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Hitler was NOT a Marxist (Original Post) AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 OP
It's an indictment of our education system that this even annabanana Feb 2013 #1
It is sad AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #2
And they make it up as they go along ... and the gullible guppies lap it up. Often makes me wonder RKP5637 Feb 2013 #3
those right wing pundits may KNOW the difference.. They just don't annabanana Feb 2013 #7
+1 freshwest Feb 2013 #17
He claimed to be a socialist. He hated communism ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #4
And he protected private property AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #5
He needed the industrialists behind him when he started. ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #6
In a way AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #10
Corporate Socialism? rdharma Feb 2013 #18
Socialism ..... not what Hitler had in mind..... rdharma Feb 2013 #8
Thanks! AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #11
. rhett o rick Feb 2013 #13
Dude... you are incredible. Do me a favor- cut out the language at the start... stlsaxman Feb 2013 #9
Haha thanks AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #12
Foul Language rdharma Feb 2013 #14
perhaps you need 2 versions dembotoz Feb 2013 #15
Hitler also appointed the owners of industry to head government posts.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #16
Marx was not a Communist formercia Feb 2013 #19
Impressive knowledge zebonaut Feb 2013 #20
I am 15 AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #21
2. It is sad
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 05:49 PM
Feb 2013

This is so true. It is sad that people don't know this as common knowledge and link communism, liberalism and fascism all together. They have all been indoctrinated by right winged pundits who have no idea what they're saying like Limbaugh and Beck.

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
3. And they make it up as they go along ... and the gullible guppies lap it up. Often makes me wonder
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 05:56 PM
Feb 2013

how big a megaphone outright liars should be allowed to have.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
7. those right wing pundits may KNOW the difference.. They just don't
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:16 PM
Feb 2013

care. They know that stringing all those words together just sounds scarier than one at a time.

5. And he protected private property
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:03 PM
Feb 2013

Hitler also protected private property and free enterprise, when it came to the ownership of the means of production, he was clearly a capitalist.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
6. He needed the industrialists behind him when he started.
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:12 PM
Feb 2013

Some argue he was a collectivist for his day and that gets some traction with some.

10. In a way
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:33 PM
Feb 2013

In a way he was as he nationalized only some companies that were not benefiting the state so it is sort of a mix of capitalism and fascism with the means of production. And he, however, never collectivized agriculture, a key component of socialism and fascism. He was a collectivist in the sense of uniting German people against other groups but he fiscally, was really not.

 

rdharma

(6,057 posts)
8. Socialism ..... not what Hitler had in mind.....
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:29 PM
Feb 2013

Damn, this young man NAILS it!

Blows away the "Nazis were leftist socialist" BS!

You go kid! You've got a gift for speech......coupled with historical accuracy!

stlsaxman

(9,236 posts)
9. Dude... you are incredible. Do me a favor- cut out the language at the start...
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:30 PM
Feb 2013

you do an amazing job without it. At first i thought "oh right- another kid who says fuckin' a lot and calls the other party names and thinks he's being- wait a second... this guy sounds like he knows his shit... wow, he DOES!"

Bravo, you! Keep it up.

12. Haha thanks
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:36 PM
Feb 2013

Yeah I just said bullshit because it angers me that people spread this BS and so many people believe it without even researching it. And thanks for enjoying the video!

dembotoz

(16,740 posts)
15. perhaps you need 2 versions
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:10 PM
Feb 2013

1 for a class room setting with footnotes and all
1 for us downtrodden liberals to send to our conservative friends with the message
yes you crazy fuck republicans really donl't know your ass from a hole in the ground

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
16. Hitler also appointed the owners of industry to head government posts....
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 07:50 PM
Feb 2013

He also kept the German aristocracy in place. Lots of land owning Dukes, Barons and Counts in high positions of government and in the command ranks of both the military and the SS.

formercia

(18,479 posts)
19. Marx was not a Communist
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:49 AM
Feb 2013

Putting his image over the Soviet Flag is Ignorant.

Reich-Wankers try to equate Marxism with Soviet Communism, which is Bullshit.

 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
20. Impressive knowledge
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 02:10 PM
Feb 2013

Wow, impressive. I hope Fox news is embarrassed to see a little kid knows a hell of a lot more than the freak they put on the air Mr. Glenn Beck

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