Re: Polls show nation in favor of Az..

On 5/25/2010 11:12 AM, Mickey wrote:
"Paul M. Cook"<pmcook@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Those are merely facts...Paul knows the TRUTH!
Indeed I do.

Here is a fine piece on the Nazis and how the right is using the rhetoric of
totalitariansim to frighten small minds. A anyone with a thinking bnrain
knows the Nazis were hard core capitalists tightly linked to big business.
No, they weren't. Paul, you're just making things up. Adolph Hitler
DENOUNCED capitalism.

I have learned a great deal from Marxism, as I do not
hesitate to admit. The difference between them and myself
is that I have really put into practice what these
peddlers and pen-pushers have timidly begun.... I had only
to develop logically what Social Democracy repeatedly
failed in because of its attempt to realize its evolution
within the framework of democracy. National Socialism is
what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its
absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

--Hitler to Rauschning

Quoted in Paul Johnson's _Modern Times_, but for which Johnson cites the Rauschning title _Hitler's Revolution of Destruction_ (London, 1939). Johnson's book contains the following version of the related passage which Rauschning also attributes to Hitler:

"Our socialism reaches much deeper. It does not change the external order of things, it orders solely the relationship of man to the state. .... Then what does property and income count for? Why should we need to socialize the banks and the factories? We are socializing the people."

According to William Shirer, in _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_, Hermann Rauschning was the Nazi party leader in Danzig, in the early thirties I believe, while Hitler was on the rise.

Danzig was then a state in western Poland, subsequently annexed by Germany for benefit of Lebensraum, and which includes the city of Gdansk where Lech Walesa and his Solidarity union were much later to make their successful stand against the Communist bosses. In any case, Rauschning had been friends with Hitler in the early stages, but evidently became disenchanted
in due course, eventually fleeing Germany, having been declared expendable in Hitler's infamous "Black Book", which might be considered a sort of intellectual precursor of Nixon's enemies list. Of course Hitler was a bit more extreme in his prescription for his enemies. Rauschning's disfavor was at least partly a result of his having written these and a few other
books which were highly critical of Hitler.

As for the similarities between Marxism and Nazi ideology, Hitler was not alone in remarking the common lineage. Ernst Thaelmann claimed, in a speech before the Communist central committee in February of 1932, that "the SPD [Social Democratic Party] and NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers Party, i.e. the Nazis] are twins." Of course Thaelmann certainly had political reasons to relegate his opponents into a common category, but the comparison is nonetheless apt in many respects, as Hitler himself clearly admitted. For his part, on tactical grounds at least, Hitler had no use for the Social Democrats. He considered them far too timid to be of any use and unwilling to recognize the logical end of their principles. And while Hitler hated the Communists, who violently opposed his rise to power, he nevertheless evinced considerably respect for their ideological purity and commitment, particularly as compared to the equivocations of the SPD.


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