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  • Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,709 Founders Club

    Chintresting. Didn't realize Rohm was a diddler. I figured that would have been Goring, who was a bit of a weirdo anyway. I've not read much about Rohm, other than the guy was a fucking brute.

    Also chintresting to read that Goebbels was a real left winger and dedicated socialist, who was heart broken to learn that Hitler didn't share those views. Of course, Yosef was more in love with Hitler than he was dedicated to any economis ideals, and so probably repressed it and focused on the Yews, a point of commonality with his hero.

    It must have been something else to be alive in those days. Can you imagine being young and educated in Germany at that time? What would you have done?
    I would have lost to Washington in row boat.
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    Palestine makes it hard to abide by rule 1

    Has there ever been a shittier group
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    Per Mike's article(and what I say all the tim regarding interventionism) Hitler probably believed that he could manipulate the economy to get the outcomes he wanted, which inevitably led to more and more interventions, and more and more state command and control of the economy(Doesn't sound like anyone in the Tug...).

    It's a mistake to look for a deeper or broader economic vision imo. I think he was a nationalist first with intentions of building wealth and prosperity for ze' Germans and would have taken whatever pragmatic economic policies he thought were best to those ends. His ideology was political/social first and economic only as a means to those ends.
    Yes, that's what I mean to say. Better stated.

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    Hey would one of you democrats on here be a real pal and spend some time telling us how Hitler and the Nazi's had nothing to do with socialism? I really would appreciate it and to be honest I find it really, really funny reading all of your historical revisions and attempts to avoid the truth. Thanks again. I will sit back and read your responses now without interruption.





    I think what we've decided here is that it's inaccurate to say that the Nazis "had nothing to do with socialism", but that it wasn't their driving philosophy, at least insofar as Hitler was concerned; and when it comes to the Third Reich, I'm not really all that interested in what anybody other than Hitler thought, because they all lined up directly behind him. By the time they were full on into their thing, he and all his henchmen were much more preoccupied with racial politics and nationalist goals than they were in debating economic theory. I think @UW_Doog_Bot has right: there was likely no real developed economic platform (other than the rejection of Bolshevism). Rather, they did whatever was convenient at the time to keep the machine running. Damone's article points out that, Hitler at least, was a little all over the place on economic decisions.
  • Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,553 Founders Club

    I think what we've decided here is that it's inaccurate to say that the Nazis "had nothing to do with socialism", but that it wasn't their driving philosophy, at least insofar as Hitler was concerned; and when it comes to the Third Reich, I'm not really all that interested in what anybody other than Hitler thought, because they all lined up directly behind him. By the time they were full on into their thing, he and all his henchmen were much more preoccupied with racial politics and nationalist goals than they were in debating economic theory. I think @UW_Doog_Bot has right: there was likely no real developed economic platform (other than the rejection of Bolshevism). Rather, they did whatever was convenient at the time to keep the machine running. Damone's article points out that, Hitler at least, was a little all over the place on economic decisions.
    Well, I would add, a rejection of capitalism as well. They attempted to plow a "middle road" similar to Nehru in India which, like many examples in history, meant an ever increasing scope of self-justifying interventionism that lead to a full blown state planned economy.

    To me, it's just that, another failed example of the center left and "moderate restraint of the free market".
  • Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club

    I would have lost to Washington in row boat.
    @dawgfan1936, true?!
  • Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,709 Founders Club

    Well, I would add, a rejection of capitalism as well. They attempted to plow a "middle road" similar to Nehru in India which, like many examples in history, meant an ever increasing scope of self-justifying interventionism that lead to a full blown state planned economy.

    To me, it's just that, another failed example of the center left and "moderate restraint of the free market".
    Interestingly enough, if it wasn't for the failure of American capitalism (far less regulated than it is nowadays mind you) in the period circa 1929- 32, the NSDAP would have never won enough seats in the Reichstag for Hitler to be named Chancellor.
  • Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,553 Founders Club

    Interestingly enough, if it wasn't for the failure of American capitalism (far less regulated than it is nowadays mind you) in the period circa 1929- 32, the NSDAP would have never won enough seats in the Reichstag for Hitler to be named Chancellor.
    You call it the failure of capitalism but I've got plenty of government regulations and market interference to point to in that era. Don't make me start citing economic historians before pointing fingers at my free markets.
  • Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,553 Founders Club

    We've already discussed at great length the subject and I never disagreed with you, so don't twist. A better form of free-market capitalism, with sound monetary policy and good safety nets (unemployment insurance) would likely avoided the Great Depression. But still...
    I know, it was moar for the idiots in the back of the crowd who might be thinking "aha! capitalism bad!".

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