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Calm down, and try to form a logical argument.
Actually many people do not know that there was not so much difference between Hitler and Stalin.
If we were talking about a moderate European-style socio-democrat, there would be.
Thanks for pointing out the difference between Stalin and modern social democrats - you'd think the distinction would be obvious to everyone, but no, there is still hilarious hysterical shrieking about
communists
at any mention of anything even vaguely left-of-centre, including, at times, those little-red-book-waving-zealots the US Democrats
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Not sure about your other point, though. I mean, 30 million dead on the Eastern Front in WW2 does suggest at least
some degree of ideological difference between Hitler and Stalin.
The Nazis as 'national socialists' is a familiar argument used to suggest that the Nazis were left-wing. It's a McCarthyist-era tactic, attempting to demonise the USSR by establishing a link between them and the primary antagonist of then-recent memory, Hitler. Of course, the Nazis weren't left-wing. Hitler's party was profoundly anti-Marxist, and the phrase 'national socialism' was used to as a marketing tool, a means of differentiating it from the socialism that was popular amongst the working classes, whilst still promoting a working-class appeal. The Nazis weren't, for example, a party of wealth distribution (unless of course you were Jewish). The Nazi use of the word 'socialism' may be compared to the phrase 'all lives matter', which is transparently racist and white-supremacist, and seeks to denigrate blacks by promoting whites, whilst adopting a similar name to the anti-racist movement that it opposes.
But of course Stalin wasn't really a communist, either. He exploited the communist system to become a despot, brought murder and misery to a huge number of people, and had zero concern for the working poor. Left-wing politics in practice, in the context of the first part of the twentieth century, is instead best characterised by the New Deal, and by the post-WW2 rebuilding of Europe by Hitler's enemies, and here in the UK the establishment of the NHS... it's not characterised by Stalin or Hitler.
I would
currently describe myself as left-wing, but the term 'left' is of course relative. If we were living in a communist state, I would describe myself as right-wing. Communism is a terrible idea, because it is a form of absolutism... which is why laissez-faire capitalism, or ancap, or whatever the preferred term is, is also a terrible idea... because it is so easy to exploit, and because it results in the same thing, monopolies and cartels in place of the KGB, and the same outcome - entrenchment of a tiny elite and the exploitation of everyone else.
No system can work fairly unless there is a countervailing force to curb its excesses. This
should be the purpose of a government in a capitalist system. A right-wing government in a capitalist economy makes no sense, and may as well not be there.