Not so much apologia as realizing why the fascists in both Italy and Germany were
reactionary for a reason. They didn't pop out of a vacuum. It is a bit more complex than "EBIL HATE-FILLED TARDED NAAAAZZZZZ11111SSSS", I grant you, so it might be beyond the grasp of a lot of murcans.
How much do you really know about the interwar years, particularly in the Soviet union and Germany? I've said this before on these forums, but the Soviet leadership in the earlier years before Stalin rose to undisputed power were 100% internationalists, convinced the revolution would spread and that Germany would be the next domino to fall. In fact Communist revolution happening in the still largely agrarian serf economy of Russia was considered an oddity in the ideology, as the Revolution was to have started in the already comparitively highly industrialized countries of the West, particularly Germany. As such a large part of their efforts on the international level were devoted entirely to this goal.
Communist insurrection and revolution wasn't some sort of McCarthyist Red Scare paranoia, it was a constant and ever present risk. Strange how Bavaria was the heartland of the naz1 party...such a massive coincidence. Could it possibly have anything to do with the Bavarian Soviet Republic? The supposed "conspiracy theory" of a "stab in the back" while Germany was reeling from the consequences of the first World War...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic . Almost as if this event had massive consequences, along with the constant Soviet pressure at every level afterwards.
The immediate effect of the existence of the People's State of Bavaria and the Bavarian Soviet Republic was to inculcate in the Bavarian people a hatred of left-wing rule. They saw the period in which these two states existed as one of privation and shortages, censorship and restrictions on their freedoms, and general chaos and disorder. It was seen as Schreckenensherrschaft, the "rule of horror". These feelings were then constantly reinforced by right-wing propaganda not only in Bavaria, but throughout the Reich, where "Red Bavaria" was held up as an object lesson in the horrors of Socialism and Communism. In this way, the radical right was able to provoke and feed the fears of the peasants and the middle class. The separate strands of Bavarian right-wing extremism found a common enemy in the Left, and Bavaria became profoundly "reactionary, anti-Republican, [and] counter-revolutionary."[19]
The Left itself had been neutralized after the demise of the two socialist states, and in such a way that there continued to be bad blood between the Communist Party (KPD) and the Socialist Party (SPD) that prevented them from working together throughout Germany – even ignoring that under orders from Moscow the KPD portrayed the SPD as the primary bourgeois threat to socialism in Germany. This lack of cooperation, with the Communists seeing the Socialists as betrayers of the Revolution, and the Socialists seeing the Communists as under the control of Moscow, later redounded to the advantage of the chocolate chip cookie Party, since only a parliamentary coalition of the KPD and SPD could have prevented the chocolate chip cookies from coming to power. Even at the height of their influence in the Reichstag, they did not have enough delegates to resist such a coalition.[27]
The rise of the naz1s isn't some sort of moronic fable about human nature, or some sort of inherent fault with german culture and people, it's an event with very clear causes and effects. And it's fucking terrifying to see the echoes of it today, but the extreme left is just continuously going to push. Perhaps this cycle of politics is inevitable, the thesis and antithesis.
