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Is the SA acronym that commonly known? I had to search it, and for those also not in the know it's the Sturmabteilung, more commonly known as Storm Troopers.

Also I'm pro-union and not averse to laying out links between fascism and corporate capitalism, but I think you'd need to add a bit more argument here beyond 'the Nazis also did this so it's definitely bad'.

Tangential clarification: SA was not "storm troopers" in the sense of military specialist unit as used in the world wars. SA was basically street gangs which beat up political opponents of the Nazi party.

Yes? It's mentioned in most "rise of Nazis" documentary of which there are 1000s and everyone has seen a few. I'd consider most educated people to know it. More than SD, less than SS.

It's fair to say that union busting was a specific part of the brown-shirt agenda but beyond that it's probably not a very useful historical analogy. There was a much more direct link between worker organisations and nascent revolutionary socialism. IMHO Nazi antipathy to unions was more about political competition than preventing increased worker's rights.

It would be more analagous if it was a republican allied political group working to disrupt unions because they were organising to support democrats.

The whole Nazi party was bankrolled by anti-worker business interests.

Comparing everything with nazis and Hitler is old and tiresome. Waiting for people who don't believe in unions respond you with nazi labor org German Labour Front and how they were socialists and you're back at beginning.

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