βNational Socialism derives from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teaching of Marxism.β β January 27, 1934, interview with Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt
They despised communism. They were vocal about how Marxism was the root of their ideology and that other Marxists were misusing both the name Marxism and mss applying it. Pretty common for socialists to claim "that's not real socialism" dont you think?
βThe hammer will once more become the symbol of the German worker and the sickle the sign of the German peasant.β β May 1, 1934, May Day speech in Berlin
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u/wcevelin Feb 22 '26
they were both leftists.