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To: chuck_the_tv_out
The fact that socialists endorsed nazis would be shocking to most people.

It isn't shocking at all. Nazis are socialists. Sovietism and Nazism were competing forms of socialism, hence the antipathy between the two groups. The war between Stalin and Hitler was thus a religious war between two Socialist sects.

13 posted on 07/02/2010 1:08:03 AM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: Redcloak

Sovietism and Nazism were competing forms of socialism, hence the antipathy between the two groups. The war between Stalin and Hitler was thus a religious war between two Socialist sects.

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Trotsky said as much. He pointed out that the competing ideologies drew recruits from the same people, but the Nazis attracted people who still had something to lose and wanted to preserve their status, while the communists drew people who had nothing.

OH NOES! I CITED TROTSKY!

Hey, did you know that power flows from the barrel of a gun?


15 posted on 07/02/2010 1:20:53 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Green shoots? Those aren't green shoots! Those are mold spots!)
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To: Redcloak

thank you. Very well put.
Brings to mind the old saying, “Two of a trade never agree.”
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Nazis are socialists. Sovietism and Nazism were competing forms of socialism, hence the antipathy between the two groups. The war between Stalin and Hitler was thus a religious war between two Socialist sects.


40 posted on 07/02/2010 1:18:20 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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