Against false dichotomies: communism and national-socialism are the same scum

@ElentirENG ES 9·01·2024 · 6:05 0

Today, September 1, is the anniversary of the beginning of the German invasion of Poland in 1939. An invasion with a prior alliance.

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That alliance was embodied in the German-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1936, by which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union became allies, an alliance that lasted until the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941. In the 20 years that I have been writing this blog, I have insisted many times on one fact: Communism and National Socialism are totalitarian and criminal movements, enemies of freedom and democracy, radically anti-Christian and, therefore, opposed to Western culture, whose roots are Judeo-Christian.

Led by historical ignorance or propaganda, many people think that if you reject communism you are a nazi and that if you reject nazism you are a friend of communists, as if there were some incompatibility in clearly and roundly rejecting these two totalitarian movements. The reality is that both movements are franchises of socialism: communism is an internationalist socialism and national-socialism, as its name indicates, is a nationalist socialism. Both share their statism, their rejection of liberal democracy and the free market.

On the other hand, both movements profess hatred of a part of society as a political banner, within the purest tradition of socialism. Communism professes class hatred and national-socialism promotes racial hatred. In both cases, it is a hatred born of envy. An envy that has common elements. Let us remember that Karl Marx wrote a pamphlet against the Jews in 1844, a pamphlet that any nazi could sign.

Both communism and national-socialism seek to solve all of society's problems by criminalizing millions of people simply because they are considered to be better off than others. That is why the nazis have always portrayed Jews as people greedy for wealth.

Furthermore, both movements justify violence for political purposes and have committed countless crimes. That is why both totalitarian movements deserve to be labeled equally as criminals. Some claim that communism is worse than nazism because it killed more people, but we must remember that communism dominated more countries for a longer period of time, including the mainland of the most populous country in the world: China. Had nazism had such a hold, the result would have been very similar in numbers, given the atrocities committed by the nazis in the countries invaded by Germany in World War II.

Therefore, we must reject false dichotomies: it is coherent to reject communism and national-socialism equally, especially when we are talking about people who consider themselves Christians, lovers of freedom and democracy and defenders of human rights. Today, the rejection of nazism is very widespread, fortunately (and especially because of Germany's defeat in the World War II), but the rejection of communism remains an unresolved issue, especially among the political left.

Three years ago in Spain we saw a party that calls itself social-democrat, the PSOE, refusing to condemn the crimes of genocide committed by communism and calling communists "freedom fighters." Things like this should be rejected with the same repulsion that Holocaust denial provokes, because we are talking about a totalitarian movement, communism, which has killed more than 100 million people.