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[TheWanderer]

Why do some peiople say the Nazi's were Communists?
They were bloody Fascists right?

[Taiga]

I guess this mislead is coming from the Hitler's National Socialist Party. And as you know, National Socialist=Socialist, and Socialist=Communist. All this ignorant crap.

By the way, I've never heard people saying that Nazis were Communist. :huh:

[Ze]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 11:05 PM
Why do some peiople say the Nazi's were Communists?
They were bloody Fascists right?
they were the archetypical fascist regime.

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

I guess this mislead is coming from the Hitler's National Socialist Party. And as you know, National Socialist=Socialist, and Socialist=Communist. All this ignorant crap.

most people don't even know it was called the NSDAP.

This is why: they see Communist as authoritarian, and Nazism As authoritarian, thus they see Fascism as both Communism and Nazism, so thus Communism = Nazism.

Someone once called me a Facist when I was arguing with him about Communism (Me) vs radical Christianity (him)

[The Grinch]

Occam's Razor.

They say it because they're fucking morons.

[Archimboldi]

when hitler first joined the Nazi party they were a socialist party sympathetic to workers. and as he increased in power inside the Nazi party he twisted it's policies untill it was full blown facism.

Hitler actually despised communism and the soviets, which is clear if you read "Mein Kampf", (or "My struggle").

[LSD]

Why do some peiople say the Nazi's were Communists?

Because they weren't laissez-faire capitalists and to many on the right, any degree of market interference is akin to communism.


they were the archetypical fascist regime.

No, that would be the Italians.


when hitler first joined the Nazi party they were a socialist party sympathetic to workers.

Barely.

The NSDAP was never a full-blown socialist party, although they did initially had some socialist leanings. They were always racist and nationalist, however, and from the begining they were opposed the mainstream Germans ocialist and communist parties.

If anything, the original Drexler party would best be described as occultist. It was heavily sponsored by the Thule Society and bought into all that romantic German nonsense about "Aryans" and Teutonic knights.

Their economic policies, what they had of them, were basically Gottfried Feder's theories with a tinge of sentimental nationalism.

Basically the party was founded to opposse the "red menace" and it's loyalty to the "workers" was only insofar as they represented the "German nation".

[Red Rebel]

Why do some peiople say the Nazi's were Communists?
They were bloody Fascists right?

As stated before, it could be because of ignorance. Another reason is because moderate capitalist don't like either. It discredits communism when it is compared to fascism.