1) Radicality of a program is not a proper criteria for defining communists.wm wrote:The German Social-Democrats were a part of the Labour and Socialist International. And its program was so radical its members could be called without any exaggeration communists today.
2) Calling people who lived 80 years ago communists because today they meet someone's standards for communists is incorrect.
Of course there are evolutions of political parties and programs in time and there are differences among communist parties and programs at a particular time but trying to input different types of communists is incorrect.wm wrote:Even the communists weren't the communists we know today.
A label doesn't make a fact regardless of who is its author.wm wrote:The father of fascism, Mussolini called the Soviet communism a kind of Slavonic fascism.
The nazis favoured big private companies because their rise to power was financed by them. In Auschwitz, they made business with big private companies, supplying labour to them, and with a small family-owned company, buying crematorium ovens from it. None of these companies was forced to do business they did.wm wrote:The Nazis favored big enterprises for the same reason the Soviet Block favoured big enterprises - because they were big and according to them useful, not because they were privately owned. In the Nazi Germany enterprises were tightly regulated and controlled by the State too.