
Originally Posted by
Trajan
Uh, no.
Hitler wasn't a big fan of Marx.
Stalin was shocked because he thought he had a few more years.
Hitler was not a fan of communism, however the "National Socialist German Workers Party" was left wing. Ironically it was patterned after Mussolini's fascist government which was right wing. Ernst Rohm was the most ardent "socialist" of the NSDAP and saw commonality with the USSR. For this and other reasons he was disposed of when the time came.
There is a lot of confusion because at the two extremes, statist governments have more in common with each other than anything in the middle. The NSDAP roots in the Freikorp is what put it at odds with Marxist communism as they were the two competing factions for power in Germany.
From wiki:
The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although such aspects were later downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities, and in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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