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[–] Hecatonchires 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Well I'm sure you don't. Nationalism is not the same thing as National Socialism.

Hermann Rauschning quoting Hitler :

The difference between them [marxists] and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun. The whole of National Socialism is based on it… National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order

Cliff Kincaid: Leftists find a socialist they don't like

In fact, however, Adolf Hitler's National Socialism was based on Marxism. "In public," notes George Watson, author of The Lost Literature of Socialism, "Hitler was always anti-Marxist...." However, Watson notes that Hitler privately "acknowledged his profound debt to the Marxian tradition" and stated explicitly that "I have learned a great deal from Marxism...." Watson cites the book Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant, by Otto Wagener, who was Hitler's economic advisor.

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[–] 16497716? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Right exactly. So if I were to take that logic of thought. National Socialism is not Socialism? Hermann Rauschning is said to be quoting Hitler. He claimed to have meetings with Hitler. It's said he was "validated" by otto wagener but unless Wagener was there for these conversations i'm not sure how he can Validate it. Also the last one is this guy George Watson(who also quotes Rauschning) who has a theory that Hitler was Marxists. Although Hitler is suggesting a different route, Germany was on the brink of Civil War which in effect divided Germans from united for a single cause. According to Wagener Hitler wanted to unite people without a bloody revolution like what the Marxists did. I'm not sure how this made him a Marxist. Granted I will say there was obvious social practices yet these were Ethnic or racial based social polices rather than the more common Class based socialism. My question to you would be what part of Hitlers National Socialism and to quote you "is a slow march to the killing fields"?