Nazism and socialism
Nazism and socialism have variously been seen as integrally related and utterly distinct.
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[edit] Founder's words
Nazism's founder and chief advocate the late Adolf Hitler, called himself "a socialist":
I am a Socialist, and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow. . . . What you understand by Socialism is nothing more than Marxism. --Hitler, spoken to Otto Strasser, Berlin, May 21, 1930 - Alan Bullock, Hitler: a Study in Tyranny, pp.156-7
[edit] Analysis of similarities
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises wrote: {{quote|There are two patterns for the realization of socialism. The first pattern (we may call it the Lenin or Russian pattern) . . . . the second pattern (we may call it the Hindenburg or German Pattern) nominally and seemingly preserves private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary markets, prices, wages, and interest rates. There are, however, no longer entrepreneurs, but only shop managers … bound to obey unconditionally the orders issued by government.
Nazi control of business retained a diminished investment profit-incentive, controlled with economic regulation concording a company’s functioning with the Reich’s national production requirements.
[edit] Analysis of differences
The Nazi war economy was a mixed economy of free-market and central-planning practices In socialism, the state owns the means of production, but in Nazi Germany, capitalists still owned the means of production.
Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner stated that despite state control, business had much production and investment planning freedom.
Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, white supremacist South Africa, and most of the almost-too-many-to-count military dictatorships of this century were capitalist societies.
