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Here is text from an interview of Hitler by the AP in 1932:

18. August 1932 Dok. 173
Interview mit Associated Press 1
The Manchester Guardian vom 20.8 . 1 932, “Nazi Economic Policy”

When asked wether the Nazi movement’ s opposition to the big industrial concerns meant that Hitler wanted all large factories and businesses to be abolished, he replied:

“I would not be so silly as to try to eliminate all large concerns . You cannot ‘build’ railway engines in a blacksmith’s shop nor ocean liners in a rowing-boat shed. You must remember, however, that we live close to a country where Communism is exclusively preached and where
an attempt is made to put it into effect. We also have millions of unemployed in our country.

“lt would not do to have wealth and property concentrated in the hands of a few people or a few concerns. When this property is wisely distributed among millions of our people - that is, when everybody has their share of the goods of the world, - then we hope to supply the proper
offset to the Communists ideas.

“We want our middle class, which is becoming poorer and poorer and whose means of livelihood are cut off more and more by large business concerns to be placed in a position where they can have their share in these goods.”

By my reading, he is saying we have to go “full-commie” so we then distinguish ourselves from the commies.