Let's see the Communist Manifesto:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- Nobody is allowed to own any land – all land will be owned by the State. Anyone who wants to use the land will have to pay a rent in order to use it – which is what has happened now with the tax on land.
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- People who earn more will pay progressively more tax. What this does is disincentivize people from earning more, ensuring that there is always a wide class of the State-dependent proletariat. The end goal is the destruction of the middle class.
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
- You will own nothing and you will be happy. This point would make it impossible to pass one's own property onto children and grandchildren, as everything will belong to the State.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Nobody is allowed to oppose the Government by any means, nor to leave it should the oppression become too great. Anyone attempting to do so will have his property taken by the State.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Nobody is allowed to do business without permission from the Government, nor to create inheritance without permission of the Government. This would be done by a creation of a national central bank with a central State fiat currency and the State monopoly. This is literally the Fascist so-called "state capitalism".
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
- Nobody is allowed to communicate with each other without permission by the State. This is clearly intended to prevent any resistance against the State.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- All instruments of production are to be owned by the State, and State will organize projects according to the centrally-imposed plans made by the Government.
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Individual is to be impressed into the State-managed industrial army (good example of such an organization is Organization Todt). Individual has no right to his own being and his freedom; everything he is belongs to the State.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- There can be no escape from the State. Everyone is to become a slave of the State, with no distinction allowed. This point calls for central planning of agriculture and industries as well as control over the populace.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
- Children will be brainwashed in the State-run schools to serve as perfect little foot soldiers for the Glorious Revolution.
Now compare this to Hitler's 25 Points:
- We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples.
- We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
- We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.
- Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.
- Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.
- The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, officeholding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.
- We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
- Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
- All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
- The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all. Consequently we demand:
- Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
- In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
- We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
- We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
- We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
- We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
- We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
- We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, Schieber and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
- We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.
- The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school [Staatsbuergerkunde] as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.
- The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
- We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
- We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that a: All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race b: Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the State to be published. They may not be printed in the German language c: Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications or any influence on them and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life, and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.
- We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: common utility precedes individual utility.
- For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unlimited authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The forming of state and profession chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation. The leaders of the Party promise, if necessary by sacrificing their own lives, to support by the execution of the points set forth above without consideration
So:
- Nazi Point 7 is basically a combination of Communist Points 7 and 8
- Nazi Point 10 is Communist Point 8
- Nazi Point 11 is Communist Point 8
- Nazi Point 13 is Communist Point 7
- Nazi Point 17 is Communist Point 1 and 3
- Nazi Point 20 is Communist Point 10
- Nazi Point 21 is Communist Point 10
- Nazi Point 25 covers Communist Points 4, 5, 6 and7
And these are
only things that are actually 1-for-1. If you consider context and what these things will lead to, they are even more similar.
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