Recently, Alice Weidel, the frontwoman of Germany’s far-right AfD party, was interviewed by tycoon and Trump supporter Elon Musk. In their much-publicized virtual conversation, Weidel blurted out that Hitler was a “communist” and a “socialist” in order to show the distance that supposedly separates her from Nazism, since Hitler was “not a conservative” or “a libertarian” and that her party and she are “exactly the opposite”.

Who knows? Perhaps Weidel knows better than the industrial capitalists who supported Hitler, such as the then chairman of the Association of German Industry, Krupp. Perhaps, in her view, even the German capital that gave millions of marks to the National Socialist party, effectively bringing Hitler to power, was also communist.

Perhaps, the US monopolies of Ford, General Motors, IBM, etc., which played a catalytic role in supporting Nazism and made huge profits, were covert supporters of communism.

Or, perhaps, even the heads of Ford and IBM themselves, who were awarded the medals of the “Grand Cross” by the Third Reich, were unaware of what they were getting into with Adolf...

The henchmen of capitalism, such as the AfD, compete with the European Union in the propaganda of equating fascism with communism. This doctrine of equation is a must in order to whitewash the most barbaric form of capitalist power, fascism and Nazism, and to slander the greatest achievement of the peoples, socialism–communism and workers’ power. Therefore, the trust of business giants like Musk in such forces is a given…

Commentary of the daily newspaper “Rizospastis” , Organ of the CC of the KKE, published on 11/1/25.