Smitty-48 wrote:National Socialism was a concept unto itself, but while formally Anti-Marxist, it was none the less de facto state run centrally planned dictatorial totalitarian collectivism, what the Nazis rejected about Marxism, was the concept of class struggle, Nazism agreed with Marx as to the problems, and even the solutions, what they rejected though, was that it was a question of class, National Socialism asserts that there are no classes, only races, and class is merely a function of race.Speaker to Animals wrote: I'd argue that fascism (as a national socialist concept) is inherently anti-Marxist.
In essence, the Nazis are simply racialized communists rather than classist Communists. Again, the means were the same, it was simply the objective end state which was different.
The Communist Utopia is all races living together in harmony as one class, the Nazi Utopia is all classes living together in harmony as one race.
any examples of this? I'm woefully unfamiliar with the way NatSoc worked. I'm familiar with the Weimar Republic and the Revolution leading to the NDSAP, the wartime command economy and such but it seems like pre War Third Reich is a mystery to me.
Do you think it may have looked different if it weren't for the War? I think the War was a function of the NDSAP really.