Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian

[opebo]

Nazis were not socialists at all, very much the opposite.  They were really nothing very special - they were a right-wing nationalist party like all other right-wing nationalist parties (for example the GOP), whose purpose is to decieve the more gullible and hubris-prone portion of the working class into voting against their own interests out of hatred.

[opebo]

My view of the Nazi economic policy is pretty simple - they would do whatever they though was of benefit to the Nazi Party, which to them was pretty much the same thing as the nation. If they needed to force a business to do something, they would do it. If leaving a business alone to do what it did was beneficial, they'd do that. The policy was simply whatever it took to push the Nazi agenda and the Nazi war machine forward. Overall, their policies might be considered socialist, but they really didn't have a consistent economic theory or ideology that they ran on.

They didn't 'force' businesses to do anything - they simply contracted things out just like any other military-industrial complex.  Huge profits were made!  You are all enormously exaggerating the difference between Nazi Germany and the US.

[opebo]

My view of the Nazi economic policy is pretty simple - they would do whatever they though was of benefit to the Nazi Party, which to them was pretty much the same thing as the nation. If they needed to force a business to do something, they would do it. If leaving a business alone to do what it did was beneficial, they'd do that. The policy was simply whatever it took to push the Nazi agenda and the Nazi war machine forward. Overall, their policies might be considered socialist, but they really didn't have a consistent economic theory or ideology that they ran on.

They didn't 'force' businesses to do anything - they simply contracted things out just like any other military-industrial complex.  Huge profits were made!  You are all enormously exaggerating the difference between Nazi Germany and the US.

The Us hasn't imposed price controls since Nixon, the last socialist president, was in power.

So?

[opebo]

According to you, on both extremes there is high government intervention. Where is small government, then?

'Small government' ideologies are deceptive.  In fact the State is still the most powerful and formative force in society even in 'laissez faire' capitalism, because it uses violence upon the working classes to preserve the privilege of the owning class.  Regardless of its 'size', it is still the force which arranges the population into a heirarchy, and ensures some get more than others.