re: #217 vitoc

They did indeed have a lot in common, and I think it is reasonable to argue that Hitler had a lot in common with Stalin, more so than with Mussolini. However, if one now jumps up and says “hey, that means that Hitler was a leftist!” think again - Mussolini was stronger influenced by the left than Hitler was. More about this here.

The decisive factor when it comes to the nazis I think is that at the very core of Hitler’s (and of nazi ideology in general) is that they considered the left in general a mortal enemy. One of the “reasons” they hated jews was that they thought that any leftist thinking was essentially jewish.

Fascists hate marxists with a passion.