yeah, i did read the 25 mission statements of the nazis. it sounded very similar to many socialist party statements that i also read. the only difference i really saw was that nazis wanted it kept to national boundaries (although invading other countries certainly made it seem like an international agenda) and socialists seem to want it as an international program.
as for the claim that socialism promotes tolerance while national socialism promotes intolerance, it just seems a little, well, wrong. from what i've seen, they both promote intolerance. while hitler and his crew promoted hatred of jews and many christians, marx and his friends also promoted hatred of all religions. wasn't it marx who wrote that one article "a world without jews"? in it, if i read correctly, he seems to blame the religious as one of the many roots of the people's problems and says that all religion needs to be abolished. doesn't this smack of how hitler blamed the jews for the germans' problems? the more i compare the two, the more similar they seem. perhaps communism and national socialism did truly hate each other. but if they did, was it really because they were opposites, or was it because they were both fighting for the same spot?
-j

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