Marx and Hitler: ideological comparison

Marx & Hitler

The easiest way to explain the concept of dialectic would probably be as change, movement reversal. All these would in turn lead to the upset of a current system and its reversal and transformation into a different one. Understanding the concept of dialectic would help someone understand the Communist Manifesto because Communism is all about completely changing the natural and social order of the society, while the Communist Manifesto was the introductory material that put the theoretical basis for this and set everything in motion.

The aim of a Communist would have been, at least reportedly in its incipient stages and up to the actual implementation of the Communist in one country notion and Stalin, to reverse the existing social order and place all means of production in the hands of the proletariat. Politically, leadership would be ensured by a dictatorship of the proletariat, which would regulate all the economic inputs and outputs, set the society norms etc. The final goal would have been a society with no social or economic classes to differentiate individuals. Since this would have been a complete reversal of existing status, Dialectic would have made the concept of huge change easier to understand in time.

It is quite simple to show why the concept gained so much support later on. The Industrial Revolution was already reaching its peak during that point and the workers were poorly made, lived in slumps and had a difficult life. The idea that something would come and simply reverse the entire current state of affairs was naturally attractive to the poorer blankets of the population, where the movement gained its strongest support.

2. The best explanation for this state of facts comes from the political, social and economical situation in Germany immediately after the First World War. The country had been defeated in this war, it had lost all its colonies and many of its European lands, as well as being forced to pay a large sum of money to the winning allies. It could no longer have a navy or aircrafts and its army and number of soldiers, as well as armaments, was kept under strict supervision by the allied powers. Summarizing all this, in the period after the First World War and equivalent to the ascension of the Nazi Party, Germany was thoroughly defeated and, even more importantly, its national pride was put to great test. This may explain in part why a party that would promise to revive a great Germany that would take back its place among the world powers would gain popular support in the country.