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[[File:Ulbricht and Goebbels 1931.png|thumb|right|310px|[[Walter Ulbricht]] speaking at a joint Nazi–Communist meeting in 1931; Goebbels is seated at the front left.]]

[[File:Ulbricht and Goebbels 1931.png|thumb|right|310px|[[Walter Ulbricht]] speaking at a joint Nazi–Communist meeting in 1931; Goebbels is seated at the front left.]]

[[File:Nazi Communist picket 1932.jpg|thumb|right|360px|A Nazi NSBO member (left) and Communist RGO member (right) jointly picketing during the [[Berlin transport strike]], organized by Ulbricht and Goebbels.]]

[[File:Nazi Communist picket 1932.jpg|thumb|right|360px|A Nazi NSBO member (left) and Communist RGO member (right) jointly picketing during the [[Berlin transport strike]], organized by Ulbricht and Goebbels.]]

'''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. However, according to scholar Alain Besançon regarding the general different perceptions of the two extremist ideologies:<ref name=twinevils>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>

'''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. However, according to scholar Alain Besançon regarding the general different perceptions of the two extremist ideologies:<ref name=twinevils>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''}}

{{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''}}

Nazis vs. Communists is barely any different from Trotskyists vs. Stalinists.  Leftism is a worldview that favors collectivism over individualism, where they live in a fantasy world where of 100% agreement among individuals.  According to [[Ludwig von Mises]], a renowned economist and historian 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 understand the ideology of Mussolini and Italian Fascism better, one can examine 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 Italian Fascist Manifesto]. ''Scribd''.</ref> For evidence that Hitler was a leftist, the twenty-five points of the NSDAP program provide firsthand primary source evidence.<ref>[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 1708-PS]. ''Lillian Goldman Law Library''.</ref>   

Nazis vs. Communists is barely any different from Trotskyists vs. Stalinists.  Leftism is a worldview that favors collectivism over individualism, where they live in a fantasy world where of 100% agreement among individuals.  According to [[Ludwig von Mises]], a renowned economist and historian 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 understand the ideology of Mussolini and Italian Fascism better, one can examine 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 Italian Fascist Manifesto]. ''Scribd''.</ref> For evidence that Hitler was a leftist, the twenty-five points of the NSDAP program provide firsthand primary source evidence.<ref>[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 1708-PS]. ''Lillian Goldman Law Library''.</ref>   

 

The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who headed the Marxist faction of the Nazi Party, stated, "We really are Communists. That is why we call ourselves a ‘worker’s party’."{{fact}}  He also wrote a letter to the ''[[New York Times]]'' titled "Hitlerite Riot" in Berlin on November 28, 1925, shortly after Lenin died saying, "On the speaker’s assertion that Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight."<ref>[https://libquotes.com/joseph-goebbels/quote/lbl7j6n Quote in The New York Times, Hitlerite Riot in Berlin: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler to Lenin, November 28, 1925 (Goebbels' speech Nov. 27, 1925)]</ref>  The difference he was referring to was Nazism's opposition to internationalism, something that Hitler believed was un-German.  Communism in theory is internationalist, but in reality, it is nationalist.  Except for international socialists Lenin and his right-hand man Leon Trotsky, all other Communist heads of state were nationalistic socialists because nationalism helped them promote loyalty to their government/state.  That is why nationalism and socialism are allies, not rivals, and also defines the difference between Trotskyism, which is internationalist, and Stalinism, which is patriotic and has the idea of socialism in one country.  In addition, the Nazi flag's predominantly red color was due to them being reused from the red flags of the Communist Party of Germany.

The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who headed the Marxist faction of the Nazi Party, stated, "We really are Communists. That is why we call ourselves a ‘worker’s party’."{{fact}}  He also wrote a letter to the ''[[New York Times]]'' titled "Hitlerite Riot" in Berlin on November 28, 1925, shortly after Lenin died saying, "On the speaker’s assertion that Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight."<ref>[https://libquotes.com/joseph-goebbels/quote/lbl7j6n Quote in The New York Times, Hitlerite Riot in Berlin: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler to Lenin, November 28, 1925 (Goebbels' speech Nov. 27, 1925)]</ref>  The difference he was referring to was Nazism's opposition to internationalism, something that Hitler believed was un-German.  Communism in theory is internationalist, but in reality, it is nationalist.  Except for international socialists Lenin and his right-hand man Leon Trotsky, all other Communist heads of state were nationalistic socialists because nationalism helped them promote loyalty to their government/state.  That is why nationalism and socialism are allies, not rivals, and also defines the difference between Trotskyism, which is internationalist, and Stalinism, which is patriotic and has the idea of socialism in one country.  In addition, the Nazi flag's predominantly red color was due to them being reused from the red flags of the Communist Party of Germany.

