Ultimately Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were all socialists. Most people use "communism" to mean "Marxist socialism", which matches the USSR and differs in one tiny way from the NSDAP, but certainly if we say "socialist" instead then we're 99% there.
That difference is literally just how the social group is defined. "Fascism" is Mussolini's socialism of the Italian nation. "Nazism" is Hitler's socialism of the Aryan race. "Communism" is Stalin's socialism of the working class.
Aside from choosing different groups to revere, all of them follow the same playbook. Everything one does has to be for the greater good of the collective, and to do anything else is to steal from the collective. That's the sense in which Hitler matched Stalin, and why calling Hitler communist is pretty close but better to go with socialist.
This also exposes the reason why Marxist socialism hates the fuck out of other socialisms, it's because they actually recognise their borders, whereas the Marxists identify "the working class" as a global collective only. They even go so far as to call it capitalism despite private individuals (the "capita") not owning property.
Now that I think about it, relative to communism, it sort of is that. Under Marxist socialism, it cannot be that Deutschland looks after only its own workers, and not the workers of the world!
SithEmpire 0 points 5 months ago
Close, but way for them to confuse matters!
Ultimately Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were all socialists. Most people use "communism" to mean "Marxist socialism", which matches the USSR and differs in one tiny way from the NSDAP, but certainly if we say "socialist" instead then we're 99% there.
That difference is literally just how the social group is defined. "Fascism" is Mussolini's socialism of the Italian nation. "Nazism" is Hitler's socialism of the Aryan race. "Communism" is Stalin's socialism of the working class.
Aside from choosing different groups to revere, all of them follow the same playbook. Everything one does has to be for the greater good of the collective, and to do anything else is to steal from the collective. That's the sense in which Hitler matched Stalin, and why calling Hitler communist is pretty close but better to go with socialist.
This also exposes the reason why Marxist socialism hates the fuck out of other socialisms, it's because they actually recognise their borders, whereas the Marxists identify "the working class" as a global collective only. They even go so far as to call it capitalism despite private individuals (the "capita") not owning property.
Now that I think about it, relative to communism, it sort of is that. Under Marxist socialism, it cannot be that Deutschland looks after only its own workers, and not the workers of the world!