Alain de Benoist - Nazism and Communism: Evil Twins?

[Psychonaut]

"Nazism and Communism: Evil Twins?" by Alain de Benoist

The publication of this Black Book by a group of historians to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the October Revolution has opened a heated debate, first in France and then abroad. Edited by Stéphane Courtois, who also wrote the preface (instead of François Furet, who died a few months before its publication), this work attempts to provide an accurate account of the human cost of communism in view of the documentary evidence available today.

The estimate is around 100 million dead four times the body-count of Nazism. These figures are not really a revelation. From Boris Souvarine to Robert Conquest and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, many authors have dealt with matters such as the Gulag; the famines deliberately provoked by the Kremlin (which in 1921-22 and 1932- 33 killed in the Ukraine five and six million people respectively); the forced deportations, between 1930 and 1953, of seven million people within the Soviet Union (kulaks, Volga Germans, Chechens, Tatars and others from Caucasus); the millions killed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, etc. By comparison, the Black Books figures are rather conservative.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I don't think there is too much debate about this, communism and nazism are both considered as more or less the same thing except by actual communists and nazis.

[Fortis in Arduis]

I don't think there is too much debate about this, communism and nazism are both considered as more or less the same thing except by actual communists and nazis.

Yes, especially by Americans and Dagna woof-woof!

[Pino]

I don't think there is too much debate about this, communism and nazism are both considered as more or less the same thing except by actual communists and nazis.

from the outside it may look like they are the same. When you look from the inside you will see Communism is slavery and Nazism is freedom.

Nazism revolves around the betterment and evoluton of Man, Communism revolves around crippling man to the point where he does not think and can just be thrown in a factory all day.

[Poltergeist]

I don't think there is too much debate about this, communism and nazism are both considered as more or less the same thing except by actual communists and nazis.

Not really. Or maybe it is only so in America?

In Europe, on the other hand, Communism is, officially and in circles of "public intellectuals", considered as legitimate, although its excesses are condemned, whereas Nazism is viewed as beyond contempt. It is possible to gain some acceptance and "respectability" in certain segments of the public space by advocating Communist ideas, whilst the same is not allowed in the case of anything even remotely resembling Nazi ideas (as what "Nazi ideas" mean is often quite arbitrarily determined).

But even official America, although it rhetorically condemns Communism, has no qualms about co-operating with and accepting Eastern European (un)reformed Communists as their partners.

[SwordoftheVistula]

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Actual nazis

In Europe...in circles of "public intellectuals"

Actual commies