Comments by "And Rei" (@AndRei-yc3ti) on "Hitler's Socialism: The Evidence is Overwhelming" video.

  1. ​ @carterghill  Hitler wasn't a socialist though (despite the party name). His policies were more capitalist in nature not socialist (promotion of private business interests, no worker cooperatives, racism, no welfare, etc) to claim he was socialist is utter delusion that indicates you have no idea what socialism is.
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  2. @Carter Hill  TIKs video was mostly nonsensical. I'll break it down later when I'm on my computer and not typing on my phone. One of the first things the Nazi Party did after coming to power was to privatize government held monopolies. As Maxine Yaple Sweezy wrote in "the Structure of the Nazi Economy" in 1941, "In return for business assistance, the Nazis hastened to give evidence of their good will by restoring to private capitalism a number of monopolies held or controlled by the state” with one of the main objectives of this policy was to stimulate the propensity to save since a war economy required a low amount of private consumption (remember that the Nazis thought that War was the engine of human progress). Sweezy further writes, "The practical significance of the transference of government enterprises into private hands was thus that the capitalist class continued to serve as a vessel for the accumulation of income. Profit-making and the return of property to private hands, moreover, have assisted the consolidation of Nazi party power.” - Point is Nazi Germany was capitalist and not socialist. This is very similar to what the United States did with the United Steel Trust. The German Labor Front was a labor Union very similar to those that existed in the US and UK. Point is - do your homework properly before citing a youtube video as a valid source lol. This video is nothing more than a propaganda piece.
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  3. ​ @carterghill  It doesn't really matter whether individuals within the Nazi Party were granted control of businesses is very similar to what the EU did in its privatizations of the 90's and what the US did even earlier after the Civil War in the South - they gave access to business only to those that supported their policy. But this does not mean that those who joined the NDSAP, were supporters of the Nazi Party. For example a group of shipbuilders in Hamburg purchased Hamburg-SüdAmerika in September 1936 after which they joined the Nazi Party in order to not have interference in their business (according to their statement to Hjalmar Schacht). But regarding your initial question of naming someone outside the Nazi Party who was given control of a business - Fritz Thyssen. He was never part of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) reprivatized United Steel Works in return for his support of Nazi policy. Another example is a group of Bremen shipbuilders purchasing Deutsche Schiff-und Machinenbau AG Bremen “Deschimag” from the Nazi Party despite having no Party affiliations. Lolwut? How does reducing the amount of private consumption imply that the Nazi's believed that the engine of progress required little private industry? This literally goes against historical facts, statement of contemporaries lol. Indeed, high levels of savings were thought to depend on inequality of income, which would be increased by inequality of wealth - which is generally characteristic of capitalism and private enterprise. Reprivatization allowed the capitalist class to accumulate enormous wealth at the expense of the working class - which is fundamentally in opposition to socialism and socialist policy. By privatizing publically (government) held industry - the Nazi Party hoped to not scare the economy and cause capital flight, hoped to bolster the low amount of support they initially had from private enterprise. Some of the ways in which the Nazi Party "rewarded" industrailists for their business support was by privatizing state monopolies, crushing labor unions, etc. Indeed when questioned on socilaism Hitler stated, " “Why bother with such half-measures when I have far more important matters in hand, such as the people themselves?. . .Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.”" Moreover, as a ratio of privatization proceeds/fiscal revenues Nazi Germany had a ratio of 1.79% which exceed the modern EU of 0.65%. The reason that I compare with the EU is because Nazi Germany was the only country at the time to practice privatization while all the other major countries had increasingly more government intervention in the wake of the Great Depression. No, the logic is that if one claims that the US is capitalist then the presence of a very similar thing in another state cannot be socialist a priori, unless you decide to claim that the US is not capitalist lol. I have heard all of Tiks "arguments" before - its a propaganda piece similar to the ones we saw this summer that claimed "China will collapse in 28 days!" that were also "well researched" according to the comments. Point is - Nazi Germany was not socialist by any means and favored quite strong capitalist policies and capitalism subject to strong state regulation (we currently see strong regulation of the market by governments and they are not considered socialist for doing this). This is corroborated by the fact that the Nazi Party stated on numerous occassions that it wanted to divest itself from risks and the large expenses related to that and put it in private hands - an action rather inconsistent of socialist governments. Even the German Labor Front was transferred into private hands so that it could be used to generate revenues from donations, fees, etc that could be taxed but at the same time save the government from spending too much money that it could invest into the war machine instead!
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  4. ​ @beaverfeaver664  who told you the USSR was authoritarian tho?
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  5.  @hectordiaz1575  lol they weren't socialist in anything but name
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  6.  @hectordiaz1575  no they weren't. National Socialists heavily invested into private industry and enterprise and cut almost all social programs. Take a look at their policies
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  7. @Soul Capitalist  socialism and right wing are opposites though lmao. You are using words without understanding their meaning
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