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Posted 22 January 2004 - 09:06 PM
I have found a Nazi poster ... that depicts a strong nazi fist holding a snake.... the snake has high-finance and marxism written on it ..
i understand why it has high finance but when i came to look up marxism ... it says :
"the first was that they believed communism denied people free speech and imposed a form of dictatorship."
- is this true.... becuase if so... why were the nazis against dictatoships?
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Posted 22 January 2004 - 10:12 PM
Ahhh....... the Nazis weren't against dictatorship, but what they vehemently opposed was Marxism/Communism.
Marxists believed in the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (=working classes), whereas Nazis believed in the dictatorship of one Party (=Nazis) and not of a social class. Indeed, in some ways the Nazis aimed to create a classless Germany.
The Nazis hated the Marxists/Communists for a number of reasons:
* In the early 1930s the German Communist Party presented the greatest political threat to the Nazis. Support for the Communist Party was growing and the Nazis feared this - particularly after the November 1932 election.
* For the Nazis, Marxism was inextricably connected with the Jews. Indeed they invariably referred to 'Jewish Bolshevism' (Bolsheviks followed Marx's ideas) since Marx was born a Jew (though he didn't practice the faith) and a number of leading Russian and German Communist politicians were Jewish.
* For the Nazis Jews were also linked with capitalism and 'high finance' - relying on the stereotypical view of Jews as international bankers.
You can perhaps see how the Nazis anti-semitism is thus both linked by these two criticisms and attacks - and also how contradictory it is at the same time?
I have only a vague recollection of the poster you are referring to but I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't also Stars of David (Jewish symbol) on the snake - ramming home the message to Germans at the time that Jews were both Marxists and 'High Financiers' and thus presented a great threat - which the Nazis would destroy.
I don't suppose I need to point out, do I, that stereotyping a whole people in this way is a nonsense.
Marxists believed in the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (=working classes), whereas Nazis believed in the dictatorship of one Party (=Nazis) and not of a social class. Indeed, in some ways the Nazis aimed to create a classless Germany.
The Nazis hated the Marxists/Communists for a number of reasons:
* In the early 1930s the German Communist Party presented the greatest political threat to the Nazis. Support for the Communist Party was growing and the Nazis feared this - particularly after the November 1932 election.
* For the Nazis, Marxism was inextricably connected with the Jews. Indeed they invariably referred to 'Jewish Bolshevism' (Bolsheviks followed Marx's ideas) since Marx was born a Jew (though he didn't practice the faith) and a number of leading Russian and German Communist politicians were Jewish.
* For the Nazis Jews were also linked with capitalism and 'high finance' - relying on the stereotypical view of Jews as international bankers.
You can perhaps see how the Nazis anti-semitism is thus both linked by these two criticisms and attacks - and also how contradictory it is at the same time?
I have only a vague recollection of the poster you are referring to but I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't also Stars of David (Jewish symbol) on the snake - ramming home the message to Germans at the time that Jews were both Marxists and 'High Financiers' and thus presented a great threat - which the Nazis would destroy.
I don't suppose I need to point out, do I, that stereotyping a whole people in this way is a nonsense.
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