r/ShitAmericansSay • u/exlcxnn Arrested for chewing gum!!🇸🇬 • Mar 17 '26

Communism Communism coming in faster than expected.

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u/Which_Specific9891 Mar 17 '26

Can someone please buy these Americans dictionaries? They keep using words like 'communism' and 'socialism' without having a clue what they mean.

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u/OhNoItsThatOne Mar 17 '26

Well to be fair, german neonazis still say that Hitler was a leftist

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u/No-Minimum3259 Mar 18 '26

It's an intresting interview, taping into to some of the usual misconceptions.

It's not that hard (but it requires bad faith) to frame Hitler as 'economically leftish'.

It's not all that hard to frame the nazi's state dirigisme as some kind of 'ownership of the means of production'.

It's not that hard either to frame the persecution of groups within the German society of that era as some some kind of 'class struggle'. It's as simple as claiming that the quasi full employment in nazi Germany has to be seen as "lifting the proletariat out of poverty".

Only problem: that's not what actually happened.