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Simple proof that Hitler was the opposite of a Communist

Communism: a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole.

Fascism: a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

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No, completely wrong. You see, I found this obscure news article in a British newspaper which quoted some guy who claimed he once knew Hitler, and he says Hitler showed Karl Marx a bit of respect on one occasion when he was drunk. Therefore this cancels out the millions of political executions, the invasion of Russia, the rhetoric of the entire Nazi Party and proves Hitler was a Commie.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html

Hermann Rauschning, for example, a Danzig Nazi who knew Hitler before and after his accession to power in 1933, tells how in private Hitler acknowledged his profound debt to the Marxian tradition. "I have learned a great deal from Marxism" he once remarked, "as I do not hesitate to admit". He was proud of a knowledge of Marxist texts acquired in his student days before the First World War and later in a Bavarian prison, in 1924, after the failure of the Munich putsch. The trouble with Weimar Republic politicians, he told Otto Wagener at much the same time, was that "they had never even read Marx", implying that no one who had failed to read so important an author could even begin to understand the modern world; in consequence, he went on, they imagined that the October revolution in 1917 had been "a private Russian affair", whereas in fact it had changed the whole course of human history! His differences with the communists, he explained, were less ideological than tactical. German communists he had known before he took power, he told Rauschning, thought politics meant talking and writing. They were mere pamphleteers, whereas "I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun", adding revealingly that "the whole of National Socialism" was based on Marx.

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