deletes constitutional protection for private property

If you actually read the text of the February 28 decree, you’d understand that this simply refers to confiscations of property in the interests of national security, specifically ‘against Communist acts of violence endangering the state’. (Notice also how they said ‘Communist acts of violence’ and not ‘capitalist acts of violence’.)

Furthermore:

‘Though the Weimar Republic was destroyed, the Weimar Constitution was never formally abrogated by [Adolf Schicklgruber]. Indeed—and ironically—[Schicklgruber] based the “legality” of his rule on the despised republican constitution. Thus thousands of decreed laws—there were no others in the Third Reich —were explicitly based on the emergency presidential decree of February 28, 1933, for the Protection of the People and the State, which Hindenburg, under Article 48 of the constitution, had signed.’

(Source.)

talks repeatedly about how “the good of the country” should be above any “individual egoism” such as property

This is a gross oversimplification. The Fascists did indeed praise and encourage self‐sacrifice on behalf of the hole, but as I’ve shown elsewhere, individuality still had its place:

‘Numerous press articles on work, relationships, domesticity, or weekend pastimes emphasized that Berliners could survive and even prosper as individuals, provided that they preserved their authentic selves while adapting flexibly to changing circumstances. Affordable clothes, shoes, and cars offered a realm of personal choice, while apartments, suburban homes, and the nearby lakes allowed for temporary relief from metropolitan stress. By promising a blue ribbon to the friendliest salespeople, the 8-Uhr-Abendblatt even pursued the rather optimistic goal of turning Berlin into a “metropolis of politeness” whose consumer society would be attentive to the needs and desires of individuals.’

As Goebbels himself spewed, ‘We have nothing against a refined lifestyle, but everything has its time.

attracts thousands of communists

Their goals were subversive, and the Third Reich’s Red Scare soon suppressed them anyway.

teams up with the only marxist nation at the time in order to invade a neutral country

See here. Also, the other “marxist nation” (heh) in existence was the Mongolian People’s Republic, which, naturally, goes completely unmentioned in the thread.

  • @BenEarlDaMarxist
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    21 year ago

    Basically how I see National Socialism: Fascists from Germany painting themselves red in order to try to appeal to the proletariat and/or the baby leftists. Yeah this take is cringe, least politically illiterate lib-redditor moment