Not sure if the takeaway is more that fascists aren't required to make sense, or that social democratic collaboration with capitalists can be easily weaponized against socialism.

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Not saying that I agree with it, but when the Nazis railed against capitalism it was specifically jews. If you have that context this poster makes more sense.

      Didn't think I'd have to explain that I don't agree with the message of Nazi propaganda on here. Figured that the Jewish banker caricature would give the real message away at a glance.

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The Nazis had a list of enemies that went beyond just the Jews, but they did tend to conflate them. Thus Capitalists = Marxists = Jews = Russians in a lot of Nazi propaganda. The SPD guy's nose in the poster is supposed to indicate that he is a drunken Russian, for example.

        Also, Hitler was furiously anti-Marxist and that's the aspect of the NSDAP that really put them in mainstream politics. Of course, Hitler didn't actually know anything about socialism and had probably never so much as read the Communist Manifesto, but that kind of thing never stopped him.