Extensive Nazi-Communist overlap confirmed.

Article: The impressive numbers of German communists who joined the Nazi Party

> In his memoir, "Hitler aus nächster Nähe: Aufzeichnungen eines Vertrauten 1929-1932", written in 1946, Wagener - who never denied the nazi ideology - quoted a few words pronounced by Hitler in a speech before his coming to power, and that reveal his idea about the positioning of Nazism on the political map: "we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one."

> The KPD strategy was much less successful than the recruitment of communist militants by the NSDAP, especially from January 1933, when Hitler took over the Chancellery. In relation to the passage of militants from the KPD to the NSDAP, historian Timothy Scott Brown collected very interesting data in his book "Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance" (Berghahn, 2009), noting on page 136 that in what as regards the SA, "it is known that a significant part of the new recruits previously belonged to the KPD."

> Scott exposes the estimates collected by Rudolf Diels, first head of the Gestapo -the political police of the Third Reich-, in his memoirs, "Lucifer Ante Portas: Von Severing bis Heydrich" (1950), pointing out that in Berlin 70% of the new recruits to the SA from January 1933 were former Communists. The most striking fact of those indicated by Diels is that in some cases, entire Rot Front units moved to the SA. According to Sven Reichardt ("Faschistische Kampfbünde. Gewalt und Gemeinschaft im italienischen Squadrismus und in der deutschen SA", Cologne, 2002), the social democrat Albert Grzesinski, head of the Berlin Police between 1930 and 1932, pointed out that 30% of the members of the SA in Berlin were ex-communists as early as 1932.

> In his book, Timothy Scott Brown also quotes the estimates of a subordinate of Diels in the Gestapo, whom he quotes as Gisevius ... noting that at least a third of the members of the SA as of 1933 were former communists. These militants were known by their companions as nazi rindersteak (Nazi beef steaks), considering them brown on the outside - in reference to the color of the SA uniform shirt - and red on the inside.

> The paradox of the German case is that many members of the KPD, the largest communist party after the Soviet at that time, ended up going from anti-fascism to nazism without major problems. A few years later, in 1939, the Nazis and Soviets ended up allying themselves to invade Poland

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Communism is not a belief that "all cultures are equal".

It is the view that "the workers shall collectively control the means of production". The first thing would be an add-on to that, but it's not essential to being a communist. Those beliefs tend to go together but not always.

To say otherwise is a lie. I generally see fascists positing that first false made-up definition in an attempt to distance themselves from communists who they have immense similarities with. They will twist themselves into rhetorical knots trying to distinguish themselves from communists and Marxists but it's all schizo wordplay and trickery.

You can be a communist and also be anti-Semitic, racist, anti-gay or whatever. None of those views are essential or non-essential to Communism. Even Karl Marx had anti-Semitic attitudes. Does that make the godfather of Communism not a real communist?

"I have learned a great deal from Marxism" he once remarked, "as I do not hesitate to admit". He was proud of a knowledge of Marxist texts acquired in his student days before the First World War and later in a Bavarian prison, in 1924, after the failure of the Munich putsch.
-Adolf Hitler quote
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html

What fascists oppose about modern communists is not their socialism but their anti-racism, and what modern communists oppose about modern fascists is not their socialism but their racialism. But if you take away the racialism and anti-racialism on either side, they agree that the workers must be collectively put in charge of the economy.

In a 1943 speech Hitler called for the abolition of economic classes.

"All the more so after the war, the German National Socialist state, which pursued this goal from the beginning, will tirelessly work for the realization of a program that will ultimately lead to a complete elimination of class differences and to the creation of a true socialist community." - Adolf Hitler's Speech for the Heroes' Memorial Day (1943)

How is this not Marxism?

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On Hitler's embrace of economic Bolshevism.

> "The National Socialists of Germany were anti-capitalists par excellence. They actually spelled it out in the 13th plank of their 25-Point program of 1920, demanding “nationalization of all businesses which have been up to the present formed into companies (trusts).”

