The Kiev regime is giving nazism a bad name....
I am not trying to provoke you when I ask if you know what National Socialism really is?
Beyond the use of the term ‘Nazi’ as a schoolyard epithet these days National Socialism was a government and economic system. It is based in dirigisme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigisme
“Dirigiste policies often include indicative planning, state-directed investment, and the use of market instruments (taxes and subsidies) to incentivize market entities to fulfill state economic objectives.”
The Wiki on the topic is otherwise laughable for ignoring the fact that the first regime to fully employ dirigisme was that of Adolf Hitler.
Dirigisme is currently in use in Russia with the central government either directly controlling private industry or else partnering with it. It’s also very much a part of current US economic and government practice with private industry being micromanaged by government to accomplish government goals such as solar power, electric vehicles, DEI policies, and etc.
Oddly, with Ukraine’s domestic production dispersed into cottage industries there isn’t much evidence of dirigisme present in Ukraine. Ergo, they’re not a ‘Nazi’ regime without this critical component of National Socialism.
Can they be repressive? Sure they can. So can anyone else.
My point is that it gets old hearing people toss around the tropes of ‘Nazi’ and ‘Nazism’ as an epithet.
See, the problem here is when everyone you don’t like you call ‘Nazi’ then what do you call actual Nazis?
The misuse of the term diminishes the meaning and impact of the term.
Thanks for reading.