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Aside from this conflation and misunderstanding of economic, ideological, and historically-contingent terms; if explicit racism is the only difference you think there is between marxism and nazism it’s clear you don’t know as much as you think you do. If you can understand there’s differences and smiliarities between ‘marxist’ socialism and ‘nationalist’ socialism, you should extend that same recognition of blended logic and rhetoric with movements of the ‘right’, ‘extreme’ or not.
>‘Socialism’, he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, ‘is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.
>‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.
>‘We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one…
>Hitler interview Libertymagazine on July 9th 1932
These aren’t words too dissimilar to ‘extreme’ or even ‘conservative’ right figures and movements. If Hitler was a communist, then so is Trump, or LePen
