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Hasn’t Musk himself quoted Niemollers famous “first they came for the communists…” speech?

Does he know what it’s about and how it reflects the Nazi’s purges of leftists to make way for fascism

Anyone who calls Hitler a communist has no idea what they’re talking about. Or they are hoping you don’t. Elon is stupid but he’s not that stupid. 

I will have to look but I swear I’ve seen him quote this famous line which itself highlights how leftists were the principle enemy to the Nazis and the first ones jailed and killed.
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The Nazi's are socialists right? It's in the name. /s

Blackshirts and Reds is a great book about the rise of Fascism, and how totally NOT communist the Nazi's were.

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Right. I haven’t read it but I’ve seen a handful of excerpts and quotes and I’ve seen it summarized in a number of debates on this very subject. Plus I aced high school social studies, which, while full of propaganda, somehow still didn’t try to pull that particular blatant lie.

The word “fascist” was coined by Mussolini years after the Nazi party had formed. By then they had a brand name and stuck with it.

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Right. I’ve also read that National Socialism was a ploy to parlay the popularity of socialist policies to populists. Back then using the name was effective but nowadays it would evoke fear in right wing populists even if they still long for socialist and syndicalist policies to this day.

Agreed.

I’ve written a number of posts looking at the history and meaning of oft-used political identifiers, in the hopes of demystifying this stuff. 

In “All Together Now,” I talked about the definition of anarchism with reference to the writing of Noam Chomsky and collectivist anarchist watch makers in Switzerland.

In “Whose Left Is It Anyway?” I talked about the left origins of libertarianism and how it correlates to crypto.

In “Punks in Space” I connected the dots from DIY punk rockers to solarpunks, lunarpunks, and more.

In “Pillars of Support,” I reflected on Kropotkin’s research into mutual aid in the animal kingdom and how it might correlate to web3.

In “Greener Pastures” I discussed solarpunk’s anarchist roots and paraphrased the goals of the degrowth and accelerationist movements.

And in “Tales from the Mushroom Commune,” I compared fungi to DAOs and discussed so-called “venture communism.”

Socialism is a word that, in general, I’ll demand someone define before using it in an argument because it’s so misused that it is meaningless.