friends

comrade kamo

[James]

People are afraid of change.

[Ho]

Comminism was feared by every political leader in europe except Lenin.
Von Hindenburg appointed Hitler not mainly because of his fears for communism but mainly because he had no support from the parliament where more tha 2/3 were Nazi.
Moreover, the chancellor SHOULD be part of the party who had tha majority.

[elizquierdista]

People fear communism because they don't understand it. Moreover they fear what they don't know. Here, in the U.S. communism is made to look as a horrible evil. Personally, I don't agree with communism (I'm a socialist, practically the same but several differences) but would definitely prefer it over a void materialistic capitalist system.

[queen of diamonds]

Ho, the Nazis never had the majority - at best, their numbers peaked at 33% of the vote, & that was after hitler's appointment - i know you're talking about the majority seats, but that should be some reflection of how the seats were distributed
& after hitler's appointment, the number of Nazis in the Reichstag was limited to 2 plus hitler - had they originally held 2/3 of the reichstag, they would've held power anyway & they wouldn' t have needed to push to get hitler appointed
the reason von Hindenburg didn't have any support wasn't because there were that many Nazis, but because the only other option was the communists