Why is the alternative to the Hitler of OTL...

Just a note, Hitler hated Jews from his time in Vienna, not WW1. Also I think its an AH Cliche to have Hitler succeed as any other than a Nazi. Its my opinion that it would hard to replicate Hitlers success in OTL, in any ATL. Having Communism succeed under Hitler is stupid IMO.

Just when he became a violent anti-Semite is a matter of dispute. As I wrote at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/QJxLPYR2gI8/2jHBF7zYE0QJ
"Hamann's book btw is fascinating--like some other recent writers on Hitler, she casts serious doubt on Hitler's account in *Mein Kampf* of having become fanatically anti-Semitic in Vienna. She does not doubt that Hitler read and heard a great deal of anti-Semitic material in Vienna, and that this *later* had a great effect on him and supplied him with many of his anti-Semitic arguments, but the evidence for Hitler's anti-Semitism before 1919 is pretty thin, while there is considerable evidence of reasonably friendly relations between him and Jews. (Of all the early witnesses who can be taken seriously, she argues, only Kubizek portrays the young Hitler as anti-Semitic, and even he does so much more in the post-World War II published version of his memoirs than in the original version commissioned by the NSDAP.)"

See http://www.porges.net/JewsInVienna/5WasYounghitlerAntiSemite.html for Hamann's analysis: "However, reality, as it emerges from the reports of Viennese eye witnesses, has little to do with the myths Mein Kampf purports. Apart from the special case of August Kubizek, no anti-Semitic remark by the young Hitler has been documented
 
Two What If discussion threads, one of which mentions the lack of a communist Hitler being discussed. Two DBWIs and two AHCs about making Hitler a communist. This is all rather anecdotal, especially given that two point out that it's a rather difficult scenario to construct and one mentions that it's not a common topic. I notice that all bar one are more than two years old.

If you have any actual works about a communist Hitler in mind I'd like to read them.

Well, the most recent DBWI was just yesterday, and I don't see why DBWI's don't count. Anyway, I agree"'always" is an exaggeration, but there still do seem to be more posts suggesting Hitler as a Communist (even if as an AHC or DBWI) than most other non-Nazi political orientations.
 
Surely it's Hitler's personality and character that makes fitting him into a radical ideological position easier? I would love to see SPD Hitler, but really, I can't imagine how many contortions you would have to engage in to shunt him into a 'bourgeois' political party long-term. He wasn't a very settled personality, until he went into the army he wasn't leading a settled lifestyle, so putting him into a settled political existence would stretch credulity unless it was very well-crafted.
 
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