As you can see, Arendt laid the blame for Nazism on Imperialism, the ‘rapacious’ profit-seeking through colonization, and the instilling of a racist ideology to conduct said colonization: Nazism in her thought was a natural progression of European colonialism. Capitalism in deterioration indeed. Arendt herself writes this a little further down. I quote from the same article:
And later in the same article:
From all the above, you can see that Arendt’s stance on Nazism as a whole was far different than what is presented in your argument. In fact, it is surprisingly close to mine. Arendt traced the origins of Nazism on the extension of imperialism and the ‘rapacious’ nature of Bourgeois society for aggressive economic expansion. However, she decided for some reason to negate Nazism from that to totalitarianism in her book On the Origins of Totalitarianism. Her negation however, does not really work because of various issues the Stalinist regime had that the Nazi regime didn’t and vice versa. I quote from the same article:
The reason for this mismatch was that the book was two different projects merged into one. I quote from the same article:
So, as you can see what you called ‘lies’ is actually fact. Hannah Arendt composed her theory of Totalitarianism on Stalin’s reign of terror, not Hitler – and she blurred lines between the two to equalize them for some reason. The only fact we know is, she had a lot of material for another book that tied Nazism to imperialism, which she decided to cram in this book, but that caused her argument to negate the monstrosity of the Nazis she herself recognized earlier in her work to the brutal Stalinist dictatorship. And as for the credits on calling Stalin Totalitarian, I think they should really go to Leon Trotsky. I quote from Trotsky’s book “The Revolution Betrayed”, published in 1937, page 99-100:
So, there you have it. That’s why you needed to read the entire book. Because it doesn’t make sense, unless you know the full story of how this book came to be in this form. Of course, Cold War enthusiasts jumped on it and used it to declare the USSR an Empire of Evil decades after Stalin had died and the country had reverted back to its supposed style, all the while curtailing the scathing argument Arendt herself proposed on how Nazism came out of capitalism.