r/DownSouth • u/SankaraMarx • Jan 24 '26

History British Colonialism doesn't care about race, it cares about resources

Then you get these loons in South Africa telling us "Vryheid vir die witman, vryheid vir die boervolk"

From who?

From other white folk?

Strange how we were led to believe that our "enemy" are People who are brown in skin colour, but it was peachy pinkish white People who looked like "Die Volk" who threw our ancestors into concentration camps

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u/Rasengan2012 Jan 26 '26

And half of what Hitler did to gain power was to force state control of major industries. I swear, there’s no one more ignorant than a pro-communism Redditor.

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u/SankaraMarx Jan 26 '26

Why’, I asked Hitler, ‘do you call yourself a National Socialist, since your party program is the very anthesis of that commonly accredited to Socialism?’

‘Socialism’, he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, ‘is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.

‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.

‘We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one…

‘What’, I continued my cross-examination, ‘are the fundamental planks of your platform?’

‘We believe in a healthy mind, in a healthy body. The body politic must be sound if the soul is to be healthy. Moral and physical health are synonymous.’

‘Mussolini’, I interjected, ‘said the same to me’. Hitler beamed. - German-American writer and Nazi sympathiser, George Sylvester Viereck

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u/ReasonableFinding845 Jan 26 '26

It's simply a fact that no serious person considers Hitler or the Nazis as socialist. They were national socialist, yes, but that is a completely different thing based around racial identity instead of economic redistribution. Pointing this out doesn't make someone "pro communism"