Posted on 02/12/2009 7:43:12 AM PST by SJackson
“The real reason those who think it was right-wing was simply that it fought communism for control of the totalitarian idealogy.”
That’s exactly right. The National Socialists saw the communists as the greatest threat to their power, as they both sought pretty much the same thing; hence, they wanted to eliminate that threat. In an economic sense, the two agendas were not that far apart; and, politically, they both championed the idea of a dictator. They just differed as to WHO the dictator should be.
As a follow-up to my previous comment, I have often used — in order to describe the relationship between the National Socialists and the communists in Germany — the relationship between the Jacobins and the Girondists in France in the 1790s. The Jacobins and Girondists were allies against the monarchy and shared many of the same goals, but after they got rid of the monarchy they ended up challenging each other for ultimate control of France. The Nazis and and commies did the same thing in Germany vis-a-vis the Weimar Republic. The commies — just as the Girondists — were primarily theorists; whereas the Nazis — just as the Jacobins — were activists in the truest sense (they pursued action as the true expression of their dogma).
That’s a fact. To use a baseball analogy, Hitler hit a double; Stalin hit a single-run homer; Mao hit a grand slam. That is the difference among the three as to who was the most accomplished at slaughter.
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