National Socialism is a form of Marxism

This is what both communists and fascists refuse to understand. Fascism is just communism 2.0. The fascists had the same goals as the communists (asserting total state control of everyone/everything).

But the fascists had the benefit of hindsight seeing how the "Just put everything under the direct ownership and management of the government, who don't have the first clue how to run any of that shit." approach worked out for the communists (total disaster, economic collapse, famine etc).

So the fascists, looking at how the communist approach worked out, realized they had to keep all the industrialists, business owners, educated classes in place in order for the industries to keep running. But how do you rally the populace to consent to a new revolutionary government taking over their lives without turning them against the elites? You select an expendable minority group who you can convince the public to blame for their economic woes - the Jews. The nazis had the jews stand in for the bourgeoisie in their version of the great people's revolution. And it worked. The public surrendered themselves to this new ruling party who would save Germany from "Jewish oppression", just as the bolsheviks rallied the public against the Bourgeoisie.

So with that, the nazis were able to take command of everyone and everything but without sacrificing the upper classes (who were needed to run the economy), and instead just sacrificing the Jews as a scapegoat. and it worked.

The notion that communism and fascism are at opposite ends of the spectrum, and democratic capitalism is in the middle is completely absurd. To believe that, you'd have to believe we're currently living in a cross between communism and fascism. We are clearly not. They have nearly everything in common with each other, and nothing in common with ours. It's communism and fascism one end of the spectrum, total anarchy on the other, and us somewhere in the middle.