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Mal_Fet posted...

Where does the article say only that one guy believes Nazis were of the left?

that's not what I said, either

Nevertheless, apart from Mises and his readers, practically no one thinks of Nazi Germany as a socialist state. It is far more common to believe that it represented a form of capitalism, which is what the Communists and all other Marxists have claimed.

Mal_Fet posted...

It absolutely does.

For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.

there's a big difference between saying that these firms are under direct government control by the nazis, and that they were 'essentially' under control of the nazis because of wage and price controls

do you not see that distinction between things run by politburo and things run privately with regulations on prices?

Mal_Fet posted...

So they continued and embraced socialist policies, therefore they weren't socialist?

Incidentally, none of this is to suggest that price controls were the cause of the reign of terror instituted by the Nazis. The Nazis began their reign of terror well before the enactment of price controls. As a result, they enacted price controls in an environment ready made for their enforcement.

no, the existence of price controls is what makes them socialist apart from having a totalitarian regime. you don't even seem to have read your material thoroughly
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