Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "Distortions of History - Cambridge narrative of WW2 contradicts itself in 3 pages" video.

  1. I agree with your take on National Socialism being a form of Socialism (or at the least a similar social revolution), but you're missing something. Socialism is not just about state control, that is merely one of several elements of it. The most important element of socialism is the ideological reasons for designing the economy the way they do. It makes a lot more sense to not only point out the lack of free market, but also explain the ideological reasons for it and how similar those are to marxism. And there are enough similarities to either say Nazism is socialism or at the least that Fascism is its own third ideology besides socialism/capitalism that is in many ways related to socialism. You can have state control while being capitalist, for example the war economy in the US during WW2. But if that state control goes coupled with an ideological social revolution, it's no longer capitalism. This is the case for Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the USSR, none were capitalist. To complete your argument, spend more time explaining the social revolutions. And about your points regarding Cambridge/Oxford, I don't know why you're surprised they publish books that are contradictory to one another. They aren't one homogenous group of scholars, they educate many different kinds of scholars with different opinions. Your point about Keynesians distorting history to defend their views MAY be true for some scholars, but it's a very bad idea to claim that the entirety of Cambridge somehow teaches this and they're all elites with the same views.
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