edgeworthy
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1. The Nazis were very keen on the private ownership of land. And the first recorded land tax dates to 3000BC!I am just objectively right here. But you are the one who is shouting with fingers in your ears because you are a socialist and you don't like the idea of your favorite ideology being outed as a genocidal crackpot theory that it really is.
But the fact remains that Nazis were socialist in their name, beliefs, program, political system, everything.
Look at the Communist Manifesto and try to find one thing Nazis didn't do. I dare you.
Nazis did all of the above.
They confiscated private property, established central state control of the economy, hell, they even had the Five Year Plans!
2. The Nazis were almost pathologically Middle Class. And the Roman Republic used progressive taxation. (The citizens considered it a point of pride to be able to pay as it was a mark of status)
3. Simply didn't happen. Hitler personally made sure that Krupp's stayed in the family.
4. In the early days the Nazis were more set on kicking undesirables out of the country. And usually sold off confiscated assets. They believed in Private ownership, with state ownership only where necessary.
5. Not having a central bank is very American. Almost every other nation does have one. The Bank of England was founded in 1694. There is an even older private bank still operating in Germany.
6. The Nazis were very keen on public transport ownership. They sponsored the right of every German to own a car.
7. Did you miss all the massive private arms manufacturers? IG Farben had its own sub camp at Auschwitz. The Nazis Privatised oppression.
8. There is nothing Socialist, or new, in conscripted labour. Ancient Egypt had conscripted labour. Anglo-Saxon England had conscripted labour.
9. The Nazis had a weird purity in agriculture thing going on. They really didn't like cities. (Regardless of Hitler's fantasy re-building projects)
10. Every remotely civilised modern nation has free education for children in public schools. There is nothing intrinsically communist or Nazi in the concept. And the abolition of child factory labour is an absolute good.
A lot of the public works were inherited by them, from Weimar. Government Bonds and Fiat Currency paid for the ACW.
And Nazi Germany worked on 4-Year Plans, NOT 5.