> "Adolf Hitler was adamant about eventually expropriating all privately-owned companies in one fell swoop. During one of Hitler’s tirades against capitalists and their unearned income, he declared to Albert Speer, his WWII Minister of Armaments and War Production, “One of these days I’ll sweep away this outrage and nationalize all corporations.”

> Near the end of World War II, even Albert Speer worried about a complete government takeover of the private sector in Germany, warning that “a kind of state socialism seemed to be gaining more and more ground, furthered by many of the [Nazi] party functionaries.” He was fearful that Germany’s industry and “war production could easily become the framework for a state-socialist economic order.” This was a legitimate concern that dogged German industrialists since many Nazi party radicals favored “nationalization of industry,” or what was also regarded as “state socialism.”

> "Early on, Hitler had declared war on capitalism, proclaiming during an April 12, 1922, speech, “Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed… We are not fighting Jewish or Christian capitalism, we are fighting very capitalism: we are making the people completely free.”"

> "Hermann Rauschning, an elected Nazi senate leader in the Free City of Danzig, revealed that Hitler promised to seize the property of the bourgeoisie after he took power, declaring, “The expropriation of the property will inevitably follow, as well as the complete abolition of private enterprise.”"

> "Hitler’s hatred of capitalism and admiration for socialism was no secret. He saw himself as a man of little wealth. In a March 27, 1936 speech to Krupp Locomotive factory workers, der Führer lamented, “Whenever I stand up for the German peasant, it is for the sake of the Volk. I have neither ancestral estate nor manor… I believe I am the only statesman in the world who does not have a bank account. I hold no stock, I have no shares in any companies. I do not draw any dividends.”"

> ""In other speeches, Hitler claimed to be a plebeian comrade of little means. He told workers in Berlin, “All my life I have been a ‘have-not.’ At home I was a ‘have-not.’ I regard myself as belonging to them.” A true Marxist could not have been more elegant than Hitler’s assertion of his self-pity and poverty."

> "Hitler repeatedly pledged loyalty to socialism as his guiding light, advocating a collectivistic foundation in his worship of “The common good before the individual good.” In fact, in one speech in 1941, he brazenly proclaimed, “I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.”"

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Like all socialists, Hitler wanted to keep as much of his own money as possible while shaming others for not paying "their fair share".

> "Adolf Hitler spent years evading taxes and owed German authorities 405,000 Reichsmarks —equivalent to $8 million today — by the time his tax debts were forgiven soon after he took power, a researcher said on Friday. Klaus-Dieter Dubon, a retired Bavarian notary and tax expert, said he found Hitler’s tax records in a Munich archive. They show the Nazi dictator battled tax collectors for eight years before becoming chancellor in 1933. “Hitler owed tax but didn’t pay it, full stop,” Dubon told Reuters on Friday. “He was constantly challenging tax office rulings on his income tax between 1925 and 1932, just like a common citizen. After taking power he didn’t pay tax anymore.”"

> "Dubon found that Hitler earned 1.232 million Reichsmarks in 1933 from sales of “Mein Kampf” — his book outlining his doctrine of German racial supremacy and ambitions to annex vast areas of the Soviet Union. He should have paid tax on 600,000 Reichsmarks of that income but didn’t, the researcher found. “The 1.232 million Reichsmarks in income in 1933 is a fascinating number,” said Dubon, 71. “It was a huge income when you consider teachers then had annual salaries of 4,800 marks,” he said. “As chancellor, Hitler only earned 44,000 Reichsmarks in 1933 but told the tax office he donated that to a charity for widows, which he didn’t.”"

> "To lower his taxable income, Hitler resorted to many of the perfectly legal tax avoidance strategies that Germans still use extensively today. He tried to write off his new Mercedes in 1925 as a “company car.” In one exchange with tax collectors Hitler described the car as “only a means to an end.”"

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Fascist: "I agree more with a communist than a capitalist"

> Says main difference between Fascism and Communism is that one is international, the other national.

> Says communist states become "nationalistic" anyway, so amounts to the same thing in the end.

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