Posted on 08/13/2020 8:40:49 PM PDT by Intar
This is so far the best walk through of the parallels and differences between Marxism, Nazism, and Capitalism with a focus on the 3rd Reich. It's a long one at 4.5 hours, but so well put together that I watched it in three sittings and found it accurate and enlightening. In my opinion, this video should be required education for all Americans.
The difference is the nazi’s wore snazzy uniforms.
Thanks for posting this
The Soviets had similar uniforms, but with bitchin hats!
Bkmk
Best quote ever on this, from the mid-40s:
Although our modern socialists’ promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under “communism” and “fascism.” As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, “the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.”
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Didn’t Hitler hate the Communists?
Hitler and Stalin were great friends and carved up Poland together.
Watch the video as it covers that in great detail.
I should fess up that I screwed up on the title and should have said that Nazism and Marxism are both forms of Socialism and aren’t really the same. They do share many parallels that makes the ideology almost the same; one based on class struggle, the other on race struggle. Beyond that, the similarities are far greater than the differences. Watch it and you will see what I am saying.
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East.
In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,
A farmer has 2 cows that give milk and a neighbor farmer whose cow has just died.
1) The Socialist will say give him one of yours.
2) The communist will take all the milk and ‘promise’ to give you back your ‘fair’ share.
3) The Facist will take both cows and ask: “What are u going to do about it?”
4) The capitalist? Think hard: He’ll sell 1 cow and buy a bull.
***Nazism and Marxism are both forms of Socialism and aren’t really the same.****
It has been pointed out that Marx and Hitler were the two bastard sons of the German Philosopher Hegel by different philosophical mothers.
Bkmk
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Nazis, fascists, communists were/are all socialists. The fighting was over which brand of socialism should be inflicted on the world.
For later....
bkmk
lol
4.5 hours!?!?!?
That’s 4.25 hours past my attention span!
You know, I like Jordan Peterson, but in several of his talks, he always refers to Nazis as “Far Right.” Nothing more than the world’s Leftists attempting to absolve their ideology as one that killed over 6 million Jews! Fascists and Nazis are just different forms of totalitarian Marxists!
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