User blog comment:Weedle McHairybug/Peace doesn't really sound very good to me... (various MG references and real life references ahead)./@comment-77.27.160.189-20121101215138

Let me begin saying I am pro-american and I defend Capitalism, with certain state regulation (I'm a Neokeynesian, myself).

OK, I agree with you that Communism is potentially an agressive ideology. In fact, many of the first people to institutionalize Communism in the Soviet Union (Trotsky, Lenin,...) defended the use of violence, terrorism, and repression of human rights for the "greater good of the proletarian revolution". And this violent version of Communism (Stalinism, Maoism...) caused the deaths of millions of people. That being said, many of the rights and freedoms that workers in western countries have today (social security, pensions, minimal wages, 8-hour work days, the abolition of child labor,..) are also a consecuence of Socialism and Communism. And that is a good thing. And there are communist organizations that are pacifistic. Eurocommunism is an example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocommunism

Even though communism is critical of religion and atheistic in origin, it does not mean it can't be compatible with the right of people "to have a religion or be religious". Again, eurocommunism.

In the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cambodia, Communism was a religion (with their dogmas) and their leaders (Stalin, Mao, Kim Il-Sung/Kim Jong-Il, and Pol Pot) were their "gods" (thanks to the cult of personality).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UZSJ8eVSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40TRJl5vvI

Hitler hated communism. He blamed Communism for the German defeat in World War One. If he included the term Socialism in "National Socialism", it's because it sounded good so as to attract more people to his cause. Not because it sounds the same, does it mean it's the same.

You argue that since both movements were anti-semitic, they are the same. The truth is that in Europe, Jews have always been scapegoats for all the problems of society since the Middle Ages (look at the Spanish Inquisition). Everyone hated Jews. And both Communism and Nazism took advantage of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism