Why did Hitler hate Communists & Marxists? Aren't Nazism & Socialism distinctions without any real difference?

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Why did Hitler hate Communists & Marxists? Aren't Nazism & Socialism distinctions without any real difference?

Answer 1

Somebody's been going in and giving bad ratings to correct answers.

Nazism and Socialism (Communism) are essentially different.  n***s believed in free enterprise.  During WWII, Ford and GM plants continued operating in Germany, such that these firms later sued the US for bombing damage of their factories.  Also, many claim the n***s worked with subsiduaries of IBM.  There were some Socialist elements in the n**i party, but Hitler expunged these early in his reign.

Communists, however, DON'T believe in free enterprise.  All companies belong to the state.  All services are run by the state.

You can't even own a house privately - all property belongs to the state.

n***s and Socialists (I think you mean Communists) were similar only because they both believe in a strong central government, or dictatorship.

Answer 2

Fascism is corporate control by the state whereas communism was supposed to be control by workers committees or soviets but too often ended up going the same way as fascism.

Hitler hated communism because it was after the same power base as he was just like catholics hate protestants because they compete for the same market share.

Answer 3

Basically they were his political opponents during his rise to power.

Answer 4

There are some economic and political distinctions.  But they were basically rivals for the same thing, the control of humanity.

Communism (state enforced communalism), and Marxism (the critique of capitalism) both operate on a false premise: the economic determination of human behaviour.  People are not mindless automatons driven by the material forces in society.

National Socialism (n**i) has socialism as an economic base, but emphasized 'nationalism' love or identity with the state, some free will of the populace (the n***s were really big on 'Will'); and a tolerance for capitalism.  The communists had no tolerance for any of this.

History has proven that Communism was far worse than Nazism, and Stalin a bigger mass murderer than Hitler.

Answer 5

No they are very different ideologies.

Nazism has an explicit racial element to it - the idea of the 'volk' - this married to the idea of other peoples being subhuman - untermensch makes Nazism a vile bigoted murderous regime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

Marxism is about the ownership of the means of production - and the fairer distribution of resources (in theory).

http://www.marxists.org/subject/students...

Soviet Communism was based on Marxism, but had been distorted by the problems of trying to implement it in such a huge and culturally diverse county.

Soviet communism was a system based on the ideas of political control and a build up of heavy industry

http://www.marxists.org/subject/stalinis...

Despite what non-historians and non-sovietologists say Stalin did not murder more than Hitler - Stalin's death toll is currently put at 2.5 million according to their own meticulous records.

see:J Arch Getty & Oleg Naumov: The Road To Terror

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

Edit:

In Soviet Union - yes the State owns the means of production, but Nazism & fascism are totally capitalist ideologies - they both believe that private business should help run the state (this is called corporatism)

Answer 6

In its simplest form, Socialism is the government owning everything and the people all working in a near slave state to keep the government going.  The government then "gives" the people what it thinks that they need regardless of whether they earned it or not.  Fascism is a Capitalist system where the government owns most of the businesses on a "for profit" basis and that money goes to run the government, army etc.