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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More evidence of the Marxist influences behind National Socialism.

> "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. The trouble with Weimar Republic politicians, he told Otto Wagener at much the same time, was that "they had never even read Marx", implying that no one who had failed to read so important an author could even begin to understand the modern world"

> "even in the autobiography he observes that his own doctrine was fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason that it recognised the significance of race - implying, perhaps, that it might otherwise easily look like a derivative."

> "Without race, he went on, National Socialism "would really do nothing more than compete with Marxism on its own ground". Marxism was internationalist. The proletariat, as the famous slogan goes, has no fatherland. Hitler had a fatherland, and it was everything to him."

> "Yet privately, and perhaps even publicly, he conceded that National Socialism was based on Marx. On reflection, it makes consistent sense. The basis of a dogma is not the dogma, much as the foundation of a building is not the building, and in numerous ways National Socialism was based on Marxism. It was a theory of history and not, like liberalism or social democracy, a mere agenda of legislative proposals."

> "Hitler's discovery was that socialism could be national as well as international. There could be a national socialism. That is how he reportedly talked to his fellow Nazi Otto Wagener in the early 1930s. The socialism of the future would lie in "the community of the volk", not in internationalism, he claimed, and his task was to "convert the German volk to socialism without simply killing off the old individualists", meaning the entrepreneurial and managerial classes left from the age of liberalism"

> "They should be used, not destroyed. The state could control, after all, without owning, guided by a single party, the economy could be planned and directed without dispossessing the propertied classes."

> "As for communists, he opposed them because they created mere herds, Soviet-style, without individual life, and his own ideal was "the socialism of nations" rather than the international socialism of Marx and Lenin. The one and only problem of the age, he told Wagener, was to liberate labour and replace the rule of capital over labour with the rule of labour over capital."

> "These are highly socialist sentiments, and if Wagener reports his master faithfully they leave no doubt about the conclusion: that Hitler was an unorthodox Marxist who knew his sources and knew just how unorthodox the way in which he handled them was. He was a dissident socialist... "What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish," he told Wagener, "we shall be in a position to achieve.""

> "On 16 June 1941, five days before Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, Goebbels exulted, in the privacy of his diary, in the victory over Bolshevism that he believed would quickly follow. There would be no restoration of the tsars, he remarked to himself, after Russia had been conquered. But Jewish Bolshevism would be uprooted in Russia and "real socialism" planted in its place - "Der echte Sozialismus". Goebbels was a liar, to be sure, but no one can explain why he would lie to his diaries. And to the end of his days he believed that socialism was what National Socialism was about."

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Fascism is little more than a slight revision of Marxist philosophy while keeping the Marxist economic program.

"Nothing outside the state" (Mussolini's famous phrase) is a call for the abolition of all private property. Private property is "outside the state" and so fascism aims to bring it into the state.

The fascist state (which views itself as God-like and thus omnipotent) tolerates no competition. Private property gives rise to competition in the form of businesses. If businesses grow large, they can pose a challenge to state authority. So fascism is inherently anti-private property and will move to abolish it or otherwise control its use, which is the same thing in the end. If you can't generally do what you want with your own property, minus committing crimes on it, then it's not truly yours.

If the private farmer wants to grow corn, but the fascist state says no you must grow wheat, then you must obey or your farm is seized. When you agree to grow wheat for fear of losing your farm, then the fascist state will tax away most of your profits, leaving you with just enough to live and continue production. This is a clever way of implementing Marx's vision.

Seventy-five percent of the economy is nationalized and the rest is regulated and taxed to such a degree that it's effectively state-run. The business owners and farmers who are left are downgraded to mere managers.

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Hammer and sickle mixed in with the eagle and swazi.

"We're not communists we just worship the "working class" as god, want to abolish private property and socialize the means of production!"

Doesn't sound like a guy on the brink of invading Germany here.

"Stalin refused to believe that Germany would invade in 1941. He dismissed more than a hundred intelligence warnings of the coming invasion as British propaganda, and was caught completely off guard. In the decades that followed the war, the Soviet Union wanted to present itself as a power that stood for peace. It therefore had to deny that it was one of the powers that began the war."

https://www.eurozine.com/when-stalin-was-hitlers-ally/