Communism vs Nazism a love and hate story

National-Socialism and Marxism-Leninism; two political doctrines closely linked to two political regimes that are part of contemporary history. The highly interesting distortions of these two doctrines are worthy of study. Each country within its political spectrum, regardless of its tendency, will always be involved in the two most relevant aspects: communism called socialism or progressivism and Nationalism, Nazism, Fascism or the currently called ultra-right.

After the Second World War, the powerful propaganda machine of the USSR made possible the almost total disappearance of the term National-Socialism, transforming it into “German fascism”, thus Hitler's National-Socialism had never existed! What Mussolini would have enjoyed in his vanity of having survived…! The explanation for this paradox - or rather, nonsense - is based on 1) It could not be tolerated in any way that the word "Socialism" appeared associated with "Nazism". 2) It was convenient to unify the enemies of Communism (USSR) into a single enemy, in order to better combat it.

Furthermore, the powerful Soviet propaganda machine makes more than half the world believe after World War II that authentic Marxist socialism resides in the USSR, while the existing social democratic parties in Western countries represent a "sugarcoat" socialism. However, neither Lenin nor his Bolshevik party was admitted to the International.

And although the Communists led by Stalin and the Nazis led by Hitler defend their parties as unique, reality and history confirm they have more than close ties to each other. This theory is supported by the doctrines of National Socialism that in its entrails have socialist roots as its name says and which they took from the nascent communist party created by Lenin in the revolution of 1917.

This is easy to verify by doing an analysis of the propaganda of the parties in the years between the two world wars, in these are reflected many of the common ideals that have the same objective, to subdue the people.

According to Ronald J. Granieri director of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and director of research at the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute, this argument is false. According to Granieri, although the Nazis pursued a level of government intervention in the economy that would shock free-market doctrinaires, their "socialism" was, at best, a secondary element of their appeal. In fact, most supporters of Nazism embraced the party precisely because they saw it as an enemy and an alternative to the political left. A closer look at the connection between Nazism and socialism can help us better understand both ideologies in their historical contexts and their importance for contemporary politics.

But personally, I do not agree with Granieri since the Nazi regime did have to do with socialism since I did include prominently in the name of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler onwards wrestled with the political problems of having socialism in the name of the party.

In the same way, both sides use the same principles to preserve power, a strong hand, forced disappearances, violence, massacres, racism and genocide to exterminate the weakest.