re: #52 CuriousLurker

I’m still trying to figure out how if, as the wingnuts claim, the Nazis were leftists (because of the name “National Socialists”), they why would they fight with other leftists? And if we’re going by names alone, then North Korea must be a democracy just like East Germany was, right? These people are TOO stupid.

That part I can answer: The Nazis of 1919 (as opposed to a couple years later when Hitler had taken over the party) actually did want most of what is now called ‘socialism’ but they wanted for Germans. They still saw themselves as Germans first.

German Communists of the same time period wanted, to use Trotsky’s words, “nothing short of World Revolution!”. They wanted to eliminate the nation state and establish a Communist world order. As such they considered their first loyalty to communism instead of to Germany. It was in large part on that basis that Freikorps and the German army considered them to be traitors.