I know Marx was German. What does that have to do with Hitler’s beliefs?
The
political views of Adolf Hitler have presented historians and biographers with some difficulty. His writings and methods were often adapted to need and circumstance, although there were some steady themes, including
antisemitism,
anti-communism,
anti-parliamentarianism, German
Lebensraum ("living space"), belief in the superiority of an "
Aryan race" and an extreme form of
German nationalism. Hitler personally claimed he was fighting against "
Jewish Marxism".
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Keep spinning and defending your precious socialism. It's your religion so I understand however the name Nazi is a contraction of the full party name,
National Socialist German Workers' Party(Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP). Nazism, in short, is simply one of several varieties of
socialism. As a political party it controlled Germany from 1933-1945 under
Adolf Hitler, resulting in
World War II and a campaign of mostly anti-
Jewishand
racist politics, resulting in
genocide (see the
Holocaust).
Supporters of
Communism, or of
socialism in general, like to pretend that Nazism was not socialist but "
right wing", for similar reasons to why
fascism is often associated with the right wing despite being left wing. Despite this, however, it featured enough similarities with Communism that they were in fact closer to the
far left, even including anti-Semitism, which Karl Marx had advocated. It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the
Communists as
leftist and the Nazis as
rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But
Ludwig von Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. "The German and
Russiansystems of socialism have in common the fact that the
big government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer's goods for his consumption."