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@maxfan1591 Wrong. They were far-left socialists.
The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs, faced with the alternative of Marxism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be "liquidated" as "bourgeois" by Marxists. Capitalists don't like to be killed any more than other people do.
Nazis believed, just like the Fascists, that only the State can properly organize a Socialist Society.
They were politically, socially and econo mically anti-cons ervative, since they didn't want to preserve the status quo nor did they want to bring back Monarchy / Kaiser. The conservatives thought Hitler would end the Republic and bring back Mon archy and Kaiser. They were wrong.
Hitler's point was that Marxism must be rejected NOT because it is soci alist, but because it is in cahoots with international finance capital. In fact, Hitler thought the Marxists were INSINCERE about their socialism. This being-in-cahoots of capitalism and Marxism (through the Je ws) is the MAIN point made in Mein Kampf. And is the reason why, for the Nazis, socialism had to become nationalist. That socialism had to become nationalist, did not, however, mean that it went right-wing.
Owning prop erty was made conditi onal and private property rights were abolished with the Reich stag fire decree on February 28, 1933. The Na zis suspended a number of articles of the Weimar Constitution; Among these were Article 115 and Article 153. Article 115 said: "The dw elling of every German is his sanctuary and is inviolable. Exceptions may be imposed by authority of law." Article 153 also guaranteed property. Obviously, they did not confiscate everyone's property, however all pro perty always could be confiscated by the state and a certain amount was. Industry was divided into 13 sectors and placed under the control of the state.
They nationalized unions into one single nation wide union known as the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF, or German La bor Front). The DAF created a single overarching labor union. Essentially all German workers and employees in every economic sector belonged to the DAF. For example, far mers were coordinated into the Reich Food Estate. While traditional unions prioritized workers’ rights, the DAF emphasized national economic goals above personal well-being.
Under the newly created German Labor Front (DAF), the Nazis set high wages, overtime pay was generous, and dismissal of workers by employers was difficult to execute, but inflation and stricter labor laws eroded much of that advantage.
It was a well known fact before and during the war, that Hitler's National Socialist party was an alternative, socialist school of thought which rejected the marxist version of socialism, and capitalism respectively... hence they called themselves a 3rd position.
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@robertl4824 "For their part, businesses welcomed the Nazis' promises to suppress the left. "
The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs, faced with the alternative of Marxism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be "liquidated" as "bourgeois" by Marxists. Capitalists don't like to be killed any more than other people do. Whatever the Nazi's promised, it never happened and this was also noted by the Time magazine.
"Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for foodstuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism."
"Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938", Time; January 2, 1939.
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@robertl4824 "When Hitler took over the party in 1921, he shredded the anti-capitalist parts of the old party's platform."
Wrong. He didn't. Hitler specifically said in many of his speeches, that they are against capitalism and that they are proud socialists.
"Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one's fellow man's sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism ... Since we are socialists, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism... How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!"
"Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus.
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