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We exterminated National Socialism but failed to liquidate international socialism; Kaiser exhorts us to continue the fight.
—PETER THIEL, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author of Zero to One
This book dismantles the supposed moral superiority of socialism compared to fascism. Kaiser demonstrates that Marxism-Leninism and Nazi fascism are not opposites at all—they are twin ideologies, both children of the same collectivist monster.
—JAVIER MILEI, President of Argentina
NAZI-COMMUNISM by Axel Kaiser is a provocative, meticulously argued treatise that dismantles the conventional narrative separating Nazism from communism.
Drawing on extensive historical, philosophical, and economic analysis, Kaiser demonstrates that the ideologies are not opposites but fraternal variants of the same socialist root—united by their rejection of core Western values.
The book is structured around five shared negations that define their common essence: anti-rationalism, anti-individualism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, and anti-humanism.
Kaiser exposes the double standard in academia and culture that sanitizes communism’s 100-plus million victims while demonizing Nazism alone, arguing that Nazism is essentially communism stripped of internationalism and its inclusive utopian mask.
Richly documented with quotes from Hayek, Mises, Popper, Arendt, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and primary sources from Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Goebbels, Mussolini, and others, the book is both a scholarly demolition of Marxist apologetics and a passionate defense of individualism, reason, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. It serves as a timely warning against resurgent collectivism and those fascists disguised as anti-fascists.
We exterminated National Socialism but failed to liquidate international socialism; Kaiser exhorts us to continue the fight.
—PETER THIEL, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author of Zero to One
This book dismantles the supposed moral superiority of socialism compared to fascism. Kaiser demonstrates that Marxism-Leninism and Nazi fascism are not opposites at all—they are twin ideologies, both children of the same collectivist monster.
—JAVIER MILEI, President of Argentina
This is a timely and necessary book; it is fundamental to understanding how fascism and Marxism are two inseparable faces of the evil that we democrats must confront equally.
—MARÍA CORINA MACHADO, Nobel Laureate, Leader of Venezuela’s Democratic Forces
Kaiser explodes the myth that Marxism and Nazism differ, the one OK and teachable, the other evil and unmentionable. Read his lucid and learned book and think again. Statism is statism. Anti-liberalism is anti-liberalism. Mass murder is mass murder.
—DEIRDRE NANSEN MCCLOSKEY, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Axel Kaiser has laid out the fundamental statist similarities between Marxist-Leninism and Nazi fascism. The world needs to read this book.
—TYLER COWEN, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director of the Mercatus Center
Axel Kaiser argues that “communism, Nazism, and fascism are all variations of socialism that spring from the same philosophical root”—anti-rational, anti-individual, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, and anti-human. Kaiser has brilliantly recast this old argument for our new times, when socialism is once again chic, and “anti-fascism” and “anti-racism” have resurfaced as the diseases of which they pretend to be the cure. Every undergraduate in the world should be assigned this book, preferably in their first freshman semester.
—SIR NIALL FERGUSON, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, Author of The War of the World