For the next idiot to claim Nazis were Socialists

"Hurr durr Nazis had socialist in the name so they were socialists":

The Economist magazine introduced the term "privatization" (alternatively "privatisation" or "reprivatization" after the German "Reprivatisierung") during the 1930s when it covered Nazi Germany's economic policy.

- Edwards, Ruth Dudley (1995). The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843–1993. Harvard Business School Press. p. 946. ISBN 0-87584-608-4

Compare Bel, Germà (2006). "Retrospectives: The Coining of 'Privatisation' and Germany's National Socialist Party". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 20 (3): 187–94.

Btw - buffalo wings are made of buffaloes and sea lions are really feline lions. Nor are sea horses actually horses.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Nazism had a Keynesian command economy that was the product of the time and military build up. Corporate profits increased and trade unionists were jailed.

Yes, anyone who claims that Hitler was a socialist is an idiot and its an attempt to say NAZIs were left wing instead of right wing. Nazism is a middle class authoritarian dictatorship which protects property rights when the legitimacy of bourgeoisie rule has collapsed. The alt right is an embryonic form of it, whether realised or not.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@Burnley123 Sounds nice, but ignores the fact that Germany was ruled by a corporate and political elite, not by middle class, and that it "protected" property rights only for the elite -- who got immensely rich off it, there even being claims that Hitler might have been the richest man in the world at the height of his power -- while giving that elite freedom to steal from others with impunity. I doubt the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, intellectuals, gays, etc, would agree their property was being protected when it was taken from them and they were sent to the camps.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@ChipmunkErnie Of course the property of minorities were not protected, but these were not the NAZI support.

NAZI support did come from the non Jewish middle class. These were people who felt threatened by Jewish business success, hated communists and also saw the Weimar government as incompetent and a sell out of German national identity.

Yes a corporate political elite benefited, even from the command economy.

My point about property rights was to demonstrate why NAZIs are not socialists. The socialists wanted to abolish (or nationalise) all property. The NAZIs allowed property owners the protection of an authoritarian state.