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I'd recommend this book that's actually a first hand account if anyone is truly curious. In no way did Hitler's Germany have anything resembling a free market with private property rights that any small government advocate would ever want. It is much closer to the fascist states that so called "socialist" governments literally always devolve into. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to use the state to mold the economy like the central planning Young Hegelians they were and anyone trying to tell you different like the clearly uneducated u/ aeiou_sometimesy here is either wrong or lying to you.
Read this book and tell me again about Nazi "privatization"
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
>These Nazi radicals think of nothing except "dis-tributing the wealth." Some businessmen have even started studying Marxist theories to better understand the present economic system
Written by a communist economist in Nazi Germany before the war
There are several books written about why what you said is factually incorrect. Here is one. An excerpt:
"Some businessmen have even started studying Marxist theories, so that they will have a better understanding of the present economic system", wrote one businessman. The businessman goes on to say that once Hitler confiscates all property from the Jews, that " it will be the turn of the 'white Jews' which means us Aryan businessmen after the Jews have been expropriated.".
I don't know if you read books, but I hope you do.
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
Nazi Germany had a planned corporatist economy, my guy.
https://www.amazon.com.br/Vampire-Economy-Business-Fascism-English-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
Fascism is more of a political system than economic system. On Reddit, most people are going to be heavily biased towards communism. Go ahead and read what they suggest but make sure to balance it with other readings.
To learn more about Fascism:
Doctrine of Fascism: This is fascism defined by Mussolini himself.
Vampire Economy: A description of business under Hitler from someone who lived through it.
You will find that Fascist economies are heavily regulated with lots of bureaucracy. The State has the final say and is involved in everything, despite it being "private" businesses. Note that in the manifesto, Mussolini rejects classical liberalism and free markets.
Ludwig von Mises has a book called "Liberalism" describing free markets. He also has a book called "Socialism" where he describes socialism and famously debunks it.
Economics In One Lesson by Hazlitt is a great starting point if you wish to understand economics at a basic level, which is going to be required if you wish to objectively evaluate various economic systems.
Human Action by Mises is a much more detailed framework for economics, its thick but fairly easy to understand.
Again, an understanding of basic economics is crucial before you can evaluate economic & political systems.
Have you read the vampire economy? Interesting read about doing business in the Germany during the build up
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
It would, unironcially. Argentina's problem is chronic inflation, inflation that is created by the Central Bank of Argentina in order to fund its massive bloated State.
This is basically where Argentina's economy is right now.
Here, this was written by a socialist, read up:
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
>For 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree Removed clause 115 and 153, effectively abolishing private property.
Not really. The state didn't seize your private property or control it. Just had the power to if you went against Nazi Ideology. Which is way different from State Socialism, where the state controls property, or like in China where you rent the property from the government.
>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2597802 Page 576. Source on them taking and tossing out industrialists.
Book I do not own, thus cannot read. And the thing says in the preview that they're talking about the wartime economy, which of course had more state control, because it was during a world war. The dude Aso talks about Socialism being a big thing in that time, and talks about Market Socialist Western theorists", which suggests a more liberal definition of "Socialism".
>https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK Page 74-75 for the source on price commissars. Page 52 for supervisory boards on material distribution.
Again, random book that I don't own, and thus cannot read.
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front#:~:text=The%20German%20Labour%20Front%20(German,Hitler's%20rise%20to%20power. Source on wage controls. 2.
Sounds like the usual National Labour union stuff. I.e: focus on class cooperation, security for workers, and striking a middle ground between employer and employee, not really Socialist. Maybe Socialistic, but not Socialist.
> https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208 Page 183-186 on the collectivizing of all agriculture debt and consolidation of farmland.
And, another book I do not own, and thus cannot read.
lol stealing money to make weapons is not "good" or sustainable for an economy.
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
"Referring to the economics of John Maynard Keynes as "useful introduction to fascist economics", Mussolini spent Italy into a structural deficit that grew exponentially.[18] In Mussolini’s first year as Prime Minister in 1922, Italy's national debt stood at 93 billion lire. By 1934, Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini, estimated Italy's national debt had risen to 149 billion lire.[19] In 1943, The New York Times put Italy’s national debt as 406 billion lire.[20] A former school teacher, Mussolini’s spending on the public sector, schools and infrastructure was considered extravagant. Mussolini "instituted a programme of public works hitherto unrivaled in modern Europe. Bridges, canals and roads were built, hospitals and schools, railway stations and orphanages; swamps were drained and land reclaimed, forests were planted and universities were endowed".[21] As for the scope and spending on social welfare programs, Italian fascism "compared favorably with the more advanced European nations and in some respect was more progressive".[22] When New York city politician Grover Aloysius Whalen asked Mussolini about the meaning behind Italian fascism in 1939, the reply was: "It is like your New Deal!".[23] By 1925, the Fascist government had "embarked upon an elaborate program" that included food supplementary assistance, infant care, maternity assistance, general healthcare, wage supplements, paid vacations, unemployment benefits, illness insurance, occupational disease insurance, general family assistance, public housing and old age and disability insurance.[24] As for public works, the Mussolini's administration "devoted 400 million lire of public monies" for school construction between 1922 and 1942, compared to only 60 million lire between 1862 and 1922.[25]"
Oh yeah, mussolini was very libertarian. And so was hitler that there is an entire book on his libertarian economic policies.
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
I'll forgive you for not understanding capital consumption in a war-economy.
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
For 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree Removed clause 115 and 153, effectively abolishing private property. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2597802 Page 576. Source on them taking and tossing out industrialists. https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK Page 74-75 for the source on price commissars. Page 52 for supervisory boards on material distribution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front#:~:text=The%20German%20Labour%20Front%20(German,Hitler's%20rise%20to%20power. Source on wage controls. 2. https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208 Page 183-186 on the collectivizing of all agriculture debt and consolidation of farmland.
Wrong, capitalism is the reason the world is as peaceful as it is today, built on mutual respect, appreciation of differences, and peaceful trade.
Fascism is also anticapitalism:
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
> No, they weren't.
If you can't accept reality, just because it's dark, you make reality your enemy.
> The Nazis did not have a planned economy.
Yes, they did. Read up:
https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
>>democracy is socialistic as well
>No, it's not. You have to truly be a lost cause to believe that.
Democracy is collectivist, and collectivism essentially is socialism. Socialism without collectivism is incomprehensible.
Imagine Hitler lying. Read this and the Reichstag Fire Decree https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK
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