 

Although Communists insist that they are anti-Nazi, during the 1932 [[Berlin transport strike]], their paramilitary and working-class forces formed an alliance with that of Nazis,<ref name=suvorov>[[Viktor Suvorov|Suvorov, Viktor]] (2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Chief_Culprit/EYA4AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT15&printsec=frontcover The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> often holding hands and resisting police officers side-by-side.<ref name=clrjames>James, C. L. R. (1937). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_Revolution_1917_1936/NXMtDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT344&printsec=frontcover World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> The strike carried the effect of drawing working-class blocs in Berlin, which usually supported the Social Democratic Party (SPD), towards the Communist Party, in the November election (the SPD leadership denounced the strike).<ref>Seton-Watson, Hugh (1953). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Pattern_of_Communist_Revolution/-DJVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT113&printsec=frontcover The Pattern of Communist Revolution: An Historical Analysis]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> The Social Democrats lost their coalition control of the Weimar government, and the Nazis soon harassed and intimidated their way to power.<ref>Moncure, Billy (September 28, 2018). [https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/communists-allied-with-nazis.html How Communists in Germany Allied with Nazis to Destroy Democracy]. ''War History Online''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> In the wake of the transport strike, the bourgeois-aligned press designated the Nazis, who participated in the strike and picketing alongside the Communists, as "Bolsheviks."<ref>Bullock, Alan (1962). [https://archive.org/details/hitlerstudyintyr0000bull Hitler: A Study in Tyranny], pp. 229–32. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref><ref>McKenzie, John Richard Philip (1971). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Weimar_Germany_1918_1933/6RFoAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=nazis+transport+strike+bolsheviks+bourgeoisie&dq=nazis+transport+strike+bolsheviks+bourgeoisie&printsec=frontcover Weimar Germany, 1918-1933], p. 238. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref>

Although Communists insist that they are anti-Nazi, during the 1932 [[Berlin transport strike]], their paramilitary and working-class forces formed an alliance with that of Nazis,<ref name=suvorov>[[Viktor Suvorov|Suvorov, Viktor]] (2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Chief_Culprit/EYA4AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT15&printsec=frontcover The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> often holding hands and resisting police officers side-by-side.<ref name=clrjames>James, C. L. R. (1937). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_Revolution_1917_1936/NXMtDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT344&printsec=frontcover World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> The strike carried the effect of drawing working-class blocs in Berlin, which usually supported the Social Democratic Party (SPD), towards the Communist Party, in the November election (the SPD leadership denounced the strike).<ref>Seton-Watson, Hugh (1953). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Pattern_of_Communist_Revolution/-DJVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nazi+communist+transport+strike&pg=PT113&printsec=frontcover The Pattern of Communist Revolution: An Historical Analysis]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> The Social Democrats lost their coalition control of the Weimar government, and the Nazis soon harassed and intimidated their way to power.<ref>Moncure, Billy (September 28, 2018). [https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/communists-allied-with-nazis.html How Communists in Germany Allied with Nazis to Destroy Democracy]. ''War History Online''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref> In the wake of the transport strike, the bourgeois-aligned press designated the Nazis, who participated in the strike and picketing alongside the Communists, as "Bolsheviks."<ref>Bullock, Alan (1962). [https://archive.org/details/hitlerstudyintyr0000bull Hitler: A Study in Tyranny], pp. 229–32. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref><ref>McKenzie, John Richard Philip (1971). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Weimar_Germany_1918_1933/6RFoAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=nazis+transport+strike+bolsheviks+bourgeoisie&dq=nazis+transport+strike+bolsheviks+bourgeoisie&printsec=frontcover Weimar Germany, 1918-1933], p. 238. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref>