| − | '''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. | + | '''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. However, according to scholar Alain Besançon regarding the different perceptions of the two extremist ideologies:<ref>Arch T. Allen (August 2007). [https://archive.vn/nFftI Nazism and Communism: Twin Evils, Different Memories]. ''Metro Magazine'' via ''Archive.vn''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> |
| − | | + | {{cquote|Our horrified reflection on [[Nazism]] seems to even gain in breadth and depth each year.” On the other hand, [[Communism]], “although still fresh and just recently fallen, benefits from an amnesia and an amnesty that receive the almost unanimous consent, not only of its supporters — because they still exist — but of its most determined enemies, and even its victims.|||Alain Besançon, ''A Century of Horrors''}} |
| − | :“Our horrified reflection on [[Nazism]] seems to even gain in breadth and depth each year.” On the other hand, [[Communism]], “although still fresh and just recently fallen, benefits from an amnesia and an amnesty that receive the almost unanimous consent, not only of its supporters — because they still exist — but of its most determined enemies, and even its victims.” [http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=1397]
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| | Nazis versus Communists is no different from Trotskyists versus Stalinists. Leftism is a worldview that favors collectivism over individualism so they live in this fantasy world where we can agree with each other 100% of the time. According to Ludwig Von Mises, an agnostic Jew who made the Austrian School of Economics founded by Carl Menger in his image, the Nazis followed eight out of ten planks of the [[Communist Manifesto]], except for planks one and three, which called for the abolition of [[private property]] and inheritance rights, although the Nazis did say that they were going to follow all ten planks. Benito Mussolini, whose philosophy was "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, and nothing against the state", was a member of the [[Marxist]] Italian Socialist Party, but during World War I, the pro-war socialists split from the party and formed the Fascist Party. To get to know Mussolini better, you can read The Fascist Manifesto of 1919, written in the Fascist Party newspaper The People by Mussolini himself.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/doc/8765377/Italian-Fascist-Manifesto</ref> For evidence that Hitler was a leftist, read the twenty-five points of the NSDAP program.<ref>https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp</ref> | | Nazis versus Communists is no different from Trotskyists versus Stalinists. Leftism is a worldview that favors collectivism over individualism so they live in this fantasy world where we can agree with each other 100% of the time. According to Ludwig Von Mises, an agnostic Jew who made the Austrian School of Economics founded by Carl Menger in his image, the Nazis followed eight out of ten planks of the [[Communist Manifesto]], except for planks one and three, which called for the abolition of [[private property]] and inheritance rights, although the Nazis did say that they were going to follow all ten planks. Benito Mussolini, whose philosophy was "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, and nothing against the state", was a member of the [[Marxist]] Italian Socialist Party, but during World War I, the pro-war socialists split from the party and formed the Fascist Party. To get to know Mussolini better, you can read The Fascist Manifesto of 1919, written in the Fascist Party newspaper The People by Mussolini himself.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/doc/8765377/Italian-Fascist-Manifesto</ref> For evidence that Hitler was a leftist, read the twenty-five points of the NSDAP program.<ref>https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp</ref> |