It's not the same thing, and Newt Gingrich (a former history professor) knows it [1]. Left-wing Socialism was invented by Jews and is egalitarian, one-world "pre-communism." National Socialism is not [2]. What would have been a pretty good article has been ruined by unnecessary anti-Nazi propaganda. As usual. Newt, why mention Nazis in an article about communism? I think I know why: so that no one can call you a "Nazi apologist" or a "Holocaust minimizer." Right?

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[1] Gingrich taught at the University of West Georgia

[2] two Jews, Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864) and Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) founded socialism