I just mentioned a dude who wrote a near 1200 page book about Stalin and Hitler's relationship who knows more about socialism than you and i combined in 3 lifetimes. In the post you’re quoting. He’s even said Stalin wss far more brutal than Hitler on a personal level.
I’ve also posted things “from the internet” in this thread that mention the Nazi government was run essentially as a socialist government.
Fascism is NOT the opposite of socialism. Most successful fascists run communist/socialist governments and every successful socialist who lasts has been a fascist. There is a reason Mussolini was a socialist before he was a fascist. As are most fascists. They just don’t window-dress communism and see it as a “left-right” spectrum. Chairman Ping is a fascist. He runs the largest communist party in the history of the world.
Life is not a Marvel Movie. Left =\= we care about people and right =\= we want a genocide. There have been more genocides by overtly “communist” dictatorships than one can fathom and you would label a dictator as “far right” in your stupid little binary.
These terms and qualifications you use do not help anyone wrap their heads around what totalitarian power truly is. There were dictators before Communism and “Fascists” came after. If you think you could qualify any leader prior to 1920 within these terms, you are poorly mistaken and human beings, human nature, has not changed an iota. Abraham Lincoln was supremely totalitarian by today’s standards; he was a good man. To say Hitler and Stalin, two supremely evil men, were on some opposite binary to one another because one window-dressed his fascism and the other window-dressed his socialism is lazy, stupid and does further any truth being revealed.
What they both were was totalitarian, and both used the state, its resources, its people, its land, its product to funnel solely into their specific geopolitical, moral and personal goals. What does that sound like?
The only difference between Hitler and Lenin was who they included in their net of worth; one killed Jews the other killed Kulaks.
All of these arguments sympathetic to communism ignore COMMUNISM IN PRACTICE: it is brutal, it is fascistic, it is evil and it is inevitably murderous.
The Nazi Regime demands our farmers produce steel. If I do not, the state will enforce their decision with violence.
The Soviet Regime demands our farmers produce wheat. If I do not, the state will enforce their decision with violence.
One party says "Aryans of the world, Unite"
One party says "Workers of the world, Unite"
There is no difference other than one staunchly hating an ethnicity (based mostly on socio-economic grounds, mind you), and one hating a socio-economic class.
Two vile demons dressed in different outfits and you guys say one isn't wearing a dress because it's red instead of black.