Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Why they don't tell you about Hitler's "Shrinking Markets" problem" video.

  1. Liked and shared, with this comment as preamble" As always interesting and well researched. With that said . . . I am given pause by the idea subsumed into your narrative that, in your estimation, Hitler was swept into power on a wave of popular (unfunded) support, not by the political and economic manipulations of the wealthy industrialists whose NAZI card numbers were in the single digits. If the Big Capitalists, the neoschlachtbarone, wanted what he was selling, it wasn't socialism at all. It was Capitalism without consequences. So, at the very least, Hitler was a tool of Big Money until he wasn't. Did that happen by decree? Does it ever? No. Decrees legitimize existing pogroms. Did NAZI sympathizers and officials act against opposition, both political and economic? Yes. They most certainly did and terror was one of their methods. Did they threaten Krupp or Thyssen? No. They'd have been shot. Who was it that asked about slave labor first? The big industrialists. Who wanted wage freezes and black books so no one could leave his job without ownership approval? The poor? No. The ownership. Hitler never enacted legislation to limit profits, but he did freeze wages. The big money types lived on estates, with servants, and total control over their workers. And if that's socialism, then your definition seems to lack depth. Allow me to adjust the common perception about political labeling of styles of rule. Governing Systems (by Wild Bill Cox) Capitalism: The Rich control the means of production (and control the narrative and write the histories) Socialism: The Rich control the means of production (and control the narrative and write the histories) Communism: The Rich control the means of production (and control the narrative and write the histories) As a bon mot, I might purport that Jesus was the first true socialist and even his ministry ascribed to my definition, because it would not have been possible without the support of wealthy patrons.
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  2. In effect, Hitler amalgamated the Medieval Guild system with the Dark Ages' Manorial system . . . a match doomed to failure from the start. "The Buck Stops Here . . . but not if things go south" is the guidon of the Nazi Fuhrerprinzip. It was all about feudal domains, each with a lord accountable to Hitler . . . except for the real powers, who did whatever they wanted no matter what the Nazis-or the Kaiser, or Democratic governments-say or said.
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  3. Economically, Hitler wanted a Continental System with which to counter the British System, a holdover from 400 years of British dominance of world trade and no "place in the sun" for poor Germany. Hitler wanted, to put it another way, the Napoleonic Continental System, but with himself at its head, rather than some over cultured Frenchman. That war, the one between the Continental System and the British Dominion system, has been going on for centuries and will continue as long as men call themselves nations.
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  4. "The gods above care little whether the system by which things run down below is good or evil. They merely demand a system must be in place." --ROFLMao Tse Dong Good fortune to you, sir, fighting the Good Fight. I will burn incense to you at Yasakuni . . . wait . . . I mean . . . Nanking.
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