No one fought the Communists harder than the Fascists, in Spain, in Germany, in Italy, on the Eastern Front. This while the Liberal Democracies of the West were supplying the Soviet Union with the Lend-Lease program.
Saying that Communists and Nazi-fascists are enemies just because they fought each other is silly.
They were enemies precisely because they were fighting the same enemy (Capitalism). If you've read Mein Kampf perhaps you will remember that he said the only genuine or acceptable manner of implementing real socialism was the Nazi manner.
It depends on how you define "Left Wing" and "Right Wing". National Socialism IS Socialism, and might be considered left wing economically, but socially it's far right.
Not true. Nazi-Fascism is indeed reactionary, but like nationalism, reactionism is found on both ends of the political spectrum.
In fact, I'd argue that all Communists (and all authoritarian ideologies) are reactionary. Any movement that pushes toward centralizing power in the hands of an authoritarian minority is reactionary. As all communists, in praxis, seek a powerful state administered by one of their own, they are by definition reactionary. Socially, reactionaries are adverse to change, obviously, but that doesn't equate reactionism right-wing social principles (i.e. Conservatism).
Because, really, if you think Conservatives are reactionaries you should read more Conservative authors.
No it isn't. That doesn't even make sense. It's like saying the Protestant work ethic is Marxism.
And if you've read Mein Kampf you will understand what Hitler thought of Marxism. Anti-Semitism has a long history among dozens of nations in which the Jews have lived, they didn't need Karl Marx's permission to dislike the Jews. If you can list a single source from Hitler, Himmler, Rosenberg, Goebbels, Hess, or any other high ranking member of the NSDAP that positively references Karl Marx, please do so.
Oh, I did read Mein Kampf. And also did read Marx's letters to Engels and some of his other works (not everything, because Marx was a mediocre writer and his sanctimonious rhetoric is as annoying as the carbuncles on his butt).
Please, tell me who is the author of those quotes:
"What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need, egoism. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money."
"Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. [...] The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange."
"Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money."
"Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading."
The author even proposes a "final solution" by abolishing Judaism: "Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism – huckstering and its preconditions – the Jew will have become impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and because the conflict between man's individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished."
Do they sound like something coming from Hitler's mouth? Think again, because all of those loathsome quotes were taken from
(SPOILER ALERT!) Marx's "On the Jewish Question" (1843).
They have directly influenced Hitler's works. In fact, he uses the same disgusting rhetoric as Marx in Mein Kampf and, just like Marx, he blames both Capitalism and Judaism as the root of all evil in the World.
"Fascists advocated the conflict between proletarian nations and bourgeois nations." dafuq?
Hold on, wait a minute. You've never, ever heard about this!? I mean, for real?? :eek: Holy shit!
The concept of proletarian nations vs bourgeois nations was essential to Fascism and Nazism and was heavily influenced by the writings of Italian philosopher and economist Vilfred Pareto, a staunch critic of capitalism (and a reactionary to the core).
Mussolini frequently denounced bourgeois nations as those "based on the plutocratic rule of the rich and that engaged in oppressive economic exploitation of other proletarian nations such Italy and Great Britain". He referred especially to the United Kingdom as "the fattest and most bourgeois nation in the world".