Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "TimeGhost History" channel.

  1. Existance of private enterprise is not proof of a state being non-socialist. Under that logic the USSR wasn't socialist for several points in its history, as private enterprise was permitted to exist there for part of the Lenin era, and most of the Gorbachev era. Pepsi was also permitted to operate in the USSR for decades, as was KFC, albeit in the latter case via a proxy. The NSDAP were more interested in nationalizing the race, than industry, and they stated as such on several occasions. (they also were nationalist-centric instead of internationalist, rather like Stalinists in the USSR) As such on paper you could be a multi million reichmark businessman in this era, but if you said or did anything the NSDAP didn't like, they and the state union would render it all to naught, likely followed by said businessman ending up in a concentration camp... or meeting with a 'accident'.
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  2. A handful of notable details, albeit amidst a narrative that omits a lot of inconveniant facts, such as, though not limited to: • Hitler's adherence to the - then commonplace but since discredited - Shrinking Markets theory. • The existance of vast state social programs under the NSDAP, such as the KDF. (all part of their own version of cradle to grave indoctrination) • The then unprecedented explosion in the size of the German Civil Service under the NSDAP. So large and powerful did this red tape machine grow, that aquiring parts for war industry during WWII was as much a beauraucratic nightmare as it was industrial. (it shrank again dramatically in the postwar, and firmly capitalist, FRG) • The fact that All rival political factions were banned after 1933, with members of any political shade being repressed thereafter, simply for not towing the NSDAP line, which was that the party and the state were the same thing, and the state itself was [essentially] god. • That the NSDAP deliberately endeavoured toward Autarky, under the assumption that "Living Space" in the east would ultimately provide the resources they had traditionally had to trade for. (such as oil from venezuela & romania, rare metals from turkey, ball bearings & iron ore from sweden, etc) • That "property rights" meant little if anything to the NSDAP. A businessman [on paper] could own a business, but at a whim the NSDAP controlled state could take it all away, without compensation nor a given reason. Same thing if in basically any other aspect of german society. • The USSR also had a single state run trade union, albeit with a gulag labour system for those whom displeased the state, or anyone within the political class. • That the NSDAP for most of their rule considered British and US style mass production with scorn, rather like conservatism & classical liberalism, which the NSDAP & Communists alike considered antithetical to their ideologies. The NSDAP were very much like gangsters, but that was also true of Stalinism, where the slightest whim of one man, meant no position below him was secure from arbatrary incarceration &/or murder, for pretty much anything.
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  3. ^ So~ you didn't even bother to look up the details mentioned, and give no reason for your assertion, other than denial.
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  4. ^ Translation: "It's not real Socialism!!" (niether the NSDAP nor the USSR, apparently XD) You're going to have to try harder than that.
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  5. ^ About as cliched and vacuous reply, as I expected. Your argument was nonsense, and still is, as proven by the fact that you claim none of the aspects listed were "socialist", despite it being the CCCP that was the point of comparison. Let me guess: are you going to say now that "real socialism has never been tried!!"? XD.
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  6.  @darthbigred22  MiG and Tupolev still exist, as do Sukhoi. Since the end of the Soviet Military-First State - itself a common theme of communism and national-socialism - they've mostly had to make do with proverbial table scraps. The PAK 50 is technically a collaboration between several of them. Soviet & Warsaw Pact Car manufacturers though... almost all of them collapsed post-1991, with the rest only surrviving via niche markets (like Tatra) or being bought out by western competition (like Skoda).
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  7. I couldn't care less about "sarcasm". The example given was inaccurate, thus I corrected it. #ThisIsNotRocketSurgery
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  8. ^ Couldn't finish that comment without a lame, cliched insult could you? XD. My original comment made the same point you claim, without needing poorly signalled sarcasm. Also: I'm a classical liberal. Only yanks get liberalism confused with socialism. (despite the irony that socialists [whatever their shade of red] loathe liberalism, as it spurns notions such as a big state and command economy)
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  9. ^ Spoken like a true bot: complete with dated ad hominiem diatribe, projection of your own insecurities, and pointless use of multiple comments XD.
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