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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Basically under Fascism business, indeed everything, was subject to the directives of The Leader. Business that didn't would be seized and run in the interests of the Leader and The People.
Which means /not capitalism/ to lovers of definitions.
Of course such persons have told me that Maggie Thatcher, Winston S Churchill and Bismarck were socialists and some also believed that since he called his party the National Socialists Hitler must have been one.
So clarify what you mean by Mixed Capitalism and indeed by Communism and Socialism and the question will be clarified.
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Enlightening. Thanks.
Yep, it's essential to define your terms.
One more (that I plan, anyway) thing to ponder. "Nazi" is the English term used for the NSDAP, the National
Socialist German
Workers' Party. With them having both "socialist" and "workers'" in the name, you would think that it was a
communist party, if you didn't know any better!
Of course, you couldn't trust anything that Hitler or Stalin said. Words had no inherent meaning for them. They were things to be manipulated to conceal and obfuscate the reality of things, to accomplish desired results.
For most of the people of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia (one major exception, that I think of right off hand, being the peasant farmers who faced forced collectivization of their farms), there was little difference between them in the most important aspects of their daily lives. Under both systems the people faced tyranny, with the incumbent fear and loss of freedoms.
Is everyone still awake? ha